It has already taken over! Santa Claus and various Demons now cohabit all the garden centres from September onwards together with the serried ranks of evil looking Lindt chocolate Bunnies and Reindeer.
It is good for gardeners as you can get tremendous bargains as they want to totally clear all the shelves for the "Holiday" ripoff season.
He's back to spam again.
Whilst I (partially) agree, Halloween is a Celtic tradition that was taken to the USA by Scottish & Irish immigrants.
Not that it bothers us. No-one is going to schlep down 1/4 mile of unsurfaced, unlit farm track to bother 2 houses at the end of it, especially given that one of them (ours) has a locked gate. (We started locking it after a certain amount of fly tipping and petty theft.) In 20 years, I think we've had about
3 or 4 unsolicited callers.
We had some T&Ters. Dog tried to eat them.
NT
In article , GB scribeth thus
I had three young kids run right out from behind a lorry last night.
Dunno how I didn't hit them .. called after them and was told to "f*ck off"..
Thats gratitude for saving their sorry arses;(..
I spose their parents will have to shelve their plans for the compensition (sp)....
Jim K
But the tradition didn't include the commercialised nonsense we endure now.
Nice locks- in a weak door/frame.
Exactly the same as a 1 bag of sweets.
Last year I nipped to the local shop and there were 3 kids playing chicken by jumping into the road and then pretending to run in front of you and to try to make you swerve. I thought "on the way back from the shops if they do that again I'll scare the shit out of them by swerving towards them and not away from them and then swevre back away from them at the last second". Sure enough on the way back they did the same thing, I swerved towards them. One decided to jump back on the pavement, one stood still and the one that decided to run across the road went straight over my bonnet. I was lucky that day, there was no damage to the van.
On Friday 01 November 2013 18:09 ARW wrote in uk.d-i-y:
A box of discounted "Celebrations" and a monster bag of mini bags of Haribos lasts 20 different groups -
The callout charges must be a bitch.
NT
They will become your apprentices in the future and take it out of you when you're an old man.
You could always gaet some past their sell by date sweeties cheap.
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