"It's A Plot, I Tells Ya!" Tanka 6213

richwrapper

Oct 29

(October 28, 2023)

decorate devil's

day-and-nigh: how Halloween

became Big-Time Fun(?)

dentists giddy over over growth

of churches/ "Trunk" or Treat scam*

*(In order to claim their own many churches follow the "Fall Festival" route rather than call it Halloween, and hold "Trunk or Treat" candy give-aways in their parking kits, One Wonders: do they slip in a few brochures or mini-tracts along with the candy and stuff? All I found useful in the Real Halloween parade of ghouls and goats was the chance to wander the streets of my extended neighborhood all the way up to eighth grade. Then it became boring, what with alleged razors in he apples, etc., etc. By my Junior and Senior Years of high school the mayhem was more funish...dumping a dozen eggs still in their carton through the "moo roof" of the then-mayor's "entitled" brat-of-a-son's new Volkswagon Beetle; the big egg war between MacReynolds' drugstore/soda fountain and the converted Arthur Murray's dance-lesson studio which well may have bee a storefront at one time on Park Drive, the diagonal road linking N-S Park Avenue with French Avenue (US Highways 17&92) and the resultant cars-n-pickups travelling road show wherein purloined cartons of eggs (found reclining behind the then-Winn-Dixie grocery store at the intersection of French Ave. and 25th Street. Honest! I had no Idea the eggs were there, as Steve Pearce is my witness. We targeted no homes or businesses, no individuals we did not go to school with, and as far as I know no charges were filed nor arrests/detentions made. Some buncha rowdies were we. I came home, washed up and settled down to finish mom's big batch of not-given-out popcorn. I added some salt and hot putter to my loot.)