Archive for November 3rd, 2008
“What’s that?” asked my friend Blondie as she greeted me at the door.
“It’s my entry.” I replied, handing over my entry.
“Your entry to what?”
“Your best pumpkin competition, for the party.”
“Right. It’s just that, well, it’s not a pumpkin.”
“Oh I realise that. There were none left in Tesco when I went in earlier, so I thought rather than not take part in the festivities, I would improvise.”
“OK. So what, exactly, is that?”
“It’s a grapefruit. It was the biggest one in the shop.”
“And you’ve drawn a scary face on it.”
“Yes, yes I have. Do I win?”
“No. No you do not.”
Some people are such fascists regarding the minor details of annual celebrations. They fail to recognise the true meaning of Halloween, which is of course the celebration of drawing faces of foodstuffs. Let us not be vegist or fruitist. It matters not which vegetable is adorned by a face, merely that you have taken part and doodled on something edible.
No, they didn’t fall for that either.
