Halloween

So it was another successful holiday spent at my other home, aka my place of business and I must say the costumes were interesting. With the saving of the Chilean miner we had an outcrop of those costumes and of course you have your vampires, simpsons, nurses, fairies, shake weighters, etc. I was surprised by the fact that there were not a lot of slutty costumes this year, good job girls! I didn't get to see a lot that night due to being stuck in what we like to call "time out" however I did get to have fun with some of my friends who came in and worked an awesome party. As always I had my Dalton there to help me keep on laughing! One of my favorite costumes came from a friend of mine who was the Little Caesar's pizza shaker guy! He had the neon glasses, head phones, ridiculous hat, bright vest, and yes a pizza box ready to shake! Now that is ingenious. I myself was dressed as a trophy wife, not original but hey it got the job done for making some money! I don't really have too much to report on the bar as of late, it's been pretty calm, except I still think people need to read my blog on how to tip properly.

Oh wait one thing happened a guy came in for a party of his a couple weeks ago and brought roughly 20 friends. His package lasted from 9-12 and they took advantage of it. I wasn't really making any money off of them so I stopped serving. Sorry I don't work for free and neither do my coworkers, but the party ended and homeboy decided to try to get the rest of the night for free. He went up to Muffy and said i will throw 20 on my card now and let's just keep it open. Muffy turned to me and said how many people does he have? I replied with roughly 20 and Muffy looked at him and said so you want to drink for 3 more hours for free on $20, don't think so. The guy preceded to talk about how he brought all these people in and blah blah blah. I looked at him and pretty sure he got the message that I thought he was a douchebag. His reasoning made no sense to us whatsoever. I mean if you're friends want to celebrate your birthday with you they should be willing to throw the coin down to do it, this guy clearly was a first timer in a bar. So we told him no and he got all huffy, well he kept coming to the bar and asking for his Woodchuck (yup first sign of being a dbag, you have a drink package and that's what you choose) at one point he went to one of my male bartenders, we will call him Mullet and said I am with the party I drink for free all night, well Mullet said I don't think so bud five bucks, the guy argues with him for awhile and Mullet finally goes I think you need the money more than me, ahhh zing! Highlight of the night. Anyway that is one blip in this story, let's get down to the rest of the blog.

So I wanted to talk about Halloween and how sad it has gotten over the years. Kids use to go out and trick or treat all night and roam the streets. Things now a day seem to have tapered off, who knows if it is because of all the sick freaks in the world or parents don't trust strangers to give their kids candy. This is the only day of the year you could go solicit free food from people and it is acceptable. Homeless persons dream! I just want to know what happened to the spirit of Halloween, did it die once the news reports started getting scarier or is it parents don't want their kids to gain weight?

Halloween is my favorite holiday, you get to dress as whomever you want to be and cause havoc in neighborhoods. We use to go out all night running around in our costumes tping the neighbors and being ridiculous. I drove home at 8pm and there was nobody on the streets. I tell you it is a sad tale. I guarantee I will tell my accidental children that they can go out and take candy from strangers and talk to whomever they want. People now are just so scared of too much that it is causing kids to miss out on great childhood memories.

I understand the concerns that parents have but good god your child will not make it in the real world if you coddle them forever. Let them live, let them make mistake, let them have a decent childhood so they don't become serial killers later in life. I just don't understand the whole concept of keeping your kids indoors, Halloween isn't about going to the store and buying the discounted candy and having your kid ring the doorbell over and over what fun is that. Some of the fun is emptying your pillow cases and checking the candy to see if Mr. Dilbert put a razor in it this year or if that lady you suspect of being a real live witch poisoned your tootsie rolls. I guess times are changing and that isn't funny anymore but you get my drift. Why take all the fun out of holidays? Are you going to take presents away now to or tell the kids they can't sit on Santa's lap because he may be a pedophile dressed in a Santa suit? I mean we all know there's something fishy about it, but at least it isn't a giant Easter Bunny who doesn't speak who wants all the kids to sit on your lap. Also on the subject of the Easter Bunny, how creepy is that tradition, a giant bunny roams around your house and hides eggs and baskets, hello if any holiday tradition should be watched it's that one. I think I may tell that tale to my kids to scare them more than to encourage the asking of candy!

Yeesh what is this world coming to?!