Re: The Halloween Racket


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On Oct 31, 7:46 pm, Sheldon <PENMAR...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Oct 31, 7:53?pm, "JoeSpareBedroom" <dishborea...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



"Ms P" <ms_peac...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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"Mark Thorson" <nos...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quoting from an e-mail received today:

"Kids are literally shuttled and bussed into my neighborhood, known
to have good pickings. Juvenile population temporarily increases
twentyfold. (I bet there are maps or Web sites that direct people
to
such neighborhoods.)"

There's a neighborhood like that here. Last year that neighborhood
closed
their streets to cars. If you wanted to trick or treat there you had
to
walk in. I know a few people that live in that neighborhood and they
have
all told me they buy the cheapest candy you can get and each kid gets
1
piece. Yeah, it's worth the drive and the hassle for a bag full of
Smarties and jawbreakers.

Ms P

Check the parents who do that. For the most part, they're fat pigs
who'll be
stealing the candy when their little rats go to sleep.

Think about what you just said... do you really think the junk-food-a-
holics are going to exert themselves humping their excavator butts
house to house for tiny packets of candy corn and red hots when they
can be lazing at home in front of the tube scoffing down forklift
loads of brownies and cookie dough ice cream. The only parents I see
hustling around with their kids are built like super fit marathon
jocks. This year I'm handing out mini almond joy and reese's cups...
I somehow get the feeling they wished I was handing out raw carrots
and celery stalks instead.

Reese's PB Cups are my 5 YO's favorite.
I felt that way too when I was a kid, and I also loved Almond Joys.

The absolute worst was these horrible things called Circus Peanuts.

Sheldon

--Bryan



Youngest is now 12, so when it rained on the appointed night (last Friday) I
said no go. What the local townships do around here is assign trick or
treat nights and hours so you can shuttle the kids from area to area to make
the biggest haul. I have always had a problem with that, as Halloween is
the 31st of October, not some convenient night for greedy beggers. Loved
Halloween when we lived in Philly. We lived in a twin with a fenced front
yard. Hubby, or Uncle and Aunt one year, took the littlest out (the big one
had his own group of friends he roamed with) while I sat on the porch giving
out treats. Since there was always the threat of 'unwrapped candy' or
'things stuck in candy bars' a couple of weeks before the big night, I went
around to the local grocers buying cases of canned soda at 10 cents a can
(Acme always ran those on special) and I gave out soda as a treat......the
kids loved it. My only problem was after the first year of doing that, I
started noticing 15-16 year olds, then 20-30 year olds coming up going
'trick or treat' and holding out a bag. So I made a sign for the next
year......If you are old enough to go to a costume party at a high school or
club (they were always being held at local bars) you are too old to ask me
for candy......If you are over 12 or out of the 6th grade, do not enter.
There were some grousers, but a number of parents thanked me, as they had to
go out after they came home from work with their kidlets and a lot of the
'bigger' kids had already cleaned out some of the houses. And no, there were
no pranks pulled, other than the usual on Mischeif night, in which all the
cars got soaped, or something similar.
-ginny



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