Schools Eliminating Halloween?

[TorchTheWitch]

56. I'm horrified by this - I LOVE Halloween

Even at my ridiculously older than a child age I STILL start planning a costume sometime during the summer. I don't miss kids coming to my door for trick or treating, but I LOVE seeing the local kids dressed in costumes on their way to parades or parties and taking pictures of them, and of COURSE, dressing up myself. I LOVE walking the dog all over the place admiring peoples' ingenious house/yard decorations (even more than at Christmas time) and have a strict rule for him to not pee on or eat anyone's hard work in decorating (he still hates the giant inflatable Eagles football player though, but it's not a Halloween decoration, so it doesn't really count).

Missing out on Halloween festivities as an older adult just horrifies me. I'm still devastated all these years later about the Halloween party I missed when I was in my first year of high school because of having gotten the flu. My friends stopped by after the party all dressed up in their costumes having obviously enjoyed themselves enormously to cheer up my fevered coughing self yet it made me so ENVIOUS I ended up being pissed off that they did since it smacked so much of rubbing it in. I still feel like I should get an extra Halloween because of missing out that year.

And I still feel like we should have Halloween several times a year - once a year isn't nearly enough, and I don't give a flying poop about the candy (I actually don't want the candy anyway and even as a kid gave most of mine away except for the fun stuff like candy necklaces or those disgusting little dots on reams of paper or the beloved candy cigarettes). I can't even imagine how much more it would be horrifying for me as a kid when I'm already horrified at the thought of missing out on Halloween festivities as an older adult! GAH! I'm going to have nightmares now about Halloween being entirely canceled!