Posted on 10/27/2011 3:56:45 PM PDT by GSWarrior
On Monday night, ghosts, goblins, Angry Birds, Lady Gagas and pirates will be going door to door, looking for treats.
It’s Halloween and, in Connecticut and beyond, the trick or treating happens on Oct. 31. It does not matter if that falls on a Monday, Thursday or Friday.
But a Connecticut lawmaker wants to change that.
State Rep. Tim Larson, D-East Hartford and South Windsor, wants the state to designate Halloween as the last Saturday in October in Connecticut.
“Halloween is a fun night for the whole family, but not so much when you have to race home from work, get the kids ready for trick or treating, welcome the neighborhood children, and then try to get everyone to bed for an early school and work morning,” Larson said in a news release.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcconnecticut.com ...
-PJ
Actually it makes sense. Its not really an important holiday but kids enjoy it so it should be on a certain day of the week rather than a certain date.
I say go for it if it doesn’t cost anything.
It would still hold the honors as the stupidest holiday, though.
It’s a bad idea as far as I’m concerned. I hope they egg the crap out of his house on October 30th.
Halloween isn’t a real holiday, unlike Independence Day.
Haven’t these guys anything better ro do? they are governming far below their pay scale!
do we celebrate Memorial Day on the true date of Memorial Day??
Heck no! I don’t want those little monsters ringing my doorbell at 11 PM on Saturday night. Hey, if it falls on a Monday that’s great. Anyone shows up at my house after 8, I egg them!
What next? Move Christmas?
Good Lord, do we really need legislation for this?
If people want to trick or treat on the last Saturday of Oct., let them do so. It can become a tradition, just like Halloween being on the 31st did.
If not, leave it alone. Sheesh.
LOL!
Oh yeah? You sound like some sort of pagan Wiccan!
; )
I can’t sacrifice the goats if it isn’t Oct 31st. :)
He wants the state to "designate" Saturday as Halloween. Not sure if this is legislation.
The original Decoration Day of May 1?
The traditional Memorial Day on May 30?
-PJ
I would think it would cause kiddos to ring doorbells both on the designated Saturday AND on October 31.
Which is reason enough for me to be against the whole idea.
It’s been tried. What you end up with is trick-or-treaters on both the real night and the fake one.
I remember school the day after Halloween. Kids were a mess, including me. No big deal.
The states can do as they want, but where does government get the idea they can legislate about the unofficial practice of trick-or-treating? My town has put out an edict-like statement (so, its not a bylaw), that Halloween “will begin at 6:00 pm until 8:00 pm on Monday”. Seems to me it starts the moment that a parent walks up with their 5 year old goblin, and ends when I’ve had my fill of 18-yo teenangels, and turn off my lights - perhaps 9 or 9:30.
Could someone please tell Tim Larson to grow up.
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