Halloween

And so comes the time of year yet again where small children dress up as ghouls in order to extract sweets and money from innocent home owners under the treat of being egged or worse should they not come up with the goodies.

I remember when I was a child no house was off limits, we went to all of them in our village without discretion leaving no door unknocked and no pathway untrodden - we didn't look for signs to see if the inhabitants were Halloween goers or not, it didn't matter if the lights were on or off, or if they had a pumpkin glowing in the window or a witch dangling from the porch we trick or treated everyone who had a pulse.

So imagine my surprise, and Phil's astonishment when we hear oncoming trick or treaters who having just stung our neighbours walk straight past our house suggesting that "it wasn't even bothering with"!!! Cheeky monkeys! Ok, so we don't have anything particularly halloweeny and inviting adorning the house, but surely we worth looting, what's the matter with the little punks!

If anything, I'm a bit pissed that I'd gone to the hassle of buying sweets for the little shitzers and it now appears that we're not good enough! Tisk! So with that in mind, and a huge bowl of calories in hand we string up some pumpkin lights I'd bought last year and not used.

My God, it was like opening the gates to hell, quite literally. We had non-stop trick or treaters and they were even queuing up the path way at one point.

So it seems that the rules of trick or treating have changed since I last donned my black bin bag and cardboard witch hat in the pursuit of ill gotten gains - modern halloweeners have developed an unwritten code that if the house has no inkling of devilish treats they give it a miss....

Ah well, makes you wonder where the next generation of risk takers and profiteers is going to come from...

Posted by Abi on the October 31, 2005 10:32 PM

JOn at November 1, 2005 1:59 PM