Greetings and welcome to the - its almost Halloween week. The week where parents of small children rush around like mad ghouls in search of costumes to buy for their children, that they said months ago that they were going to make this year!! Waaaaaa hahahaha !! yeah right!! Take a look in the mirror folks. This is a right of passage, something you can pass down to your children!! "When you have kids of your own time flies until you have no more time left to get anything done!!! so run out and buy something" You know one of those flimsy costumes that cost a half a weeks pay and self destructs before you get it home and onto the little goblins! Not only that you have also paid $50 for make-up for their faces and maybe even thrown in a wig to the tune of another $50. Wow you have now helped to support a small island country for about 2 more years!! By the way these island countries have no idea what Halloween is and most of them probably dress in what we would consider Halloween costumes, as regular garb most of the year. Oh and they made these "clothes" for themselves. See they are more organized than you are!!! So now you have the costumes and think, let's try them on! Oh, oh you just found out that your little one just grew 5 more inches and nothing fits!! and your 10 yr old son wanted to be "Sponge Bob" and you got him "Batman". Is it Halloween yet?? Back to the store? What's left? How much will it cost? (next year will be different - yes you are dreaming!) At least you bought enough candy to feed all of the kids in three counties!! Oops you just remember your three friends came by yesterday and the three of you were complaining about Halloween and ate most of it, and the kids got the rest!! Back to the store!! So the big night is here and... your kids $100 costumes are covered in $.25 black trash bags because it is raining out. You drive the kids around to each house so they can get enough candy to eat on the way home and get sick. Your parents are at your house giving out candy and are afraid you won't have enough and call you 5 times to ask " do you think you need to buy more?" You get home, dismiss your parents after thanking them. Tell the kids to dump out their candy so you can make sure it is safe to eat. By the way most of this stuff was made a year ago!! Just like Easter Peeps!! So now the kids are off to bed after 4 trips to the bathroom and it is now time for you to relax. You sit down and grab today's newspaper and out falls the ad for after Halloween sales. You calmly sit there rip the ad into small pieces and eat it!!! Happy Halloween!!
