My experience with the Great Pumpkin

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There was a general feeling around the neighborhood that I always acted a bit peculiar during the month of October. Each year I got out a piece of my nicest stationery and wrote a letter to someone he called "the Great Pumpkin."

DEAR GREAT PUMPKIN, I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR ARRIVAL ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT.

It really annoyed Lucy, my sister, because she thought it made her look bad.

Snoopy thought it was the funniest thing he had ever heard.

The only person who thoughtI just might be right about the Great Pumpkin was Sally. She listened very carefully as I explained the whole story to her.

"Each year on Halloween night, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere and flies through the air with his pack of toys for all the good little children in the world."

The other kids on the block were much more interested in making costumes to wear when they went out that night for Tricks or Treats. Charlie Brown had a little trouble with the scissors and ended up looking more like a peeled potato. Lucy was proud of her witch's mask because she always said that a person should wear a costume that was in direct contrast to her actual personality. The most original costume, if you want to call it that, was worn by Snoopy, for he had found a flyer's helmet and goggles and a beautiful scarf. He looked exactly like a World War I flying ace.

Now, I had convinced Sally that going out for Tricks or Treats not only was a waste of time, but was downright wrong, for I maintained that the only way to celebrate Halloween was to sit in a pumpkin patch and wait for the arrival of the Great Pumpkin.

I told Sally that a person had to be very sincere in his waiting and never say, "If the Great Pumpkin comes," but always, "When the Great Pumpkin comes." "One little slip like that," I declared, "can cause the Great Pumpkin to pass you by!"

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Lucy, Charlie Brown, and their friends had just finished knocking at the door of a house asking for Tricks or Treats. Lucy had asked for an extra apple "for my stupid brother who can't come along because he is sitting in the pumpkin patch waiting for the Great Pumpkin."

Each looked into the bag he was carrying with him. After the others had said they had found things like cookies, candy, gum, and apples, Charlie Brown said, "All I got was a rock!"

No one noticed that Snoopy was missing. He had gone off by himself and had climbed on top of his dog-house, which he pretended was a World War I flying plane.

"Here's the World War I flying ace taking off in his Sopwith Camel." In his imagination he zoomed through the sky while anti-aircraft shells burst all around him. Just then he spotted the enemy plane he was looking for. It was the Red Baron!

Before Snoopy could turn his plane to the attack, the Red Baron swooped down upon him and riddled his plane with bullets.

Smoke poured from behind, and Snoopy fought desperately to control his plane. With amazing skill, he guided his badly damaged Sopwith Camel to a crash landing, and leaped out before the enemy could find him.

Now he had to make his way back across no-man's land to the areodrome.

In the meantime, Sally and I were still scanning the skies for the appearance of the Great Pumpkin. "I hope you haven't been trying to fool me," warned Sally, "and if you try to hold my hand, I'll slug you!"

"Listen!" I cried. "I hear something!"

There was a low rustle in the grass around the pumpkin patch.

Suddenly a strange silhouette appeared before their eyes. "It's the Great Pumpkin!" I shouted. "He is rising out of the pumpkin patch!"

I toppled over backward in a faint.

"I've been robbed!" shrieked Sally. "I waited all night in a pumpkin patch, and all I saw was a stupid beagle!"

She grabbed me by the front of my shirt and shook him until his eyes ratttled. "I believed in you! I missed Tr

 

awww...LOVE the Great Pumpkin..hope i see that this halloween...

 

It was on yesterday on some channel...

Raise a glass to Charlie Schultz who hasn't passed my gates.

 

The Great Pumpkin never came when I was around. Perhaps it had to do with those carved pumpkins we used to sit out front of our house.

 

I always thought of Linus as the type of boy with far too much time on his hands...but I nevers suspected him of anything as low as posting at the JC!

 

Linus rocks. I think he should be the next character for Peanuts on Parade. I mean first we had Snoopy, then Charlie Brown, and most recently, Lucy. It's definitely time for Linus.

 

I got a rock.

 

Aww that is cuuuute

-sithyyhtis-

 

"It was on yesterday on some channel..."

Dammit! I miss it every year.

Amazing.