I thought I was hallu-
cinating for a second or two Unfortunately, I wasn't. I stopped by Long's Drugstore today, and THEY ALREADY had their Halloween crud up. Geez, why do they have to RUIN stuff by putting it out so damned early? It's a minor event, it totally spoils the fun if you're looking at this stuff for almost two months.
No, I have no objections to kids having a little party and a round of trick-or-treat. To everything - there is a season. This ain't it for Halloween. What I really resent is having to put up a fight against candy corn this soon. Why are "they" persecuting me?!
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We stopped at the mall the other night and in one of the stores they had flip-flops on sale on a rack next to, believe it or not, mittens and scarves!!! UGH!!! I couldn't believe what I was seeing. In CA you probably don't "fear" winter like those of us on the tundra. I have cousins who live in the mountains by San Bernardino and they whine about the fog...we had that in Seattle all the time, but it ain't three feet of snow!
I count my blessing on that one. I appreciated snow as a youth - but I also appreciate not having to drive in it in winter as an adult.
I think growing up I learned some really colorful turns of phrase from my dad regards the Bleeping snowplough, which always managed to come through our neighborhood just after he had shoveled out the sumb*tchdriveway -- he'd go in to change and bammo ... had to re-shovel out, then drive the 40 miles in to Boston from Nashua. We also got a lot of snow in Pa, and also in western Virginia in Roanoke. I have a winter coat. Somewhere. Don't currently own any mittens - but I do have a pair of LL Bean low weather proof shoes. Somewhere.
I DO have to say, however, that some of the best days as a kid were waking up to see it had snowed like crazy and with more on the way - turn that radio on around 6:30 and just PRAY that your school was going to have a day off from too much snow. Once in Nashua they had a "no school day" because it was too COLD. Below zero F. What did we do? Played outside. IIRC we went ice-skating on a neighbor's corner lot, which he always flooded over in winter for the kids to skate on.
The first Christmas after my mom died I went back east to visit relatives. I have to say I got cabin fever.
I sniffed some mellowcream pumpkins the kids had the other day and I gagged...blech. I can ususally eat maybe one...lol.
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