the rix mix

There were a lot of trick or treaters out tonight. On one poorly lit residential street I was stumbling over little kids running out ahead of their parents, & had to walk across lawns to avoid baby strollers. The three block Elmora retail district was so packed I thought there had been a parade, but it was just where families & friends congregated to see & be seen. So crowded that women were using the men's room at Dunkin' Donuts. With all the candy, kids still demanded donuts. Teenage girls costumed as sexy French maids, sexy vampiresses, sexy witches, sexy schoolgirls (plaid Catholic school skirts with stockings & garters) , only slight exaggerations of what they usually wear. I haven't handed out candy since I lived on the first floor of a three family.

Of course, this is really Samhain, the Celtic Pagan celebration Christianity couldn't fully suppress. All the major Pagan days are on the Christian calendar by other names, thinly disguised at that.