In another episode of odd conversations that take place over the entertainment dinner table:
I mean, what is Halloween anyway? It’s not even a holiday..
This was uttered by our newest team member, who’s a very nice young lady from South Africa, where Halloween is not really a thing.
Beat of silence, our sound tech takes a breath to respond, I beat him to it
Actually, it’s a pagan tradition more properly known as Samhain that originates with the concept of All Saint’s Day, which is preceded by All Soul’s Eve, which is believed to be the only point in the year when the spirits of the dead can cross over the viel to communicate with the living, however, because it’s also a night where evil spirits can have influence people would don masks in order to hide from them, and leave out offerings to appease them that’s….where the…costumes….came from
At this point I sort of trail off and refocus my attention on my ice cream
Oh..
And the sound tech looks up from his own dessert, shrugs and says
yup, what she said..
For some reason this made me smile…more than a little.