Monday, November 1, 2010

Spook!

Another Halloween has been and gone. The spooky festival still hasn't really taken off here in Belgium, certainly not where we live anyway. We had a knock on the door the week before last, a full ten days before All Hallows Eve, and my wife opened it to discover two rather small children and their father.
"Trick or treat!"
A bit of a surprise. Not as surprising, I will grant you, if they had been singing:
"We wish you a merry Christmas"
but still a surprise none the less.
There was a mad scramble around the house while we looked for something suitable to give them with me complaining about the fact that it was waaaay too early for trick and treating. We don't keep sweets in the house at the best of times.
Me: Make them a cheese sandwich!
Wife: Don't be mean!
Me: Do we have any cough sweets?
In the end we gave them some money.
A bit reluctant to do that. But I have memories of me and some friends going door to door every Christmas as a child carol singing.
"....and a happy new year!"
ding dong.
That squirmy stomach feeling as you waited for the door to open.
An angry looking adult opening the door.
Him or Her: Yeah?
Us: Merry Christmas!!
Him or her: ............................................(silence)................
Then the door would slam.
I'm not saying we are soft touches but we usually have something in the house around festival times to give to beggars. In the end, yesterday passed with no visitors, leaving us with a nice tin full of bite size Snickers and Twix. Which we have to eat ourselves...damn and blast!
 

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