I wouldn’t have bothered, but a new family with 4 kids moved in on the block, and I wanted to be prepared.
No one other than the parkers came down the street.
Really a major bummer for those of us who remember Halloween.
]]>I didn’t bother buying candy. I already knew the score. If someone had actually knocked, I would have gone over to the pantry and given them a few Powerbars left over from my last hiking trip, but never had to resort to that…
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The same thing happened in San Diego, but there I could off load the candy on a friend of a friend who went hunting in the Mexican interior to distribution to kids in the little colonias in the middle of nowhere. Here my neighbor’s kids have too much candy from their grandparents, and there is no one to give it to, so I have to eat it.
It isn’t a lot, and it lasts a long time, but I really don’t like packaged candy beyond Cadbury Fruit & Nut bars, and I am not going to risk one of those on little kids.
I have a neighbor with high hopes who decorates his half of the duplex every year, but no takers.
All part of our lost childhood, Badtux. I feel bad for the Mighty Fang – it is sort of his holiday.
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That sounds like Jehovah Witnesses, Steve, as I know that is their position on holidays, especially ignoring Christmas, although it was also the position of the “Pilgrim Fathers” who fined people for celebrating Christmas, as they felt it was really a pagan holiday.
We used to have trick or treaters, Kryten, then the tax-free, for-profit media complex down the block started a “harvest festival” to make even more money from their flock, so we just get a parking problem.
]]>One conservative Christian I know, a decent guy who is for the most part not a nut-case, celebrates only Easter among holidays. His kids are long since grown, and don’t seem too personally distorted, but it must have been a joyless NODWISH season around that household when they were young. And I don’t even want to think about Halloween there.
Thanks for the clock reminder. I remembered a few times, but I forgot as many times as I remembered.
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