Title: Dots Halloween Tradition
General Information About this Item:
- Tradition, workplace folklore
- Language: English
- Country of Origin: United States
- Informant: Informant #4
- Date Collected: 3/9/2018
Informant Data:
- The informant is an FO+M student employee who works in Hinman Mail Services. He is also a Dartmouth student in the class of 2021 hailing from Western Massachusetts. He is involved with a variety of activities across campus and considering majoring in mathematics.
Contextual Data:
- Hinman Mail Services decorates the area around the window every halloween. This year the informant was part of a group that started what he hopes is a new tradition governing the types of decorations adorning the window.
Item:
- The informant considers Dots to be the “scariest” halloween candy because he considers them to be terrible. Thus, he and his coworkers decorated the area around the window with Dots boxes to add a new, possibly frightening, element to the Hinman window’s halloween decor.
Transcript:
- “A tradition that we started this year, that I intend on carrying into the next year and subsequent years. At halloween we started decorating the window, just like putting out your standard like halloween decorations, and one of my coworkers and I decided that it wasn’t scary enough so we thought ‘what’s the scariest part of halloween’ and so naturally that was dots because they’re just terrible. So we just started taping dots just all around the window, and that’s something I’m planning on continuing.”
Collector’s Name: Jacob Cruger
Tags/Keywords:
- Tradition
- FO+M