Halloween
Halloween is my favorite time of the year. Except for the part where you get presents, it’s better than Christmas. I wait all year for Halloween, and when it finally arrives, I dance and jump for joy and decorate everything. I decorate my journal/website, I decorated the forums I help maintain for Urban Dead, I decorate the restaurant, my car . . . except the house. I never get around to the house (probably because of the generally crappy weather). Maybe this year there will be some lights and crap in the windows. That would be fun.
Halloween decorating at the Restaurant Where I Work(TM) can be really annoying. This is largely caused by the fact that we’re inundated with religious fundies of various stripes. In theory, we’re supposed to stick with harvesty crap: cutesy scarecrows, garlands and wreaths of leaves, pumpkins and gourds, fall colors, etc. In practice, we add in some “family fun” cartoony Halloween stuff like funny-faced ghosties and witches and scaredy cats and happy jack-o-lanterns and whatnot. That stuff, though, is to be strictly kept to the main dining room so that the fundies, who prefer the back dining room, have someplace safe from the devil to sit and eat. Last year, we barely decorated at all, and still I had to hear the whining and bitching and moaning from the fundies. Mary and I got bitched at for dressing up as witches on Halloween, and one of my waitresses got bitched at by the Baptist group for dressing up — she had to take most of her costume off while waiting on them. Not to mention the whining and bitching we had to hear all month, and all the time we spent tracking down cleverly-hidden anti-Halloween religious tracks that had been stashed around the restaurant. We found those damn things stuffed in with the table tents, hidden in the car magazine racks, in the bathrooms, tucked in the menus . . . Don’t these people have lives?
In fact, the Baptists were already on my case this past Sunday, with mutters and grumbles about our “promoting the Devil” with our cute, cartoony decorations. Pfffft.
So, to them, and all misguided-haters of Halloween, I dedicate this banner, to be used freely wherever you’d like, to stake your claims on our beloved Halloween.
October 3rd, 2006 at 10:12 pm
I cannot believe how some people react to Halloween. It must be awful to be such a grump all the time. I actually feel sorry for those people who do not know how to enjoy life. Hope to see you soon. Love ya lots….MOM
October 8th, 2006 at 12:38 pm
I actually feel sorry for those people who do not know how to enjoy life.
Well, yeah. I just wish those people would leave the rest of us alone! Like I tell the girls at work: “I wish all I had to worry about was what kind of Halloween decorations some restaurant was hanging up!”