Do any of you old fogies like myself remember the time the Mayor of Lincoln officially changed the date trick or treating would take place because it snowed on October 31st? As if there’s a law on the books preventing kids from begging for candy door-to-door on any other days. It kind of reminds me of how Lincoln is changing the date of the annual Fourth of July fireworks display to July Third because some guy in a sleeveless flannel shirt from Pawnee City is doing a show at Memorial Stadium on Independence Day. Talk about messing with our cherished traditions. The next thing they’ll be celebrating Jesus’ birth on a day different than the one that he was actually born on. Oh...wait...we already do that. Since we’re already having Jesus’ birthday party several months after his actual birthday, assuming that is, that he was a real person, why not celebrate during the first week of December, rather than the last so that good honest American merchants could get a bigger boost from consumers who still had plenty of food stamps and Christmas bonuses? But back to the sleeveless guy on July 4th: why couldn’t we combine the two events? Shoot him out of a cannon at the beginning of the show and then blow him up at the end. Or maybe we can postpone the fireworks until October 31st and let kids trick or treat on July 3rd in honor of Jesus’ birthday? Think outside the box and ‘git’r done’
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