When we were in CVS tonight, we happened to go past the aisle with the Halloween masks.  Tyler saw them, jumped back a little, pointed and said "mommy, are those scary masks going to bite me??"   I explained to him that there were pretend monsters, that they were only made of rubber.  During this explanation I was squeezing the smacking the mask to show him.  From the look on his face you'd have thought I was juggling tarantulas or something.  I said to him, "see, they are just rubber masks, do you want to touch one?"  The look on his face was pretty priceless.  He didn't say a word, but he didn't have to.  His expression very clearly said "not on your freakin' life!"