1 November 2006 - Wednesday
Being a good neighbor
A couple of weeks ago, I decided I should buy a large bag of cheap candy. I consider myself, after all, a reasonably civic-spirited sort of chap, and it occurred to me that I might get Halloween visitors this year. They might expect candy.
However, I am also a citizen of deep moral conviction. I simply could not encourage the youth of this city to participate in such a wicked, not to mention dentally dangerous, celebration. And I don't particularly like visitors anyway. So last night, I turned off both my inside lights and my porch light to discourage anyone ghoulish from dropping by.
So now I still have this great big bag of candy. Civic-spiritedness should work out this well for everyone.
| Posted by Wilson at 17:56 Central | TrackBack| Report submitted to the Life Desk
[Edit: Flowers, why don't you get your own blog to promulgate your very clever and very long theories about artificial intelligence, sex, the Holocaust, and Halloween? That would be nicer than using mine. -- The Management]
The thoughts of Flowers on 1 November 2006 - 22:29 Central+ + + + +
Dangit Wilson,
Now I want to know what Flowers was trying to say. I know you're doing this just to screw with me.
On an actually related-to-the-post note, we bought 3 bags of candy and then realized that our porch light is out. Sadly, this means we got no trick-or-treaters through no misanthropic hermitousness of our own.
The thoughts of Vengeful Cynic on 2 November 2006 - 7:55 Central+ + + + +
Well, I both turned off all the lights on the main floor and didn't buy any candy. Instead I bought eggnog. You know, if that stuff's in the store this early, I'm going to go through a lot before it's sold out...
The thoughts of Ardith on 2 November 2006 - 8:02 Central+ + + + +
I managed to skim through Flowers' thoughts. They were rather . . . impressive. Did you save them for posterity, Wilson?
The thoughts of Randy on 3 November 2006 - 13:01 Central+ + + + +
As a matter of fact, I did. If you want to see what Flowers wrote, just send me an email.
The thoughts of Wilson on 3 November 2006 - 13:34 Central+ + + + +
It is more expensive, but I've decided to buy the little goblins healthy treats
(fig newmans, natural gummy bears, etcs.). There were almost no tricker-treaters in my neighborhood, so I ended up with bags of good stuff. (or maybe the word got out that I gave health food treats ... so they stayed away.)
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There is, of course, still a way to be civic-spirited with that candy...
The thoughts of Jeremy Pierce on 1 November 2006 - 21:36 Central+ + + + +