With the dubious safety of Trick or Treating under pandemic conditions, a safer way was needed for helping the kid develop diabetes. And fortunately, such a project lay within my own childhood experiences: a piñata!
For the uninitiated, this involves inflating a balloon and coating it with hundreds of glue-soaked newspaper strips.
Then the balloon gets popped and removed from the now rigid structure (after it dries of course). The resulting cavity is then packed with the aforementioned diabetes-inducing abominations.
After taping over the hole, the piñata must be decorated…by gluing thousands of tissue paper squares in a pleasing arrangement. Specifically, they must be glued in a crinkle method to enhance texture and notable cheer. Look at all that family cheer in the above photo!
Photos are then taken, for a piñata’s existence is very…ephemeral. (Hey! That’s the name of this blog!)
Piñata’s are then hung by the chimney with care…I mean honeysuckle.
And smashed to oblivion violently with a blunt object! Releasing their diabetic contents upon the sanitary dirt. Mother-in-laws assess the situation and offer insight.
Then it’s immolated, to signify life’s return to dust and ashes, or for luck, or because Dad doesn’t want another dust collector hanging around.
So ends the COVID-19 Halloween. Happy Halloween everyone!
–Simon