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October 31, 2004

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween to all! Kinda...

Halloween just isn't the same event that it was when I was young. I've overheard from many different sources how frustrating Halloween is these days, which I agree with:

1. Each city or township decides which day Halloween will OFFICIALLY be observed. This year, some places chose to do Halloween on Saturday instead of Sunday. Why this is is just beyond me. When I was little, Halloween was always on Halloween. I actually saw my brother pondering yesterday if it was the night to go trick-or-treating or not on Saturday.

2. Trick-or-treating hours used to be unlimited when I was a kid. You went until you couldn't go any longer. I recall being out till past 10pm still collecting goodies from neighborhoods that weren't even my own. Today, children are assigned a designated time, usually about 4 hours during daylight, to do all of their candy grabbing. Talk about something being absolutely no fun anymore ...

3. There's never any really good Halloween specials on TV anymore. It used to be that right after trick-or-treating, the kids could come in and watch some great Halloween specials while going through their loot. These days, it seems that the specials air days beforehand and never really get into the spirit of Halloween as is. When I was younger, I would come in after an exhausting night of candy collecting and turn on Disney to watch their "scary" cartoons.

... I guess I still wish the good ol' days were here. I'm sure I'm not alone in this wishful thinking either.

Posted by ed at October 31, 2004 04:21 PM

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