Strange Halloween
Maybe it's that we live in a small town (although my mom said it's the same in St. Louis), or maybe it's that I'm getting older (which Vince would heartily agree with)... but I sure don't remember when I was growing up, adults dressing up for Halloween. Sure, my elementary school teachers dressed up for our class party and my dad would dress up with us as we went trick-or-treating... but yesterday, as Vince and I were out for lunch, adults were dressed up everywhere we went - and in very elaborate costumes! I saw Little Red Riding Hood at Wal-Mart, some sort of bloody ghoul at at the Sunglass Hut, a very pregnant Greek Goddess at Barnes And Noble (must have been Aphrodite), the Hunchback of Notre Dame at JC Penney. A cow with udders served us at Pizza Hut and a woman riding an ostrich worked at the cash register. A man dressed as a woman with very large hoo-hoo's was walking at the mall, and some sort of goth looking girl was working at Target (although I'm not certain she was actually in costume). Last year, I had to leave my cart and literally chase Ezra as he ran out of Wal-Mart because the checker at Wal-Mart was dressed as a clown, and as we've discussed previously, Ezra has a serious terror of clowns. Have things changed, or was it always this way? What ever happened to cute little lobsters and firemen (hypothetically speaking of course)?
posted by Kirsten at
12:26 PM
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I love the firemen and lobster! Is that Sebastian, perhaps? Maybe my Ariel could come up to Nearly Canada and do a little song and dance number with him :)
Re: your adults dressing up comments - ABSOLUTELY I AGREE! I took my girls to the church "Harvest Festival" (you know my feelings about *that*) and more parents were dressed than were not. And some of those costumes, well, the moms should be reading the Girltalk blog about modesty. Hmmmmmmm. Why is that some people think Halloween is a "free pass" to wear something that they would never dream of wearing any other day of the year? And I don't mean "It would be silly to dress up like Barney the Dinosaur 364 days out of the year, so I'm going to have some fun and dress up like Barney for Halloween"...more like "I would never dress like a ****chie mama 364 days out of the year, so I'm going to dress up like that on Halloween and take my children the CHURCH party"!!!!!!! AAACK!! It's sort of strange answering my girls' "is she modest?" questions at the church party.
I remember my teachers and my mom's coworkers dressing up, but not random people IN PUBLIC. I do remember thinking it was weird to see my mom's coworkers dressed up...and when I saw my first cow-with-udders-walking-upright costume, I wanted to run and/or vomit. Disturbing.
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