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Nov. 1st, 2003 09:44 amOkay, this is such an amusing idea I need to go with it too.
A Letter To The President
( this got political; sorry. You can skip it if you want )
I wasn't sure how many trick-or-treaters we were going to get last night--we wound up getting maybe twenty in little trickles of twos and threes. One interesting demographic was that nearly all of them arrived by car. Okay, New Market is a small and spread out town, but it makes me wonder if more and more people are using their cars for *every* bit of travel.
Some of the kids arrived by bike (about 4). Most of these were not wearing costumes. I gave them some candy anyway, after first asking them what they were going as... but maybe next year I won't. I feel kind of cheated. I give out candy--that's my part of the deal as a grownup. But the kids' part of the deal is that they wear costumes. If you can't afford to buy one, it's perfectly okay with me to make a mask out of construction paper and string and pin a towel around your neck---but these kids didn't even *try*.
Hmpf.
A Letter To The President
( this got political; sorry. You can skip it if you want )
I wasn't sure how many trick-or-treaters we were going to get last night--we wound up getting maybe twenty in little trickles of twos and threes. One interesting demographic was that nearly all of them arrived by car. Okay, New Market is a small and spread out town, but it makes me wonder if more and more people are using their cars for *every* bit of travel.
Some of the kids arrived by bike (about 4). Most of these were not wearing costumes. I gave them some candy anyway, after first asking them what they were going as... but maybe next year I won't. I feel kind of cheated. I give out candy--that's my part of the deal as a grownup. But the kids' part of the deal is that they wear costumes. If you can't afford to buy one, it's perfectly okay with me to make a mask out of construction paper and string and pin a towel around your neck---but these kids didn't even *try*.
Hmpf.
