I did my grocery shopping last night at the local Wal Mart here in town. As hubby and I whizzed past the Halloween aisle on the way to the geezer aisle...vitamins, laxatives, tweezers for hairs that grow out of the most unwanted places...I noticed the total decimation.
There was nothing left. Candy, gone. Decorations, gone. Costumes, gone. All bought up, ready to be worn while begging for what will amount to more candy than one child should consume in a year. There were a few forlorn shoppers, standing motionless on an aisle that now holds twinkling Christmas lights.
They didn't know how to go home and face the music...some little person was going to be dissappointed
because they didn't get a Spartan helmet. Whoa be, to the bearer of those bad tidings.
I worked a Halloween carnival for the subdivision where three of my grandchildren live. There were little princesses, Dorothys, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dums, cowboys, Marios, and zombies...lots of zombies.
Halloween is serious business for children. It is not a time for adults to be procrastinating, messing around with adult stuff like work, paying bills and such nonsense. Get a grip adults...IT IS HALLOWEEN.
My favorites are the babies in costume. For me, that means anybody under three. Mom still has control of the costume situation, unless her kid is one of the mutants from Toddlers and Tiaras. They are all adorable, squirming bits of paint, hair decorations and candy goo. I love 'em, even the really sticky ones!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
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