It Works Both Ways?
As I was skimming the internet this morning, I ran across a link to this site [Link] on one of the blogs I read regularly. [1] The site is an attempt to correlate what candy one dispenses on All Hallows Eve and ones nature or temperament or some such.
I think the site is supposed to be humorous but since I seem to have a rather different idea of what is humorous compared to some bogs, I shall dispense with any acclamations of whether I consider the site to actually be humorous or not.
What I wanted to comment on anyway was taking a bit of surprise that anyone actually dispenses candy from their residence any more? Oh, I know there are all those hideous MalWart commercials on the audiovisual viewer, but then that is MalWart and the hideous is redundant. But I had thought that between the paranoiacs of razor blades and the fanatics of organized religion that the old custom, at least in the Yankee republic, of traipsing house to house to emptily demand a candy donative in lieu of some act of sabotage (terrorism?) had been replaced by healthy-social-activity-supervised-by-responsible-and-trustworthy-adults.
You know, good wholesome religious fun-and-games with a dollop of X-Rayed and sanctified candy, preferably sugarless. To alleviate the threat of Satan and Sadist, if that is not also redundant.
I know I have not had candy seekers in about a decade, although that may have been a result of several factors, such as my being on business travel over Halloween for much of the early segment of that period – there was this one conference that seemed to always want to meet over Halloween, which I am not sure says something about the mental aberrations of the organizers or the members of the organization – and the squirrel protect laser grid I installed a few years ago that does a wonderful job on large birds and cats but does get a bit confused by clumps of people.
Although FD SCP does claim that it was the candy we handed out. I would go out the day after Halloween and buy up remnant candy and save it for a year to hand out. And after all, the way candy is made today that year, less a day, of moldering has no effect on the candy.
[1] Yes, I know I usually cite the originating site but that has gotten a bit sticky the last few times and in the interest of not sharing the wrath of bogs with good folk, I am going to be a bit less catholic in my citations.
