Halloween Lives On!

For at least one more blost (that's NateSpeek for Blog Post, I'm hoping it catches on but I wouldn't stay I'm optimistic.)

I was in the shower this morning thinking of the tricking in 'Trick or Treat'. What happened to the tricking? It obviously hasn't been able to compete with the treating- as confirmed by Google (and this clever graph):


What is the deal? Are we becoming so lazy now that we'd prefer to give the kids candy than to teach them a cool new trick? When faced with the conundrum of teaching something or buying something, do we automatically just revert to the easy (if slightly more expensive) option?

I'm just as guilty as everyone else, last night, I gave the (three) Trick-Or-Treaters that came to my door chocolate bars- but no more! From now on, I say, lets learn some cool new tricks and NEXT Halloween, lets teach those kids something impressive.

Of course, I probably will forget to do this. In which case, I have a back up plan... And it goes a little something like this...

Halloween Special!

Halloween (or All-Hallows-Even, as the Scottish variant that gave birth to the name goes) is not a big thing in Australia. However, as the world has grown smaller and smaller with the increase of faster and faster technology, customs that were once ignored here in the sunburnt land of Oz have started to creep into society. As a result, Halloween, this year, was noticeable more prominent than usual- stores had merchandise, parties were in abundance and tonight, on Hallows Eve itself, three kids showed up at my front door looking for candy.

However, Australian Halloween seems to be a lazier variant of the stereotypical American one, because these kids weren't dressed up at all. They just said "Trick or Treat" and expected food, to which I obliged.

I don't feel bad, but the kids could've dressed up, costumes are awesome.