Prom night is here – and I have finally, decisively, turned into my mother | Zoe Williams
She always believed Halloween was an Americanism too far. What would she have thought about the rise of this US high school tradition in Britain?
She always believed Halloween was an Americanism too far. What would she have thought about the rise of this US high school tradition in Britain? When I was young, and Halloween was just becoming a thing, and other people’s mums were doing fun stuff like blindfolding children and sticking their hands in a bowl of peeled grapes, calling them witches’ eyeballs, my mum was saying: “This is a disgusting Americanisation of what was previously a very low-key event.” I used to daydream about how great it would be to have one of those fun mums who didn’t hate America.
Imagine all the other stuff she might do! She might buy Pop-tarts just to see what they were like. We might go to Disneyland. Continue
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