Rant #3,807: Nothing From Nothing

Halloween is coming up tomorrow, and it seems that the country has been preparing for the celebration fir weeks leading up to the big day.

I have been pretty blase about the whole thing for a while now, for two reasons:

1) We never got any kids coming to our door, and now, living in a 55-and-older community, we certainly aren't going to get anybody.

2) The holiday simply isn't the same anymore, not since it was almost fully co-opted by adults.

When I was a kid, this was truly a kids' holiday, but things have changed so much over the decades, and now it is as much an adult holiday as it is a kids' holiday--

Maybe it is even more an adult holiday now.

Thus, I don't get too worked up over Halloween anymore.

Maybe if I still had young children at home--or even grandchildren--I would feel differently, but since neither is happening right now, Halloween doesn't mean much to me right now.

Sure, I might mark the occasion by watching the greatest horror/comedy movie of them all, "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein," but otherwise, I won't mark the occasion too much.

My son doesn't have basketball tomorrow because of the holiday, and no, we don't have any candy on hand just in case.

And speaking about candy, I think that one of the reasons I am so very blase about Halloween is that I was never into the candy, just the getting of it.

Even as a kid, I wasn't really a candy eater--my mom and sister pretty much got my Halloween candy--and as an adult, my tastes haven't changed, and if I have one or two candies a year, it is a lot.

As a kid in Rochdale Village, the getting of it was the fun for me.

We had 20 buildings, hundreds of apartments, so it was most fun getting the stuff than eating it.

Then in about 1969 or so, I saw someone i knew get mugged for his candy, and that was pretty much that for me and Halloween.

It revved up again when I had my own kids, but once they got older, that was truly the end.

And now that I am watching my sugar intake a bit more, candy absolutely does not figure into the equation.

So enjoy the holiday if that is your thing, but for me, it is just another day on the calendar--

Although next year, my daughter is supposedly getting married on that day, and when that happens--

You better believe that i will be fully spooked!