When Halloween and Politics Collide

October 31, 2008

.This year D and I have a tiny scarecrow and a trail of pumpkins leading to a whimsical ghost with a basket full of candy in his hands beside our front door. The porch lights are on signaling this is a Halloween-friendly house but still we’re wondering. Will the ghost scare the children away, or the yard sign scare the parents away? Whatever the outcome, Happy Halloween everyone!

CANDY UPDATE: Two kiddos just rang the bell. The boy was SpeedRacer and my best guess on the girl she was playing the part of a miniature drag queen with flaming red hair, a purple taffeta and lace dress, and silver sequined shoes. Her costuming was so good I wouldn’t have been surprised had she pulled a mic out of her plastic pumpkin basket and started singing Annie Lennox’s “Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves.”

So, as the story goes, I was piling candy into their bags (you know you’re pushing the candy when a kid looks at you like “Easy Lady, my sugar levels will go off the charts with all that!”), and the dad started chanting “No on 8! No on 8!” I looked up from the kids to the smiling parents and said I was relieved my signs hadn’t scared them off to which he responded, “Not at all. They attracted us here.”

It was a sweet moment with no calories.

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