B.J. Walker Jr. > Quotes

“I’m afraid that soon Halloween will follow the path of the forgotten!  Now we have Christmas in July!  We have Christmas movies available year round!  First VHS, then DVD, and now internet streaming has made Christmas movies a year round”
― B.J. Walker Jr, Halloween, The Best Time of the Year

“Oh well!  I have my memories!  I still remember Halloween as a kid!”
― B.J. Walker Jr, Halloween, The Best Time of the Year

“As I said, during those decades we kids trick or treated by ourselves, walking the familiar neighborhoods without fear and totally safe!  I suppose that we weren’t as entirely safe as we thought!  Child molesters and the proverbial perverts are not new even though some politicians claim that perversion is a new concept thrust upon us by the liberal left!  Politics!  It may be that the “perverts” of those times were more afraid of being outed!  Kids in today’s world are told from early age to tell when they think things are wrong!  Of course, that “telling” has been abused time and time again with many innocent people being put through HELL just because some kid was pissed off because he didn’t get a second helping at snack time.  But back then,”
― B.J. Walker Jr, Halloween, The Best Time of the Year

“I grew up in a small town during a different time, a time where kids only trick or treated in their own neighborhoods.  Now?  I welcome the outsiders coming in because without them, we’d only have a half a dozen or so coming to the door!  Trick or treating is being replaced by church parties and”
― B.J. Walker Jr, Halloween, The Best Time of the Year

“Halloween is getting pushed out, becoming a second class holiday!  Halloween decorations start showing up in the stores in August and are gone by the second or third week”
― B.J. Walker Jr, Halloween, The Best Time of the Year

“All in all, my Halloween times were happy memorable times.  I loved Halloween, still do, but I guess all good things have to come to an end sometime, right?  I was approaching that terrible age of twelve!  According to my mother, twelve was”
― B.J. Walker Jr, Halloween, The Best Time of the Year

“these new trunk or treat parties. What is a “trunk or treat” party?  Well, instead of taking your kids throughout your neighborhood like millions have done before, you pull your car or SUV into a parking lot, decorate the trunk, and sit there while kids parade past your open trunks to trick or treat!  It’s supposed to be safer!  Maybe it is.  Personally, I do not recall seeing any great number of headlines reporting problems with traditional trick or treaters!  And as for church parties, well, I just remember”
― B.J. Walker Jr, Halloween, The Best Time of the Year