Halloween Good & Bad
Halloween is now less than a week away. I like this holiday a lot more since we have had kids. I read somewhere that this is the fastest growing holiday in the United States… I forget how they were measuring it, but somehow they came up with numbers that proved this to be the case. I love seeing the kids dressed up coming to the door getting excited when they see the bowl of candy they get to pick from…from the really little ones that are dressed in Pooh Bear suits being pulled by the Moms and Dads in Fisher Price wagons down the street to the elementary school kids that really believe, in their outfits, that they are Power Rangers, Princesses and Pirates…
The older kids kind of piss me off though when they come to the door. I have an issue with giving them candy. I do so reluctantly without much of a comment to them. I only give them one candy bar also. I kind of have a personal feeling that they are in someway, somehow taking us for a ride – they are a bit too old for this. I dunno know why.
I also get real creeped out by adults that dress up and start to role play their characters. Why do you need a costume? Why are you role playing so seriously? What is going on in your head on a regular basis that this ‘role’ is allowed to come out of its pandora’s box today? Stay away from my wife and kids, okay…get the *#&^& out of my office… Are you stalking me? You are not Spider Man, Steve, you are drunk and you cannot climb that wall, idiot….
Then the next day is fun, because all the people that don’t want the leftover candy bring it into the office. I’m no chocoholic (in fact, I don’t eat a lot of candy), but I do like a bite sized Snickers, etc…just perfect for my tastes and wants for about a week.
Of course, then you run into the joker who was the drunk Spider Man the night before and now he’s just plain ol’ ‘I take my finance job way too serious’ Steve asking for a report…and you still see drunk Spider Man. That’s a hard transition the next day, you know?
Its kind of like the promiscuous office worker who gets sloppy drunk at the Holiday Party and starts telling you how much she likes Joe from HR, likes him a lot, even though he is with his wife at the party…same thing, hard to transition the following Monday at work from sloppy drunk to take me serious legal aide.
As it stands, Maya is going to be a princess, a Disney Princess, and she has like, 18, different Disney Princess dress up outfits, and she hasn’t picked one as her final yet…and Demetrius is going to be SuperMan. He’s got one of those dress up outfits that have the fake muscles…very nice!
He’s had a hard time keeping his costumes on (with his sensory issues, masks, etc…are hard for him), and he really doesn’t seem to get Halloween (we all know a lot about it scares him)…he doesn’t get excited about the candy…but he does get real excited about watching the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown…so if he had his way he’d just rather stay home and watch Halloween specials. HOWEVER, we are hoping this year, since he has finally taken a liking to sweets, will be a bit different with the free candy. We’ll see.
Except at the adult, drunk Spider Man’s house. He could get scared going over there, I think. Daddy does for him. ☺
