This may sound strange. I don't like Halloween. I used to. I used to carve pumpkins and stay by the front door to give out candy and admire costumes.
But about 6 years ago, no kids came to the door (or my neighbor's) and after a couple years of that, I just stopped trying. I don't eat candy, so I had to throw it away after the holiday. I started just ignoring Halloween.
To avoid an odd single trick-or-treater disturbing the evening meal, I started just blacking out the windows and turning the room lights off to signal I wasn't participating.
Until THIS year! I read in the local newspaper that sex offenders in many places were REQUIRED to do what I was doing. Turn out the lights, not give out candy... Oh GREAT, if I DON'T give out candy and participate, I will be viewed as a sex offender by some neighbor, and you know how rumors spread...
I batted that back and forth all day in my head, and I hate to say that I caved!
I worry about rumors. I'm an aging (61) single guy; the modern version of aging females considered witches in the older days. So I rushed out to buy candy, kept all the house lights on, ate dinner early, and waited for trick-or-treaters. None came. Well, the cats were happy, they HATE the doorbell!
And you know what I noticed at prime trick-or-treating time? Half the houses on my street were dark! Either I live in a very BAD neighborhood, or THEY weren't worried about appearances... So a good lesson about appearances.
Now WHAT do I do with a year's supply of Hershey Hugs...?
2 comments:
LOL I didn't even think about what it might look like if all the lights were out...we have the same requirements for sex offenders here. But we get so few kids that the last couple of years we've turned the lights out and gone to Denny's for dinner.
Send me the candy ;)
Food pantry and don't worry about this next year. Lots of people don't participate.
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