ELNikkor wrote:
Trick-or-treating was different this year, even though it was unseasonably warm, (62 degrees) there was a slight drizzle. No one at all came to our house, as we are on a main road with few houses close together. We went out to a nearby development, where my son, dressed as the Grim Reaper, gave an 85-year-old man a start, and he remarked, "It is not a good idea to show up at my house dressed as The Grim Reaper."
At the end of our evening, a blast of wind and an accompanying deluge had us drenched and running for the car. In the morning, it was 38 degrees, still windy, branches down, and most of the leaves off the trees.
Trick-or-treating was different this year, even th... (
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Even in this era, where carefully cultivated doubt and complex metaphor have numbed our thinking, the sight of the Grim Reaper can be a bit startling.