Temptation!

The place:Bartells! The siren: Halloween Aisle! Goofy scary well-designed ghouls, plastic skinned, some battery operated, calling calling calling to me as I march in for some medicine refills and juice! But I resisted- despite the crepe paper archway and the beckoning mechanical hands; and it was hard! just one more dancing pirate skeleton who removes his skull to disco songs couldn't hurt too much could it? I pictured it the landfill 70 years from now urging the trash to "Get down tonight!" and when that actually made me laugh I thought about the fact that it was most likely made by some child working day and night under horrible diress for 70 some odd cents a day and then I could walk away-no lingering pull, no unsatisfied yen.