I don't know what on earth I was doing these past two Halloween weekends but I know I can't have been at the mall - I'd have remembered being run over by hoardes of kiddiwinks and their grabby parents!!!
The scale of this one pagan holiday is massive in this country - it's unbelievable!
We made the mistake of going to the mall today. Well, it didn't seem like a mistake when we parked up as the Nordstrom's carpark had spaces.
That should've clued us into the fact that something was up as it's a Sunday and it's usually a rare thing to find an inside parking space.
Naturally, after observing this, we expected the mall to be, well, a lil more roomy but that wasn't the case!
We saw witches, pumpkins, clowns and fairies galore, (and also one lil boy who was dressed up as Malfoy though his skin wasn't as pallid).
There was a line of princesses clutching onto a long blue ribbon as they wound their way between the stores, led by a parent.
Nearly every child had a bag or one of those plastic pumpkins with handles and all anticipated filling it, (and their lil stomachs) with candies which were being handed out in the stores and also the stalls running up the centre of the mall.
One bloke offered Josh a small candy-filled bag which I declined on the grounds that 1) he's not of an age to be eating sweets and, 2) he probably gets enough crap as it is!
That put him straight!!
What a bloody nightmare! Honestly - the place was jam-packed! We only wanted to visit one store and the food court, that was it.
Hubs asked me whether I thought that the children or their parents were worse when it came to sheer bloodymindedness - the parents had my vote as at least the kiddies were aware that people were trying to pass by whereas the parents were taking up all the space and moving at a pace a snail would be ashamed of!!!!!!
Oh well, that's something we'll not to have to put up with this time next year! *L*
Labels: candy, clowns, fairies, Halloween, Harry Potter, irritating, mall, nightmare, princesses, pumpkins, witches
