Halloween

Posted by stephen on Monday, 31st October, 2005 @ 20:43

What's happened this year? Ever since I left home, over five years ago now, I've never had a trick or treater knock on my door. And now, in my third Halloween in this house, I get three lots in one evening!

As I'm trying to be healthy at the moment, I had no sweets or anything around to give them. And I sure as hell won't be giving the little sods any money. What have they done to deserve it except extorted their parents out of the money for a tacky plastic costume?

Also, doesn't it seem a little worrying that we continually, with good reason, encourage children not to accept sweets from strangers, indeed, not even to talk to them. Yet on this night, small children are encouraged to actively seek out strangers and take sweets from them!

I'm just really not getting the spirit of this particular festival. I'm just glad I live in Britain, I can imagine how much worse this would be in the US.