As if the powers that be couldn't get any more idiotic, the people who run the City of Stillwater have decided that Trick or Treating will be held tomorrow, rather than on Halloween. And why? Football. That's right, there is a game on Saturday night and our City Council doesn't feel that Stillwater parents can sufficiently handle their own children to ensure their safety where traffic is concerned.Whu???
This means, of course, that people will get Trick or Treaters on both Thursday and Saturday, because 1) not everyone will receive the news in time, and 2) some people will just flat out rebel. And, of course, this means that Wal*Mart will make a killing selling more Halloween candy than usual.
Come on, Stillwater. This is a nationally observed holiday. Do you think other, larger cities do this whenever a home game coincides with Halloween? And I'll bet you wouldn't pull this if a game coincided with Christmas or Easter, because that would be messing with Jay-sus.
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UPDATE Thursday the 29th:
According to a comment that Nettl left earlier today, the real reason is because OSU is playing Texas on Saturday (their biggest rivals) and the game is going to be televised. Whatdaya bet they're moving this nation-wide, ages-old tradition so that parents don't have to either take their kids out, or answer the door to dole out candy? Of course, they didn't move it to Friday night because there's a high school football game that night... It's pouring rain today. I'm betting that most parents will ignore the change and adhere to Saturday night. We'll see. All the same, I still have to carve our pumpkin today, when I wanted to do it with Nettl on Saturday afternoon. Humph! This has really put a damper on something that's supposed to fun, and I'm just no longer in the mood. I wouldn't be so upset if we hadn't just had an entire weekend given over to Homecoming.
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Those people are dumber than Mud Ducks!
I absolutely LOVE your humor... mostly because it's true.
It sounds like a conspiracy to sell more high fructose corn syrup!
I just read from one of our Facebook friends that Columbus, OH is having trick-or-treat tonight as well. Don't know what their reasons are, but I would imagine that they're about as stupid as the City of Stillwater's reasons.
So the REAL REASON Halloween is moved to tonight is out. It seems that Saturday is the OSU/Texas game in Stillwater, and what is MORE, it is going to be on television. And I'll give you a thousand to one that they came up with this bright idea so that dads could stay home on Saturday night and watch the football game instead of taking their kids out trick-or-treating!
Sheesh!
If they had to move a nation-wide, ages-old tradition, why didn't they move it to Friday night instead? Because the high school has a game that night!
Your welcome boo, and you know I'm bigger, badder, and blacker than that coked out Whitney Houston, LOL!
Have you recently tried to go anywhere in Stillwater on a game night? At all? I work cleaning up the stadium, and I work the games. I have an hour off between the end of the game and cleanup and seriously I can't walk to my car 5 blocks away and get back in that hour. I think it is a good thing they are moving it to tonight, even though I will be pre-cleaning up there tonight so I still won't be able to participate....
Rondell: You know it! I used to have a real crush on her (back in the 80s), but now she's too damned skinny!
Fyrebaugh: People are pretty divided on the subject, but I hold that if it were anything but football, the holiday would have remained on Saturday. Sorry about the traffic, but eople still go to games on Thanksgiving, and families still celebrate on the traditional day. The game date is what should have been given more thought, not a static holiday. I don't know what to expect now. I see no Jack o' Lanterns on front porches anywhere in my neighborhood. Will kids come tonight? Friday (as in Norman), or on Saturday? Or all three nights? It's a mess!
Besides, it goes deeper with me than the game itself, or the holiday. Coach Sutton got off pretty damned easy for driving drunk and getting into an accident a few years ago; if the had been a music professor, he would have gone to jail and lost his job. The Seretean Center needs to be torn down and rebuilt because it's a health hazard, but where's Boone Pickens?
Sorry. I'm just sick of sports running everything in this town.
I'm with you on it putting a damper on something that was supposed to be fun. This is the first year that we've been here that we would have a lot of trick-or-treaters. And we've been talking about how much fun Halloween would be here since we moved in. Now it's been moved to a cold, rainy night with little or no regard for the difficulties and complications that it might present to the community at large. Nevermind the deeper-seated resentments that we already harbor over sports in this town. Damn! The Stillwater Chamber Singers can hardly even schedule a concert in the spring because of all the home basketball games that conflict! It's ridiculous!
I just shake my head at how sports rule everything. I read an article last week about some college (can't remember it right now) that has a special academic counselor working with the football players and she said most of them were reading on only a second grade level! Yet, they are in college with scholarships, playing football. It's sad.
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