What Halloween “means,” apparently
Don’t ask why, but I was reading this article for work. I grew up not far from Longview, Washington, so I read the piece with some interest. It’s a sweet story, and just as I was being swept up by the warm feelings of community spirit and neighborly kindness, I read this comment and was reminded of why Longview is still the fucking armpit of the West Coast:
“Halloween means chicks in skimpy “outfits”. Halloween means dudes that have homosexual behaviors or thoughts now have an excuse to wear womens clothing and under garments. Halloween means an excuse to get intoxicated and “hook-up” with that chick in the devil costume or that guy with the hockey mask. Halloween means smashed pumpkins on the street and toilet paper in my tree. Thats what halloween is around here when you are in your 20’s.”
You can put on a cute Halloween party in the sticks but you can’t expect all the hicks to appreciate it, I guess.
October 24th, 2007 at 9:19 am
Somebody sounds a little jealous…
October 24th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
Oh, come on! You can’t let some imature punk diminish such good work. Longview isn’t exactly paradise but it seems there are good things happening there. All those little punkin’ heads can’t be wrong!
October 24th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
My goodness, who is that person? I lived in that town for some of the years that I did my hardest partying, and that was never to point of Halloween. You got to understand that Valentine’s Day for this person is probably about ” Handing out chocolate and getting laid by the girl in the cute cupid outfit”, and Christmas is about “tricking hotties into standing under the mistletoe.”
October 24th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
People in the “sticks” sure seem like they’re “smart”.
October 25th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Them folks in the “sticks” put the “kin” in “pump-kin”