At Life Without Feck, we love nothing more than a feckless group of kids. I just heard this on the corner of 29th Street and 35th Avenue in Queens and submitted it to Overheard in New York:
Group of children in costume, chanting in unison:
WE WANT MORE CANDY!
WE WANT MORE CANDY!
NO MORE APPLES!
NO MORE APPLES!
WE WANT MORE CANDY!
WE WANT MORE CANDY!
NO MORE APPLES!
NO MORE APPLES!
Ironically, the New Yorkers who used to dress like every day was Halloween and ingest all manner of unknown compounds in the name of fun have grown into puckered-butt adults afraid of refined sugar. Perhaps those younguns will return later to decorate...with recycled toilet paper, of course.
PS: What would the vegan parents of a kid who'd thrown eggs at a house say? Would they think they'd raised a serial killer?
Also overheard:
Overheard at the Zoo
PS: What would the vegan parents of a kid who'd thrown eggs at a house say? Would they think they'd raised a serial killer?
Also overheard:
Overheard at the Zoo
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Apples aren't so bad -- those kids should be happy they weren't living in Gouverneur in the early 70s. One year, my mother apparently decided kids were eating too much sugar and gave out...wait for it...PENCILS on Halloween. Pencils. And not even the fun, sparkly/tie-dye/topped-with-a-googly-eyed-fuzzball pencils you can buy now. Just plain ol' red No.2 pencils. I was only 5 or 6, and even I knew enough to be mortified.
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