Friday, October 31, 2003

Happy Holloween!, Shoppers, this is the 2nd busiest shopping day of the year, who would figure? The Celtics, 2000 years ago?, A good article on the origons of Halloween here on Motimes homepage. I remember me and my sisters , roaming the neighborhood , going house to house, for treats. I remember some would ask for a "trick" , we would do cart-wheels, and other acrobatic tricks. I remember "big" candy bars, cookies and apples got tossed out. Candy corn , yuk, those orange and black wrapped peanut butter chewy candies. Alot of homemade costumes, huge grocery sacks full of candies. Back in my day, Mom would bring home a case of bottled soda-pop, really weird off brands, like "Bubble-Up", "Kickapoo Joy Juice". That case of soda, would have to last at least 2 weeks , in a family with 4 kids. Mom would bring home burgers and fries, from McDonalds, or Griffs, It was a rare treat! Candy forget about it, We had candy on Halloween and Christmas, that was it, and Christmas, it was just those hard candies, with usually a sugary jellie inside. A Butterfinger, Milk-Duds, or Snickers, only on Halloween. My sister would , keep some of her candy, all the way to thru December. My candy got ate up within a couple of days. I went to a 7-11 yesterday, to get gas, I went inside, to use the bathroom, and noticed that 99.9 % of everything inside is pure junk that nobody needs, I saw a 4 year old unwrapping a huge sucker, and thought how spoiled American children have become, what a waste of money people spend in the shops that line the streets of every neighborhood. I say it's good to have fun and go to parties, a good reason to go out and dress up wild. I won't be giving out candy, this is not what kids need , they need to go out to a party, then stay home and watch a scary movie!

posted by txpoollover, October 31, 2003 07:02 | link | comments (1)