The Halloween Day.

I remember the Halloween of 2011.

I was just about going up to take a nap, prior to my midnight shift  when some neighborhood kids started “bombarding” my home with intermittent raps (and sometimes, heavy knocks) on my door. Somehow, none of them considered it necessary to press the door-bell.

And each time the door was opened, I would be confronted by the faces of several kids with assorted vocal chords asking me “trick or treat?”

Fortunately, I had a lot of candies at home, all bought a few days earlier.

About a couple of hours later, it was all quiet on the street and I thought it was finally time for me to go get the much needed nap. I was about half-way up the stairs when I heard something touching the door. Now exasperated, I went down to open the door. And lo and behold…it was a little kid…about 3 or 4 years old.

“Trick…or treat?” he barely managed to whisper while his parents stood a safe distance away, smiling broadly.

“Oh my God!” I shook my head in amusement. “If I refuse to offer you a ‘treat’, what manner of ‘trick’ can you do to me anyway?”

The little boy stood motionless without a word of response even as his parents laughed hysterically.

“Well…you’re in luck.” I stated while emptying a whole plastic bag of candies into his bowl.

This time, he smiled and whispered “Thank you sir.”

It’s that time of the year again today.

Going by my observation and interpretation, the Halloween is dedicated to the celebration of the dark, ancient ages of America. It is a day especially reserved for a trip down memory lane of American paganism, witchcraft, evil spells, magic and all other forms of negativity.

Some Christians have chosen to turn their backs on it by having an alternative celebration which they call “Halleluyah Night”.

It does not bother me one bit. But I do wonder sometimes if the Halloween had been a tradition of a Third world nation (and especially an African nation) instead of America. I could easily imagine how the American folks would have reacted to it.

“Bloody primitive people!”

“Ignorant people!”

“Will someone please go tell those Africans that this is the 21^st Century?”