Posted on 10/31/2016 5:14:26 PM PDT by golux
Good evening FRiends. Here are mine:
It is October 31 and I sit, periodically rising to open the door for people who come to my house begging for candy.
Some of the people are dressed in an interesting fashion. I still take great delight in the artistic side of the costumes, including those of my kids: papier-mache, transformed linens, custom masks, paint... It remains a leisurely, artsy tradition. I've "made it."
I feel sorry for the kids forced to wear cheap store-bought costumes: their parents are maybe too busy, work too hard, are too poor to take the time the rich parents take. The kids see it. I remember all the pageants I attended in stinking plastic Spider-Man get-ups from the five and dime. I remember mulling about feeling foolish.
Some of the adults look pleasant enough. The children, generally, look miserable: exhausted, pressed to beg again and again for sugar. The babies seem utterly terrified. Some of them seemingly imprinting on pools of blood.
There is a seething misery about this night. I feel it.
Teens will come later, expecting something – anything - unless I turn out all the lights. The teens do away with "Trick or Treat," they simply groan and shuffle. A night of beggars celebrating unholy things. A night to teach children to act out a shameless, foolish, meaningless routine.
Am I a Grinch? I love the Holidays. I adore Purim and Hanukkah, I love Easter: though I am not a Christian the bells announcing the Resurrection of your Lord fill me with joy as I happily remember praying, as a boy, with my Christian friends. Christmas? Who cannot love Christmas. Heck, I even love Kwanzaa as it’s founder’s criminality reminds us of the hilariously transparent lie of “black nationalism,” the Alex Haley hoax, etc.
But – Halloween is empty. Plastic, shameful, inhuman, and worst of all, perhaps, a little sad: a whole holiday manufactured by Chinese children, importers, maybe Hallmark...
Ah, there's the doorbell.
golux
Halloween is my birthday too , Karoo. It saddens me to see all the hard core Christians claim it’s evil and of pagan origins, but they have no problem with the pagan origins of Christmas. :-)
Such an iconic photo. She was a genius.
My kid is 5. I made her return to several houses after the fact in order to say Thank You. I noticed that folks liked that. It was a welcome respite from the creeping mexi-vans that pull up and excrete rude illegal children.
I suppose I have turned into one of those cranky oldsters. Some kids, and they definitely are children of privilege, would run up to the porch, grabbing at the bowl of candy in my hands, and demanding that they be allowed to pick. These children were probably around ten or eleven. I looked at them, pulling the bowl closer to me, and said firmly no. I gave their friend who stood off saying nothing and looking chagrined twice as much as ordinary. I made the two rude ones wait through three other sets of children and finally gave them the smallest pieces I had. I told them next time they should learn some manners.
The youngster standing to the side? Thanked me and left his cohorts behind
I’m not sure how I would react to your situation.....a van full of children not from my neighborhoods? Maybe I pull out a pack of hard sour balls and give one to each
Thank you for sharing and for your concern for souls. Praying for the man’s deliverance.
The Halloween mexi-van is so prevalent it has become a cultural stereotype, although I just saw my first black family doing it last night.
The black mom in the obviously leased SUV was driving around our hood and pointing her excretions to the houses with the most candy. I know this because I sensed a winning tactic and we thus followed them.
Another observation: The “Scream” mask is a big hit with black people. I do not know why. I saw several. They were all black youths.
All the kids I got last night were having fun. You just live in a sad neighborhood.
There was some of that in California before I left. People turned off their porch lights early
Some folks just want everyone else to give em free stuff
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