All indications were that Halloween is no big deal here.  I saw a few signs up for activities and heard about a few parties, but it sounded like it was mostly ex-pat family-type stuff.  I had just planned on staying in tonight to finish up grading mid-term exams (whee hoo!), but I ended up walking over to the grocery store to pick up a few things.  I noticed more people on the streets and a few kids in costumes walking around, but nothing too crazy.  My first indication that something was up was in the store, when some lady was yelling because they had no eggs to sell her.  I’ve never seen anything less than crates and crates of eggs stacked along the floors in one section of the store, and some guy told me they put them in the back and weren’t selling any more tonight.  Ok.  As I was checking out a whole crowd of people, employees and customers, came running into the store screaming, and I could here the pap-pap-pap of a dozen eggs smashing into the storefront.  So of course I went out to see what was going on.  I was only in the store for maybe 5 minutes, and suddenly the streets are filled with mobs of kids running around with handfulls of eggs and tomatoes and whatever might splat when they threw it.  Exciting!  I hung around for a bit to watch the commotion, and ran into one of my students.  He said the real action was up the street, so I let him lead the way.  Turns out Egyptian kids put Americans to shame with their Halloween shenanigans.  Eggs were flying everywhere.  And everyone was having a good time.  Cops were confiscating eggs, then turning around and tossing them right back.  My own bags were searched a half-dozen times, but I guess they weren’t too interested in my frozen corn and bottles of hot sauce, though I’m pretty sure my yogurt could have made for a fun toss.  Passing cars were a favorite target, and the only ones spared were those already covered in sticky yellow goo.  A short, skinny little Arabic Mr. T walked by and everyone laughed and yelled “Rocky III”.  Amazing!  My student disappeared and came back with eggs for all.  So of course I obliged and let mine fly alongside theirs into a distant crowd, the offensive meeting equally with groans of dismay on one side of the street and hoots of delight on the other.  I made it out unscathed.