Halloween

[butterfly_trin]

I HATE Halloween. Check out daemon_will's latest post, I hate it for the same reasons and can't be bothered to explain them. . . but, today, for the first time in my life, I ended up celebrating it. Why? Because the family I work with like to have a Halloween party rather than sending their children out trick-or-treating, and I couldn't bear to

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[segh]

I sudden;y remembered the story of Dorothy Parker attending a Hallowe'en party.
"What are they doing?" she asked.
"Ducking for apples."
"There, but for a typographical error," she noted, "is the story of my life."

[deeyah]

In cheery Orpington, they spit on our windows when we refuse to open the door. >=/

[butterfly_trin]

Exactly! My employers were talking about making the house attractive for trick-or-treaters, and I said "Wow, this is a real first for me, where I come from you really don't want to make the house inviting at halloween, you'll end up with glue in the keyhole. Um, I don't actually come from a ghetto. . ."

[mirandaalyson]

No, I think the real I-live-in-a-ghetto moment for me was the time I frantically phoned you late one evening because we were under threat of having petrol poured through the letterbox and I needed somewhere to evacuate the kids to... Good old New Addington, eh?

[butterfly_trin]

OH wow, I'd completely forgotten about that! Lol New Addington is one special place!