Mischief Night 2021
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Unfortunately those consequences I was made to suffer as a result created a reticence in my personality for anything resembling a repeat performance.
Typically, I find vandalism and vandals abhorrent and will chastise and shun them.
Today is the vandal holiday known as Mischief Night. It is sometimes observed on November 4th or May 1st.
Typically the evening finds children and teenagers engaging in various pranks and yes ... even vandalism under the cover of darkness.
It is aka a variety of names including Devil's Night and Gate Night among others.
The observance goes back to the late 1700s where it is said to arise from the encouragement of a headmaster at a school play.
It hit the US newspapers around the 1930's and 1940's.
Here, the observance of Mischief Night is generally recognized as primarily a New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan phenomenon but they certainly don't have the only pranksters and vandals on the planet.
I have a long list of things to do on Mischief Night but decline to share these in an effort to suppress the ideas.
I view the entire notion as an excuse for the poorly behaved to act upon their less than civil impulses.
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Mischief Night