There are some days I wake up and feel old. My feet hurt, my hands cramp up, I wobble around the bleak drizzly morning and think "Jebus, I'm 36, not the other way around!" and then it passes and after goofing around with Luke and Bridget I feel young, closer to the point of view they share about the world than people my own age. Why can't we eat Jell-o for breakfast? Why not jump in puddles? I'm all for it. Then comes a story like the one you can read by clicking on the title above, and you realize how far removed from "adulthood" an adult can really be. Long story short, kids in a small Washington town might not have Halloween celebrations in school, for fear of offending..."real witches." Yeah, right. Hey, that reminds me , Christmas is being re-thunk around these parts for fear of offending..."real elves." I'm sick of this "P.C." world we live in. I think it's time to buck the trend. I think I just might leave the turlit seat up this weekend. I think just to balance out things a bit, I may watch a REDSKINS game. I may even call my "butter-flavoured popcorn topping" BUTTER this next coming movie excursion.
Or...maybe I'll just toss my 2 cents in where it might get picked up by firing off a nasty-gram to the large and in-charge, high and mighty Puyallup school district President, a one Mr.G Heath.
Heres what I had to say...
Dear Mr. Heath,
I just finished reading this article www.komonews.com/stories/33602.htm and had to voice my opinion. If what was said regarding the cancellation of all Halloween activities is true, then you and your staffers have succumbed one of the saddest trends in our history, over-sensitivity. How many times in the past have you actually stopped to think that the world, or even your little town, would be better off without some traditions? I would hope never. If so, it is only a matter of time before other traditions follow suit. If Halloween is "offensive" to "Witches" then Thanksgiving could be viewed as offensive to Native Americans, Christmas offensive to Jews and every other holiday offensive to one group or another. Where does it stop? Or is that the point, is this just the start of the ideal that one day, we will all act accordingly as to not offend anyone or anything by not involving ourselves in any way shape or form. If so, then you should know you are simply teaching these children nothing more than apathy and nihilism. The bottom line is this, you are taking away Halloween from children. Plain and simple. That is all they will see it as. Let the kids have fun, and for god's sake let them be kids while they are young, they will have the rest of thier lives to think , and over-think, like some adults.
Pehaps not the most moving of all texts but my point was made.
Maybe. We will see. Time to go jump in a puddle with a bowl full of Jell-O, FOR BREAKFAST OF COURSE!
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