Is it just me, or did anyone else experience a complete lack of 'Halloween spirit?'
I found that fewer people than ever had joined in the festivities this year (at least in my neighborhood). Last year, we had about two hundred trick-or-treaters. The number today couldn't have been more than fifty. I noticed that, even at my school, people weren't as interested in the holiday, nor were the decorations nearly as extravagant as the previous year. I couldn't seem to find any explanation for this. The weather has been wonderful lately - it was about sixty or seventy degrees tonight with very little wind (welcome to the desert, where the winter is