I have decided that how you spend Halloween is determined by your age.
As a young child you enjoy coming up with costumes and dragging your parents (read: costumed Dad) around the neighborhood with you. You return home, dump your candy on the living room floor and start trading with your younger siblings. You always end up with the choicest candy (and the most....having slyly placed your pile in close enough proximity to allow stray candy from your siblings pile to defect to yours). This strategy is essential because your candy becomes quarantined on top of the fridge where your parents "tax it."
As a teenager you still dress up for Halloween in some capacity, maybe for a halloween dance, or for class. But you do not go trick or treating and those who do are censured by adults and chastised by their girlfriends who are at home doing homework instead of traipsing about the neighborhood dressed as the guy from the Crow.
As a college student you use halloween as an excuse to have adult candy (read: drugs, sex, alcohol) and wear the most temperature inappropriate costume as you can without freezing to death.
I think I officially qualify as an adult now. I am currently handing out candy (and watching the gamecast of the world series...so I'm handing out candy and world series scores) to the toddler group who make their rounds at dusk, their parents imploring me to bring my kids by their homes later and cheering on the Giants, thanking me for the update.
2 comments:
Whereas your husband was in the Tri-cities on a business trip, sipping a mediocre microbrew. They just don't make them the same out there. I didn't really miss the Halloween mumbo jumbo, yet was still troubled by the desertification of eastern Washington. Well, anything east of the Cascades that is.
And now to post a comment that actually relates to your blog post:
Just because you are 30 years old, are capable of giving candy to kids and communicating with their parents, does not necessarily make you an adult.
On the other hand, the fact that you are training someone how to advise undergraduate students just might qualify you a little bit. That and the fact that you work with me to manage a mortgage payment. Or maybe that last one just means that we have both sold out to the man... [sigh]
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