Halloween

I'm writing this because Halloween is a little less than a week away and I thought it might be good to write about it while I was thinking of it. Currently I'm a self declared Halloween Scrooge. I just don't like all of the haunting and tricking that comes with the treating. I do like the treating but, for adults, the treats seem to take a back seat to the other less tasteful aspects of this late October celebration. Kids, on the other hand, seem to accentuate the good part. They dress up because it is fun to pretend, not because they want to live some alter ego for a day or have an excuse to look and act silly. Kids view the doorstep treat as a treasure, not some sort of right. Some little kids even cry when they see a scary face...now there's a novel idea.

I once was a little kid. I have pictures of Be Nimble the ghost, Be Nimble the cowboy, Be Nimble the construction worker, and Be Nimble the red indian (See a couple below). When I was little I would skip the "scary" houses. I carried a sandwich size brown paper bag, not a pillow case. I would always bring my candy home and then sort and count it. Usually I would load it back into my bag and save it. It usually lasted the whole year. When my little sisters came along I would trade candy with them so that I could have more of my favorites. I liked to share my stash with special visitors. I had fun being a ghost, a cowboy, a construction worker, and an indian for a day. If you ask me, that is the way Halloween should be. People need to grow up and be something for real instead of reverting to a one-day-per-year display of true character.