dialogue about keeping yourself spaced out from strangers etc. so to go door to door knocking asking for lollies/sweets (we don't call them
candy here) seems all rather wrong in that current climate.
Yeah, I suppose that's reasonable -- even though it's certainly an event that people could do entirely outside, if they felt like it -- I certainly enjoyed the time or two I did something like that, in the pre-apocalypse times, including some memories of my dad sitting on my front porch, coming, in part, because we knew there'd be more people who'd visit my door than his.
It's a fun neighborhood event.
I do kind of miss the more adult-flavored Halloween things in Germany, where everyone goes _somewhere_ dressed in interesting costumes. But I only did
that once in Germany, and it was pre-pandemic, and going to a bar, even as a group of three women in matching costumes, was fairly uncomfortable for
getting stared at, because of so few people in costume.
But on the other hand, Burg Frankenstein (around Darmstadt, but it's the remains of a walled-in town dating from 1200 or so, with some gothic towers from some point in the 1850s, and a legend that Mary Shelley was inspired by some legends of the place) has some _really_ impressive Halloween
celebrations. That I assume have gotten canceled the last couple of years,
but it'd be nice to go back eventually.
The Black Friday sales have been growing here in recent years but that's only because retail want another bite of the cherry :)
Yeah. Given that there are literal invented holidays to try to encourage
people to shop, getting on board with a sort-of-real holidays seems like an obvious choice.
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