Oh yeah. Halloween. One of my favorite childhood holidays. It was one of those strange customs where you get to dress up in funny costumes and your neighbors give out free things. The whole concept seemed awfully alkward, or at least a bit strange especially in this day and time, where we don’t know our neighbors. Parents always tell you don’t take candy from a stranger, yet on Halloween it seems ok to take candy from your neighbor who you barely know.
I think parents were afraid of drug dealers who might put drugs in candy. I never exactly heard of anything like that happening. At least not in Halloween candy. My parents always warned me not to go to certain houses in our neighborhood because of this fear.
So ironically it was fear that has downgraded Halloween to a shell of what it once was. That and people who equate Halloween as some devil’s holiday. In reality you can make anything evil. Christmas, if taken the wrong way…say being greedy for more and more presents…could be made evil.
I really liked Halloween, but I never really had a cool costume. Once I was a ghost. Another time it was one of those lame commercial Snoopy costumes. I really should have started planning for Halloween at least a month before, and not the day before. Then there were always those teachers who would assign a load of homework on Halloween. Shame on them.