Devil's Night--a history lesson
I am still catching up on thoughts that I had a week ago--so apologies. Once, while living out east, I was talking about birthdays with a friend. When I told him that my birthday is on October 30th, I quickly said, "ha ha, yeah I know...Devil's Night...how fitting, right?" This programmed response was due to the fact that whenever I had told anyone when my birthday was, they made some crack about how it was perfect that someone like me (prone to evil --insert Dr. Evil's voice here--behavior) should be born on Devil's Night. My friend however, looked at me like I was nuts, and said, "What the hell is Devil's Nights?" So, today a mini history lesson about Devil's Night . Devil's Night is the night before Halloween (October 30th), and starting around the end of WWII, it was a night of mischief when people would go out and soap windows or tee pee houses or something. Somehow those foolish shennanigans turned into something more mean spirit...