Posted on 10/31/2014 8:04:13 PM PDT by Steelfish
THE GROWING HALLOWEEN DEPRAVITY OF GROWNUPS Ray Rice and ISIS costumes are all the rage this year.
By Daniel J. Flynn
Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, and Michael Myers kill kids rushing to become adults. Is it too much to ask of the ghoulish trio to apply their talents toward adults rushing to become kids?
The grownups who have decimated the ranks of trick-or-treaters by aborting 10 million of them in the last decade offer penance for their sins against Halloween by dressing up in place of the missing children. The National Retail Federation estimates that adults will spend $1.4 billion on their own Halloween costumes this year. That’s $1.4 billion that they could have spent on man-cave clubhouses, a huge birthday party, a collection of Care Bears, or some other pastime recently favored by adults.
One way thirtysomething Halloween enthusiasts recoup the money spent on costumes involves not dispensing candy. One can’t help but notice the same couples, dressed in the late night as a sexy Ebola nurse and her doting patient, hiding in their kitchens with the lights out earlier in the evening when the doorbells ring.
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people don’t really become adults anymore....
perpetual adolescence.
So people like to have fun once in a while. It is nobody’s business. If you are not interested in Halloween, don’t participate, but MYOB.
So what? Some would say watching grown men throw a ball around is wasteful or silly too.
I had no interaction with Halloween whatsoever and wasn’t sure if it was yesterday or today until a few minutes ago.
The waitresses at Hooters all had sexy costumes on tonight.
Oh, and the wings were good too. :)
They do. Quite often someone will click on a sports thread just to write “bread and circuses.”
I stopped giving out Halloween candy a few years ago after I saw adults coming for candy with no kids with them.
I was there tonight too. There was this cute Asian young lady dressed up as a cat. Meooooowwwww!
Friends and acquaintances tell me that today, teenagers go trick-or-treating, and many don't even bother to dress up in costumes--they just go door to door in street clothes demanding candy.
Halloween’s a lot of fun in our opinion. Haven’t had a Trick or Treater visit us since we moved here 27 years ago, but Mrs. RQSR, and I always decorate profusely with all sorts of monsters, ghosts, goblins, Witches, and associated boogars just for the fun we have doing it together.
We have Boot Hill with a coffin, skeleton, and grave markers in the front with transom, and gates at the entry. A pirates section with one eyed Willy, and others hovering around the treasure chest. Another graveyard with Zombies coming up out of the ground. An entertainment section with animated singing skeletons of various sorts mixed with animated Werewolf’s, animated Grim Reapers, animated Scarecrows, animated witches, and many other sound, and motion activated properties. Lots of bats, and tarantulas.
It’s fun. Lots of fun, and we don’t have to go anywhere, but around the house to have that fun.
We don’t drink, and we don’t party anymore as we don’t like being around those that do get out of hand, and make a good time less than it should be, so why not? It’s just us, and no harm done.
We have hordes of families out for candy on Halloween. It’s non-stop for about two hours.
I could not believe the number of adults who were wearing costumes. Some of them obviously made them themselves.
Usually, it’s just the mothers who dress up a little, but this year, the number of men in COSTUMES was unreal.
That sounds AWESOME! Are your displays visible from the road?
First Christmas was “monetized” and now it’s Halloween’s turn. I’ve reached the age where I shake my head. However, I’m awfully grateful that, as a child, I never had to see my mom leave the house dressed like a slutty nurse.
I really hate holloween. My favorite is Resurrection Day. The opposite IMO. For those of you who don’t know the holiday, it is generally called Easter.
“I really hate holloween. My favorite is Resurrection Day. The opposite IMO. For those of you who don’t know the holiday, it is generally called Easter.”
I usually pass out Gospel tracks along with the candy.
A couple of items can be seen from the road, and some just barely, but easily 80% of our displays cannot be seen from the road.
I think the only two people other than ourselves that have viewed the entire scene are our Farrier, the UPS, and USPS delivery people. (The UPS driver asked, and received permission to photograph the displays to show his kids.)
The displays aren’t for passersby, of which in this rural area are very few anyway. We do this for us, because it’s fun. (BTW NO Trick or Treaters again last night for the 27th year.)
Someday soon I hope to learn the procedure to post the photographs on our profile page.
Currently we are working on Christmas displays. In the workshop/paint area now are the completed components for a frameless guard shack we will assemble in the back atrium for the six foot Christmas soldier we bought about six years ago.
We are both retired now, so these projects are finally happening.
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