Halloween

[queerbychoice]

This is my fourth Halloween living on my own, and I just now finally got my first trick or treaters ever.

At last I've been initiated into adulthood. I'd sure been kept waiting long enough.

They should have taken more candy though. I have three Halloweens of completely wasted candy-buying behind me and they owe me some major candy consumption this year.

You are all hereby invited to come over for candy.

Comments

[piercememildred.livejournal.com]

If you have Reese's peanut butter cups, I'm there.

:D

[butterickcole.livejournal.com]

This was my first and last year trick or treating.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

Alas, I do not! Tell you what though: if you can get yourself transportation to Sacramento, I promise to drive to the store and buy you a whole bag of them. :)

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

yes, you were deprived of the privilege!

actually of course there are many different initiations into adulthood; this is just one for which i had been waiting a frustratingly long time. however, i do not wish to count sex among my many initiations into adulthood. sex is something else in itself - something to be initiated into, rather than just a mode of getting initiated into something else.

and you are a good initiator. you should come initiate me into more things. i still have lots of candy left, if you would be so kind as to hitchhike here on the nearest high-speed flying carpet. and hey, if you show up, i'm more than willing to offer plenty more than candy, too!

i only got five trick or treaters total, in two groups. i placed no limit on how much candy the first group could take, but they were frugal and only took one each, so when the second group came i specifically announced, "take as many as you want!" but the oldest one (a ballerina around eight years old) still only took one, and the youngest one (a boy maybe five years old, in a costume which did not look like anything in particular at all to me) took two and then asked me, "may i please have another one?" yes, i said you could have as many as you want! what's wrong with children these days? why are they all so sadly un-greedy? take them all, little boy, stuff yourself, feel free! they left me with a bowlful barely dented by their meager selections. perhaps i should resort to walking out to the street and standing around waving candy at people like a beggar in reverse.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

I think there is a lot more fear at Halloween (and at other ties too) for children these days than there was when any of us were younger. I'm not at all certain why Halloween in particular has become such as focus of fear other than myths of poisoned candy.

However, in general kids today have a greater fear of strangers (which likely helped produce the level of politeness you saw) because most parents teach them to be afraid of strangers because of mostly illusory fears of kidnapping by strangers and similar unlikely but highly media visible crimes.

[piercememildred.livejournal.com]

Hrmm, I'll see what I can do. Or -- I could buy a bag, eat a few and think of you...

Mmmrr, smooth chocolate-peanut-buttery goodness.

[transliberation.livejournal.com]

Yay, I want some candy Gayle! I will give
you free access to all my books and green
tea stash in exchange. ;-)

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

Well, you can keep the green tea; I don't drink tea. But I'm sure you have excellent books, so this sounds like a good deal.