User blog:Zaffie/Halloween

So, as many of you probably know, I live in the future, and it's already been Halloween over here. Haha. And, also something you should know - I don't really celebrate Halloween. It's not really an Australian celebration, and a few people I know avoid it because they don't want to become Americanised. (Like us. LOL) But in the past couple of years, it's really become a big commercial thing. I have to say, the idea of the holiday intrigues me - a day when you get free lollies? Fantastic! - but I hate that it's turning into this overexaggerated commercial holiday. I didn't even know what day Halloween was on until this year, just that it was sometime in October. And I have lived in the same place, with the same shops, for fourteen years, and it's only this year and last year that any of the shops decorated for Halloween, and started selling American pumpkins (our pumpkins are small and green, so they sell the big orange ones for jack 'o lanterns). And to be honest it kind of creeps me out. I saw two groups trick-or-treating yesterday, although thankfully neither came near our house, cos we have no lollies. (I'm convinced one group was the identical twins from opposite, LOL).

But anyway, the point of this blog is not to explain that I don't do Halloween, it's to ask questions about people who do. So, tell me stuff about Halloween. Not nessecarily specific stories, although they're cool too, but what it's like walking round dressed up and getting lollies. Tell me if you can remember the first time you did it. Because I'm interested. ;-)