People Watching

I never realized how interesting people watching can be. Here I am, sitting in a van while the rest of my family shops for groceries in a small farm grocery store. I laugh as I watch the little kid that's overweight for his age carry the pumpkin that he wanted so badly into his equally overweight mother's truck. What a pair. There's another woman, and she's got a camera around her neck. A bald man walks beside me. A kid in those stupid heelies rides by (why don't they ever fall???)

Anyways, it's October. The month of Halloween. There are only a few things I like about Halloween.

• There's lots of candy, even if I don't get to go door to door.
• I get to be artistic;
• I carve a pumpkin, but instead of a face or something like that, I peel just the skin off, so that the light can shine through, and that makes it a lot easier to create intricate designs.
• I create my sister's halloween costume. Last year I made an iPod that was as tall as me. And it looked so realistic. This year I'm making a Starbucks cup, with a giant head of foam for whipped cream.

But other than that, I don't really like all of Halloween. To me, the idea of making things with the only purpose of scaring others just doesn't make any sense. That's really the reason I am so opposed to making a horror film. In my upbringing, I have not seen horror movies. It's really something that has been passed on by my parents. I the idea of making something that my parents don't approve of just doesn't work with me.

Is there any polite way of asking someone who's smoking to stop? It's just that even though I'm appalled by people who are addicted to poisoning themselves, I can't bring myself to get them to stop. [End of post - I ran out of time]