Halloween was always an "American" thing in NZ when I was a kid. No one quite understood it - even the Peanuts "Great Pumpkin" references weren't easy to follow. Why would anyone sit in the pumpkin patch? What was funny about it?
Over the past few years, however, it's caught on, and now we get gangs of rapacious trick or treaters roaming the streets terrorising the young and old alike and demanding treats (tricks don't fill the loot bag) on All Hallows Eve. Most older people wish that they
were dead, or at least elsewhere or otherwhere.
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Where's Sarah Michelle Gellar when we all need her?
Kids understand consumerism, not mysticism.
