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October 30, 2002
Here's a new and exciting
Here's a new and exciting bit of New York culture I just learned about. All teachers at my school and every other school in NYC are preparing for Halloween.
Costumes? No. Candy? No. Decorations? No. A phalanx of malicious teenagers armed with limited vocabulary and rotten eggs? Yes. I revealed the teacher's equivalent of 'new car smell' today by asking why everyone was so freaked out about All Hallow's Eve. The whole staff laughed at me and my insane naivete. Apparently everyone in NY finds it a natural event that children attack their teachers at the end of October.
Heads up to all New Yorkers. This doesn't happen in other places, just in your state. In other states that also have the death penalty, we simply get dressed up, eat candy until we're sick, and then go home. As far as I can tell, this is simply a natural extension of my 'bodega theory.' Bodegas sell lumpy milk, puffy ham, and tainted monkey clumps to unsuspecting shoppers like me. I'm sure that some of them drummed up this idea to get rid of large volumes of rotten eggs at a nice profit. Where someone like me would simply see chicken reproduction and educators and youth who supposedly can't afford pencils, some bodega owner saw a marketing opportunity.
Lucky that my head wipes clean.
Posted by G at October 30, 2002 09:23 PM