You know...

[OldBaldy1701E]

45. Thanks for the suggestion.

Being positive about anything is all but a lost art for myself these past several years. Hell, I am sitting here at the damned computer when I should be out enjoying my favorite holiday. But, I am tired of the increasingly quizzical and sometimes suspicious looks at a near 60 year old man dressed as anything other than a near 60 year old man. I am broke so no bar hopping. Wouldn't matter, as I can't 'party' anymore anyway. Because I live surrounded by people older than I am, we have no trick or treaters here. (Thanks to HOA rules, I can't do much decorating on the place anyway. Which is about the worst thing I have ever heard of.) I used to revel in this time of year. I have been 'haunting' places ever since I was 13 and would decorate the front of our house as well as play some part i.e.: I would sit in a lawn chair with my football pads on my head and a sheet draped over me, while holding a faker head in my lap. All I would do is let the head fall as a crowd approached, and once they started to walk closer I would just stand. That usually elicited many massive screams and a rush back down the sidewalk. I started working in big haunted houses when I was around 15. I created a haunted woods for three years when I was 18-20 that was so popular we had to regulate the crowd because they were lined up along the sidewalk for half a mile. In a residential area. This type of thing was and is always so much fun. Now... I can't go to one because I can't afford them and I can't work in one because I am too feeble/crippled.

A Blessed Samhain to you and everyone, though. I hope the Spirits watch over you all during the long winter