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October Has Been Served an Eviction Notice
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I’ve had it.
I’m officially done with October.
I’m tired of creepy cemeteries, haunted houses, mysterious footsteps, and things that go bump in the night. I’m tired of pumpkin spice invading everything from coffee to toilet paper. And if I see one more apple festival, somebody’s getting a Granny Smith shoved up their nose.
October has completely lost its mind.
Yesterday, I went to the grocery store for milk. I passed three pumpkin patches, four cider stands, two hayrides, and a woman dressed as an enormous apple directing traffic.
By the time I got home, my neighbor had installed a twelve-foot skeleton holding a pumpkin spice latte.
That was it.
I marched outside, slapped an eviction notice on the biggest pumpkin on my porch, and informed October that its services were no longer required.
October refused to leave.
Apparently, it has squatter’s rights.
Within an hour, the Pumpkin Spice Association had hired an attorney. The local apple festival committee organized a protest on my lawn. Twelve inflatable ghosts blocked my driveway, chanting, “FOUR MORE…
