Did You Know?

Halloween is the second busiest selling season for retailers.
It is a $7 Billion industry.

Let the Children Be

'Twas Halloween night and all through the sky,

The clouds hid the moon as the bats glided by.

I was dressed all in white in my mama's old sheet,

Walking with friends down the ghost-haunted street.

All the kids were dressed in bright costumed array,

While flashlights and street lights guided our way.

We giggled and laughed as we hurried to each door,

Ringing or knocking, then laughing some more.

There were pumpkins aglow and skeletons dangling,

Scarecrows and shadows and silver chains clanging.

Grownups in masked faces opened doors in greeting,

As we stood with our bags and waited for treating.

Some people say that we should not have this night,

That too many kids are harmed by the sights or the fright -

But it's the one time a year when we can pretend to be

Someone else for a while, not you - not even me.

Let them celebrate now, as the bats glide on by,

For childhood is brief, like the blink of an eye.

Listen to their laughter and let the children be

Someone else for a while, not you and not even me.

Halloween Poem

Her pale and fragile face was gaunt
She beckoned me to follow.
Why was it me she chose to haunt?
My fear I had to swallow.

She led me up the attic stair.
The place I had feared mostly.
through the door she went, without a care.
I knew then, she was ghostly.

"Come in", she whispered through the wood
I really didn't want to.
"Right now, I say! You must, you should!"
There was nothing else I could do.

So in I went with hesitation
I feared what I would see.
my brow was filled with perspiration
I thought I might just pee.

The sight I saw I must admit
would frighten all the bravest
"I cannot stay! I've lost my wit!
My God, this is the gravest!"

A thousand stood illuminated
within my attic walls
I thought I'd be eliminated
from just their frightening calls.

Though the sight had turned me green
All they were to say
Was Happy Halloween,
and have a real good day!

A man was walking home alone late one night when he hears a BUMP... BUMP... BUMP.. .behind him.
Walking faster he looks back and makes our the image of an upright coffin banging its way down the middle of the street towards him...BUMP...BUMP...BUMP...
Terrified, the man begins to run towards his home, the coffin bouncing quickly behind him...faster...faster...BUMP...BUMP...BUMP.
He runs up to his door, fumbles with his keys, opens the door, rushes in, slams and locks the door behind him.
However, the coffin crashes through his door, with the lid of the coffin clapping... clappity-BUMP... clappity-BUMP... clappity-BUMP... on the heels of the terrified man.
Rushing upstairs to the bathroom, the man locks himself in. His heart is pounding; his head is reeling; his breath is coming in sobbing gasps.
With a loud CRASH the coffin breaks down the door. Bumping and clapping towards him.
The man screams and reaches for something, anything...but all he can find is a box of cough drops!
Desperate, he throws the cough drops at the coffin...
...and of course
...the coffin stops.