Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts

Saturday, October 31, 2009

HALLOWEEN AT THE BORDER


There are advantages and disadvantages about living where I live.

It's true that you can't just run out and pick up a gallon of milk down the road.... unless you have a milk cow or goat on your property... and actually I have a neighbor with two milk goats, so....

You do continually get charged by your cell phone carrier for international calls, since the cell towers in Mexico are closer than the ones in Arizona.

And bright floodlights occasionally fill your bedroom when the Border Patrol is hunting someone in the middle of the night.

Well, okay, maybe it's not just occasionally.

But you don't have to purchase any Halloween candy.... at least not any candy that you don't want to eat yourself.

Because we don't get any trick-or-treaters. Mainly because it's pitch black out here after 6:45 p.m..

Seriously.

No street lights, only porch lights that are motion activated. Add to that dirt roads, houses that are frequently a quarter of a mile away from each other, and a relentless stream of illegal immigrants

So you don't even need pumpkins like this one around to scare everyone off.

But wait a minute, do you think this could help the Border Patrol and scare off some of the illegals?

Saturday, November 1, 2008

THE ABSENCE OF HALLOWEEN

Some extremely strict Christian's object to the celebration of Halloween as 'worship of evil' and observance of satanic rituals. They believe that forcing little children to observe such malevolent ceremonies as trick-or-treating door-to-door will obviously lead to capitalist traits such as consumer manipulation, the American dream of 'something-for-nothing' and open market free enterprise , judging by physical appearances...

Wait, isn't that what extremely strict, politically-correct Christians in America want?

Well, the point is that living far enough out from any town/city/hamlet that people drive their cars to visit their next-door neighbor instead of walking, you simply don't get trick-or-treaters.

I thought of dressing the animals up; just couldn't find anything that would fit a Quarter Horse or a Thoroughbred.