It's All Souls Day eve. All Hallows eve. Halloween. Although I'm fairly sure All Souls Day (and All Saints Day) is a Catholic traditional holiday, not general Christian ones. In a secular sense, it's a day to get dressed up, go looking for candy, and for paedophiles to capitalise. Wait, what?
It wasn't big here until a few years ago. Then it caught on, and we get annoying children coming to the door being greedy even though we have a taking-the-piss sign on the door that says that we are extreme fundamentalist Christians who do not support Satan's soul-harvest.
I think it's a celebration of greed, to be honest. The idea of 'trick or treat' -- although I doubt a single child realises it -- is just that: give over some treats, or be tricked (pranked; have an egg thrown at your house; whatever).
But hey, not exactly a cultural 'tradition' here. Just a lame import involving plastic pumpkins with fake tinny laughs.
I'm such a downer.
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