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[comfortablygray]

I remember my daughter's first few Halloweens. My wife Sandra was very adamant about everything looking perfect and the baby being in very cute, specific things, and everybody was very excited when they came to the door because what's cuter than a baby dressed like a lobster

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[orderonto]

Not a huge fan of international dress like a prostitute day, Bennet?

[comfortablygray]

I like Halloween.

And most prostitutes dress very well, statistically.

[orderonto]

I'm with-holding judgment until Halloween is over. This is my first. Molly's eleventh. It's a little awkward.

I wouldn't know.

[comfortablygray]

I don't know about awkward. Educational, maybe.

One of my co-workers had a bit of a problem, and it took us a while to notice. Which is surprising, since we're all pretty close-knit at Primatech. It was fairly surprising.

[dreamsofnoah]

Mine aren't.

[comfortablygray]

I get the impression most peoples aren't. Do you miss them?

[dreamsofnoah]

Of course I do.

Not that I see them much at home.

[comfortablygray]

I believe that's the biggest drawback to this place, even moreso than being displaced. I miss my son, too. And my wife.

Do they work a lot?

[playstheblues]

A lobster, huh?

[comfortablygray]

It was that or a bumble bee, and I wasn't sure how I felt about making my daughter an insect.

... Lobsters at least get to hang out with mermaids, or something.

[playstheblues]

So do you think she'll get mad when she sees the entry?

[comfortablygray]

I don't see why. She was a very cute lobster.

[comfortablygray]

Yeah, but I don't think anybody would come. I bet Claire's going to go to some teenage nightclub and leave me having an anxiety attack in the apartment with slippers and cupcakes.

[orderonto]

[elevatorwarrior]

A lobster? Poor kid... why would ya do that? I don't get this whole Halloween thing.

[comfortablygray]

Because it was one of the only things left in the store, and after much deliberation, it seemed the least degrading choice.

[elevatorwarrior]

That kinda makes sense... but why do ya dress her up in the first place? Where I'm from we don't.

[comfortablygray]

Well, on Earth, we have a lot of cultures that have evolved over the years into face-value traditions. Halloween supposedly has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain, which was a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, or Celtic New Year. Traditionally, the festival was a time used by the ancient pagans to take stock of supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores. They believed that on October 31, now known as Halloween, the boundary between the living and the dead dissolved, and the dead become dangerous for the living by causing problems such as sickness or damaged crops. The festivals would frequently involve bonfires, into which bones of slaughtered livestock were thrown. Costumes and masks were also worn at the festivals in an attempt to mimic the evil spirits or placate them