I am like you Bill not caring for the dark side of Halloween. Working retail ruined Christmas for me, and now being away from it the anticipation of Christmas is coming back.
The one holiday overlooked is Thanksgiving. The one that points to thanking God and yet since there is not commercial value outside of selling a turkey it gets forgotten accept for football games and eating good food.
Posts from ShortGrub in thread „It's Halloween“
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I totally agree, it seems to have got out of hand in the UK,
with constant hassle at the door.
Also over here, in some towns and cities, is the underlying threat of intimidation or damage,
to property or vehicles if you don't play along!!It has been that way in America since I was little in the 60's. I took part in the mischief night the night before halloween. If someone did not give candy they got the max damage. Nothing like lighting manure in a paper bag on the front stoop and seeing the person come out the door and stomp on the bag.
Even though I personally do not agree with halloween, we do hand out candy to the kids. This way we get to at least know the neighbors by sight if not by name. Our Church does like yours Lt. Brannigan and has a harvest party. -
Oh, I forgot, baby boomers have no idea what an outhouse is. :whatchutalkingabout
You don't grow up around the Amish and not know what an outhouse is. We would go camping at times during Halloween and we would stake out the girls bathrooms. They were non flush, pit bathrooms, with no electricity. We would rig up black wire around the toilet that would make the person sitting think an animal was in the bathroom with them. They would scream.
The next day all us lads were lined up by the men and spoken too for scaring the ladies. It was all show for our Dads all asked how we did it. -
My Wife hands the candy out.
Lucky, if people in my neighborhood turned their lights out, we would egg their house, throw corn, and light a bag full of cow dung on their top step. They would come out and stomp the bag and get cow dung all over their shoes. Odd the next year they handed out candy.
We were bad as older kids. We would walk behind smaller kids and cut their bags and wait for the candy to fall out.
My penance is to give out really good candy now.:teeth_smile:
