HAPPY HAL... no one cares.

Bavaria get a public holiday tomorrow for All Hallow's Day. I could happily get on board with Hallows day or hallows eve (Halloween) if we got the day off for it.
 
Scougar said:
Some real happy people on these forums.
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Sometimes i wonder if the time i've spent on these forums made me the way i am (grumpy with a thick hatred for everything involving happiness of others) or whether i came to it myself. I think it's a bit of both but i regret nothing.
 
Yas786 said:
Overreaction much??, were you unloved as a child or did you parents not allow you to go trick or treating??:p
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Lol why would I want to go trick or treating in the first place? :confused:

Wandering around the streets in the cold and dark, to ask strangers for sweets? I'll buy my own sweets thanks.
 
Adam said:
Seems to get bigger every year, loads of houses near mine have been decorated. It's nice for the kids if they have a nice safe route but it's used as an excuse for anti social behavior which is wrong.
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My neighbours have a ghost and a pumpkin illumination in their front window. As far as I know they are 50+ and have no children. This I find a little odd.

The people on the other side of the road are mid 30 to 40 and have some kind of flashing thing in the window and an illuminated pumpkin outside the front door. They have a 4/5 year old girl and a 2/3 year old girl. I'm fine with this.

If people want to participate in this nonsense there should be some kind of code: "an illuminated pumpkin visible about the house = I'm up for people knocking on my door annoying me, otherwise just don't even bother".
 
gillywibble said:
Why?
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Because they're old, have had the chance to have children and didn't. They now want to entice children with their illuminations. :confused:
I just find it a bit odd to go to that trouble at their age.

Having said that they'll be putting their Christmas lights up in a week or two for the next 3 months, so maybe they just like illuminations.

Maybe one day if I'll ask them why.
 
AndrewNR said:
Because they're old, have had the chance to have children and didn't. They now want to entice children with their illuminations. :confused:
I just find it a bit odd to go to that trouble at their age.

Having said that they'll be putting their Christmas lights up in a week or two for the next 3 months, so maybe they just like illuminations.

Maybe one day if I'll ask them why.
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Erm.. people don't just have pumpkins to entice children. They can have them because they just like them and want to celebrate Halloween.

Anyway, pumpkins [well, turnips originally] were carried to ward off evil spirits. So the history doesn't have anything to do with attracting kids either. Anyway, if they want to hand out sweets, why not? That would just be like petting someone else's dog. You can appreciate it, but you don't want to look after it or take it home!
 
AndrewNR said:
Because they're old, have had the chance to have children and didn't. They now want to entice children with their illuminations. :confused:
I just find it a bit odd to go to that trouble at their age.

Having said that they'll be putting their Christmas lights up in a week or two for the next 3 months, so maybe they just like illuminations.

Maybe one day if I'll ask them why.
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Maybe they just like being part of the evening's enjoyment for the local children? Handing out sweets and admiring the crazy costumes in a way that make the kids, and by extension their accompanying parents, happy for an evening?

I don't think you need to have kids of your own to try and make some happy.
 
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