Disappointed, I Was

I was (cue Willie Nelson) on the road again yesterday. It began at the Electric Eel plant (all right, it began at home, but you know what I mean) in Springfield, Ohio followed by three deliveries in the Toledo area. I got back to Detroit with more money than when I left. It's a good feeling.

Anyway, there's this truck stop in the town of North Baltimore which is a regular, oh, I'm trying not to use the word stop again because it sounds bad to use the same word too often, um, place I visit for coffee and snacks. In this case it was for a breakfast burrito, which was very good, but also to see the Halloween decorations which are typically displayed in the concourse this time of year. They also go all out for Christmas; it's fun stuff to see.

But I was shocked as there were no Halloween decorations at all. Not the least bit. There's usually hulking skeletons and a ten foot tall 'death' all in black and holding a giant scythe, and all sorts of other regalia. Again, I was surprised to the point of shock.

Which leads to the question: was that their point? I was after all shocked, and isn't shocking folks the whole idea behind Halloween? Did they actually intend to shock by have nothing macabre on display? If so, well done, North Baltimore. Or am I thinking too hard?

Well, never that...