How To Ruin Halloween...

 You many have seen this meme...it's been making the rounds.

Because it's funny.

Other than Christmas, I can't think of a holiday kids look forward to more than Halloween. It's a day/night when a child can pretend to be something other than themselves. And the possibilities of what or who that child would like to be are endless. At least, they used to be.

I grew up in a safe neighborhood. We roamed the streets Halloween evening unafraid and unaccompanied. Fun sized candy bars, suckers, Sweet tarts, and Toosie Rolls...all renumeration for a hard night's work.

We recently moved. We have no idea how the night will go. We bought a big bag of candy, just in case. We may get a lot of kids...we may get very few. Then, there's covid to consider. I think if we had not moved, the turnout would be lighter, but not by much. We weren't inundated by kids where we used to live.

So, to answer the question posed by the meme, how to ruin Halloween?

It's not by handing out mini packs of vegetables.

It's to have a world-wide pandemic that's swept the globe.