Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

Yes, Halloween was this past weekend and yes, I failed to post on it, a fact I will now remedy.

On any given day I can't imagine what it is like to be a child in New York. This is heightened on a holiday like Halloween which, despite what adults have done to the day, remains in my mind as a child's holiday. Halloween means walking from house to house wearing costumes, knowing from year to year which houses give out the best candy and avoiding the ones that give out healthy snacks. It is the fun of ringing doorbells and admiring the entrances of houses other than your own.

I look at kids who have to trick-or-treat in New York and man, what a joke. There is no continuity or way of telling which apartments are the good ones because people move so much. There are no entrances to admire or new doorbells to ring because apartments all look the same when you can only peer in two feet and they all have the same doorbell ring as mandated by the management companies. How incredibly dreary to go from apartment to apartment and knock on doors (assuming that anyone signed up on the list to give out candy). And frankly, as fun as the big parade is for adults, it is 100% inappropriate for kids. So I'll say it: Halloween must really suck for kids in New York. I don't know if it is better or worse that they have no idea what they are missing.

Verdict: Hate New York Today