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sandgk;649168; said:
First, I'm all for the kids having fun, getting dressed up and getting their candy - it is, as S & G reports the adults who end up being the dickheads.

Living in Da Burg it was the absolute worst.

Halloween was typically run from 6 through 8 on an evening. You could count on the neighborhood kids coming by. At least, in our first year there, that was what what we had in mind would happen.

Instead of that relaxed and laid back chance to hand out the goodies to Tom and Beth from #2018 what we received was a seemingly never-ending parade of groups of kids. None of whom were from the neighborhood, nor the adjacent developments. They were being brought in by Passenger van, by bus. They were walking over a couple of miles to make it from their borough into ours. All in the name of maxing out on the candy. The ones driving this out-of-control train were not the kids, it was the parents.

These interlopers would arrive like a swarm of locusts - devouring the contents of every dish of candy. Changing the time of the Candy give-away didn't help, somehow, through a secret underground network these roving bands of poorly costumed candy cravers, and their parents-in-crime found out the new time. In truth that didn't matter to the worst interlopers. "Your Halloween is from 6 to 8? That's stupid!" quoth one visiting parent (passel full of kids of all ages in tow), "Why yes, and that's why the candy is all gone." (And if you lived remotely close to here you would know this, it was writ large in the Neighborhood newsletter). Woe bedite anyone that didn't have remaining gimmes. The wrath of those importuning parents was upon you!

After the first year, I asked the neighbors if this was a regular thing. They shook their heads and said yes. In fact, once they had cleaned out our streets it was off to another development to run through their offerings - and as I indicated above, many had no compunction about when they turned up.

Beginning the next year I took to holding aside bags (generous ones) of candy for the neighbors kids. Made sure they got theirs. Then when these unknown folks that we didn't see but one evening per year, who didn't know me, or my family, turned up they got their choice of candy from a bowl left outside by the door. And, should one of these other locusts have been greedy enough to take more than their share, so what? I reckoned that they could divvy it all up when they got back into their caravan of cars and passenger vans and buses.

Oh, yes and Happy Halloween.
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That's why I put razor blades in the apples :banger:
 
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We were invited to a Duke faculty home party this evening for Halloween. About 100 kids lined up in a parade and worked their way through a neighborhood. People had gone to lots of trouble to put up lights and have nice candy for the kids.

It was a great experience for an American kid who has never been in America for Halloween and much better than our annual family Halloween bash in South Africa.

My highlight of the evening came in the Rose's store in the University Mall in Chapel Hill, where we stopped so the kids could experience the great Halloween party they have. Rose's has a very large display of UNC Tar Heel clothing. When a UNC homer at Rose's tried to convince me that the UNC brand was the most sold on any clothing in the world, I laughed thinking it was some kind of Halloween joke. Really pissed him off.

I met a guy who is in charge of licensing of NFL brands for clothing (a Buckeye alumni) a couple of years ago at Fisher College of Business. He told a class there that Ohio State clothing outsells all other schools. I think I'll stick with that.

Happy Halloween.
 
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