Trick-or-Treat
City officials with Newton announced during their Aldermen Meeting last Tuesday that the city will observe Trick or Treating on Saturday, Oct. 26, which is the same day at Treat Street, sponsored by a partnership between the Mississippi Rural Housing Authority and the Newton Chamber of Commerce.
However, I do have questions. In my 14 years of living in Newton, I’ve only recently noticed that Newton observes Halloween…sometimes not on Halloween. Is this a tradition here?
Hey, I’m a traditions kinda’ guy! Back home, it was tradition in my youth that yard rolling season started on Oct. 1st and lasted through the final ticks of the clock on the 31st. Just a couple weeks ago, I was appreciating the efforts that someone put into rolling a neighbor’s yard when that little voice in my head quickly did the math and affirmed that the act was indeed traditionally acceptable.
In my past, I do recall moving Halloween due to it falling on a Sunday or Friday, and totally understand moving them to the day before for those reasons. But why move it any other time? It seems to me it would cause a lot of confusion. I know it did last year, because we were stuck with a lot of leftover treats we planned to give out.
Nevertheless, children of Newton, we will be prepared to hand out treats on the 26th, as well as on the 31st. Come get some!
Polls Schmollz
If you’re one that pays attention to national news, as big a headache that may be these days, you’ll know that polls are all the talk as we’re merely weeks from the General Election on November 5th.
While it’s hard to take any polls seriously when it’s been thirty-plus years that I’ve paid attention to elections and have never been polled, one that I recently viewed has absolutely driven me bonkers with its absurdity.
Before I share the results of this poll, let me say that I hope you can keep your wits about you and not shred your paper or throw your phone. Because as they say: Polls…Schmollz, right?
But according to a national newspaper that we’ll call USA Gooooday (We miss you Paul Harvey), Mississippi’s favorite Halloween Candy is…..candy corn?
That’s right. The candy that your grandmother used to fill that little bowl on the coffee table with every Halloween, and remained filled to the brim up through Christmas, is our great state’s favorite candy at Halloween.
Borrowing the words of the great Bobbie Boucher, no Colonel Sanders, you’re wrong!
There’s absolutely no way a majority of any population in any state would choose candy corn over anything other than those 80’s phenomenon called wax lips or a rock.
Not when you have the most glorious candy out there, that being Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. And I’m talking those that are shaped like ghosts, bats, eggs, Christmas trees…you’re just not beating them.
Now I will say this about candy corn: If you fill a jar halfway with candy corn and the other half with peanuts, then mix them up, you’ve got yourself a conglomeration that tastes like Payday candy bars, which is fine too.
But on its own, candy corn is to be shamed. As should USA Gooooday. You’ve failed us for the last time!
