Oh my good God.

You know how when customers come in, you make small talk and friendly chatter. Well this is the first time that I’ve had a WTF moment related to that. Usually we just swap pleasantries, complain about the weather being too hot or too cold, and any major events that happen to be going on. You know, polite friendly conversation that isn’t particularly engaging but helps to pass the time. That kind of conversation.

Well, I just had a gentleman in here and seeing as how Halloween was one of the recent big events, I asked if he had a good halloween. Instead of the typical slop answer, he supplied me with “I don’t celebrate Halloween, it is the day of the devil”… Okay. I can work with that. So I asked if he enjoyed his October the 31st, a nice warm day in the midst of autumn. He continued on his vein that a lot of people don’t know what Halloween stands for, how it has deep dark undercurrents, about horrible things people do to children… at which point my boss comes out to take care of the customer and I’m trying not to laugh in surprise and trying to hold my jaw up from gaping.

What?

I guess it’s a sign of how plugged in I am to the typical answers and have a preformatted conversation already going on in my head. I was guessing that he had kids and that he would say that he had a good halloween, took his kids out, passed out candy, something along these lines. Not say that the holiday is EVIL, which you know, to each their own. It was the way that he said it. The whole spiel in a dark whisper with backing aggression. Craaaazy.

So I guess I would like to thank this man, but not in person because I am a scaredycat, for breaking the monotony. But also, what on earth does he think people do to children on Halloween other than dress them up in costumes and provide them with candy which may in the future cause them to get diabetes? Halloween isn’t really cultish, at least that I’m aware of. But I may be biased in favor of any holiday where I can wear faerie wings to work and around town without looking like too much of a fool.

I’m going to have to Wikipedia Halloween and figure out just what the devil he’s talking about.