Halloween 2007
Can’t believe it’s another Halloween already. That means it’s pretty much Thanksgiving which means it’ll be Christmas before I know it which means a Christmas break that’ll be over soon as it starts making it 2008. 2008? What happened to 1958? Y’know, I remember when Bic pens were the latest thing. A seven transistor radio that ran on one of those new 9 volt batteries was cutting edge. There was no FM, much less stereo. Color TV was a curiosity. Sometimes the technological advances of humankind seem breathtaking until I stop to think — over 100 years and we’re still getting around on internal combustion engines.
We had a few Trick’r’Treaters; maybe a couple dozen. It was a good night for it. No rain, not cold or windy. One nice thing this year was no teenagers. I never understood teenagers humiliating themselves going around in some sort of thrown together non-costume such as “bum” or “homeless person” ringing doorbells and saying “Trick or Treat!” just like the cute little 4-year-old that was just here.
Becky did some cool decorating! I couldn’t believe she hauled a real hay bale up onto the porch all by herself. Yeah, she did all that before I got home from work.
I think the best part about Halloween, now that the kids are grown, is not having to sort through a bunch of candy trying to spot evidence of tampering with the kids fidgeting like “c’mon you guys, gimme!” Hey, a candy bar sounds good right about now!
kim says:
I sure do remember being a bit impatient with the candy sorting. I think I ate maybe 3 pieces of candy this year. I didn’t even put any out for the trick-or-treaters in my neighborhood. I just learned tonight that “trick or treating” came about during the Depression. Apparently some time before that, in the middle ages, kids got out of control and would end up pillaging houses and get very destructive on All Hallow’s Eve. But come the time of the Depression people were like, hey we’re bad enough as it is, just give out candy. Turns out it took America by storm and the only other thing that caught on in this country as much as Trick-or-Treating is “Don’t be a litterbug.”