Lollygagging in Alhambra
Prose Potlatch Challenge-10/3023 total reviews
Comment from ~Dovey
Hi Mikey,
I like how you open with the scenario of the parents sending their children out to trick or treat alone for the night. A free night for parents and children alike. Then you transition into how that scenario applied to your childhood and contrasted to life today. I was thinking on a similar tangent. Thanks for sharing!
The technical stuff:
Pabst Blue Ribbon bear. (beer?)
warry older eye (wary?)
Great job!
Kim
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Hi Mikey,
I like how you open with the scenario of the parents sending their children out to trick or treat alone for the night. A free night for parents and children alike. Then you transition into how that scenario applied to your childhood and contrasted to life today. I was thinking on a similar tangent. Thanks for sharing!
The technical stuff:
Pabst Blue Ribbon bear. (beer?)
warry older eye (wary?)
Great job!
Kim
Comment Written 30-Oct-2016
Comment from barbara.wilkey
I enjoyed reading your post. You are one of the best on this site. I grew up in the Midwest we always had chili on Halloween Eve. It was perfect on a cool autumn evening.
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I enjoyed reading your post. You are one of the best on this site. I grew up in the Midwest we always had chili on Halloween Eve. It was perfect on a cool autumn evening.
Comment Written 30-Oct-2016
Comment from patcelaw
Michael this is a good prose. My father-in-law was a postal worker and carried mail to the San Marino area were the rich lived. One time Albert Einstein was in San marino and pop had to deliver a letter to him, which Einstein himself had to sigh for. Was quite the family story. Patricia
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Michael this is a good prose. My father-in-law was a postal worker and carried mail to the San Marino area were the rich lived. One time Albert Einstein was in San marino and pop had to deliver a letter to him, which Einstein himself had to sigh for. Was quite the family story. Patricia
Comment Written 30-Oct-2016
Comment from barkingdog
Those were the days. What's happened? Halloween used to be fun and safe. We'd go from door-to-door, no worries of poisoning or abduction. I guess that's why they call them the good-OLD-days.
Well, written piece, Mikie.
You took me back in time with Wyatt Erp. haha
:) e
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Those were the days. What's happened? Halloween used to be fun and safe. We'd go from door-to-door, no worries of poisoning or abduction. I guess that's why they call them the good-OLD-days.
Well, written piece, Mikie.
You took me back in time with Wyatt Erp. haha
:) e
Comment Written 30-Oct-2016
Comment from Barb Hensongispsaca
Lollygagging, yep that was one of mom's words, but always when I was daydreaming of things I thought was important.
Very nicely done, dear friend. No unlocked doors anymore
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Lollygagging, yep that was one of mom's words, but always when I was daydreaming of things I thought was important.
Very nicely done, dear friend. No unlocked doors anymore
Comment Written 30-Oct-2016
Comment from nancyjam
I enjoyed your memories of Halloween, back when it was safe for
kids to go out on their own.
I remember those days as well. The world's a different place though.
and that's kind of sad.
Thanks for sharing your memories and bringing back mine.
Well done.
Nancy
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I enjoyed your memories of Halloween, back when it was safe for
kids to go out on their own.
I remember those days as well. The world's a different place though.
and that's kind of sad.
Thanks for sharing your memories and bringing back mine.
Well done.
Nancy
Comment Written 30-Oct-2016
Comment from seaglass
We all believe our generational take of this holiday is the best. Guess it's because it created happy memories. You apparently had a lot of safe fun. Sadly a few bad apples have ruined it for kid, in our opinions. However, new traditions take the place of the old and seem to be pleasing children just fine.
In my childhood, I missed 3 Halloweens; one with mumps, one with chicken pox, and one with a bad reaction to the small pox vaccination. Bummer
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We all believe our generational take of this holiday is the best. Guess it's because it created happy memories. You apparently had a lot of safe fun. Sadly a few bad apples have ruined it for kid, in our opinions. However, new traditions take the place of the old and seem to be pleasing children just fine.
In my childhood, I missed 3 Halloweens; one with mumps, one with chicken pox, and one with a bad reaction to the small pox vaccination. Bummer
Comment Written 30-Oct-2016
Comment from damommy
Sounds like Halloween when my children were growing up. I enjoyed hearing about all your shenanigans.
Lollygagging is just hanging around, doing nothing, goofing off. I lollygag a lot. I'm always saying "I lollygagged around too long and didn't get to it," for instance.
Pabst Blue Ribbon [bear]
a [wary] older eye
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Sounds like Halloween when my children were growing up. I enjoyed hearing about all your shenanigans.
Lollygagging is just hanging around, doing nothing, goofing off. I lollygag a lot. I'm always saying "I lollygagged around too long and didn't get to it," for instance.
Pabst Blue Ribbon [bear]
a [wary] older eye
Comment Written 30-Oct-2016
Comment from Gloria ....
My goodness Mav, your opening sounds like Rob Zombie's opening to his version of the movie Halloween. LOL.
Pabst Blue Ribbon bear (beer)
The days when us (we) kids were
No fair! You actually got money? We only got money for our Unicef boxes.
Great sarcasm about your over-protective mother. Clearly you should've been allowed to go trick or treating far before the ripe old age of six. ;-)
I imagine trust issues and a warry (wary) older eye
and safety above all else as (is) a concern.
By the sounds of it you had a great deal of freedom back then. The streets were safer, or at least they seemed to be.
Great job with your potlatch memoir. :))
Ange
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My goodness Mav, your opening sounds like Rob Zombie's opening to his version of the movie Halloween. LOL.
Pabst Blue Ribbon bear (beer)
The days when us (we) kids were
No fair! You actually got money? We only got money for our Unicef boxes.
Great sarcasm about your over-protective mother. Clearly you should've been allowed to go trick or treating far before the ripe old age of six. ;-)
I imagine trust issues and a warry (wary) older eye
and safety above all else as (is) a concern.
By the sounds of it you had a great deal of freedom back then. The streets were safer, or at least they seemed to be.
Great job with your potlatch memoir. :))
Ange
Comment Written 30-Oct-2016
Comment from Dustybones
Lollygagging it seems has become old fashioned. Good essay of the changing times. Oh to Lollygag. Texting is the new Lollygag...not done face to face. Good to read of your good times back then. Now we're waiting for our first spooky visitor. chills-B
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Lollygagging it seems has become old fashioned. Good essay of the changing times. Oh to Lollygag. Texting is the new Lollygag...not done face to face. Good to read of your good times back then. Now we're waiting for our first spooky visitor. chills-B
Comment Written 30-Oct-2016
