The “Sweetest Day” happens to fall two weeks before kids with pumpkin lanterns come to your doorsteps begging for candies and sweets. It’s even two to three months away from Valentines. How October 16th became the sweetest day apart from Valentine’s Day, only candy businesses knew. It’s all part of the hype, and probably too much sugar in the blood that makes your brain cells churn out fantastic ideas.
So blame the candy holiday to these sweet guys of Cleveland, Ohio who in 1922 came up with a brilliant way of selling their candies, with some dose of charity – remembering the unfortunate and cherishing the goodness of having friends and families. It wasn’t so bad after all, despite the fact that until now Hallmark remains to be the culprit behind every weird holiday celebrations. Who knows, even the most trivial stuff like rubber stamps might get itself a place in the calendar.
I was with a group of kids last Sunday for a balloon-twisting lesson. Ralph, the balloon-twist guy, taught us basic animal shapes and other stuff like swords and flowers. Watching him do it was somewhat scary as we didn’t want balloons to pop right before our faces. But somehow the experience turned out to be okay.
