Calling It In This Year
I’m going to be on a business trip for the next two weeks and figured I better pick up some candy and cheery decor now, lest I forget and be one of THOSE PEOPLE. After spending my entire lunch hour carefully contemplating my options, I picked out a plug-in pumpkin (to substitute for the usual rotting gourd here in blazing Florida) and a yard sign (MONSTER MADNESS!). On top of being hungry and PMS-y, I got called 3 times while trying to get this single errand done.
Checker: So…getting ready for Halloween, eh?
Me: Yep.
Checker: This sign looks like a picket sign. Are you protesting? *huh huh huh*
Look, jackass, you’re the one SELLING this crap, not me. So now I’m even less excited about my home decor choices. Hopefully the costumed munchkins will be focused like a laser beam on my GIANT BOWL OF CANDY and will refrain from mocking my Halloween finery.
