October 30, 2009
They littered the sidewalks today. Little people- the ones not enough for first grade, and yet they were here on BCC campus. They weren’t here just for the heck of it- they were looking for something. CANDY! They had their pumpkin buckets and their costumes of fairies, insects and other things. I must admit, they were cuter than anything I have seen on this campus before.
They were practicing for tomorrow. Ahhh yes, tomorrow. October 31, 2009: the day of all Hallows Eve. The night that many suggest was created by the candy companies. The night of witches and ghosts, candy collecting and spooky doorsteps, scare you out-of-you-seat movies and bubbly pots and creaky doors music.
On one hand, it is the night that parents with young ones have to spend an hour dressing up their kids and painting their faces. Arranging a time to take them here, there and everywhere to show off their costumes and then up and down the streets of the local neighborhood… early so that when you get home when them, it is still light enough outside so that they can rummage through their new treasure before bed time.
One the other hand, it is a night where teens go on the attack because they are too old to trick-or-treat and too young for the cool Halloween parties. So they buy things like eggs, toilet paper and whip cream to decorate places that could land them with a ticket or with new bracelets and a vacation in jail.
Then there are those parties I mentioned. The parties where all the “older kids” dress up and dance to music all night long, then fall asleep because they just can handle being up that late, or because all the alcohol they consumed is suddenly taking them to a comatose state.
Anyway you shake it; Halloween can be a fun time- whether or not it is just a candy company conspiracy date.
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