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Originally Posted by issybird
This is a freaking disaster. After 6 PM and not a single trick-or-treater. I never get many and I always overbuy the candy because I'd hate to run out, but none?
I suppose that the issue is its having been rescheduled from last night (people here are weird), when it was postponed because of widespread power outages and road closures from the wind storm the night before. A lot of people still don't have power (got mine back!) and I bet a lot of the kids are going to parties tonight, scheduled when it was thought they'd be trick or treating last night.
Whatever the reason, that doesn't solve my candy problem. Anyone who shows up from now on will do very well indeed. Worth the trip, folks! Because what is left will be eaten, alas.
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We haven't had trick-or-treaters in 10 years. Ever since we moved up here, in this rural area. Here, a kid could hit 3 houses, maybe 4, in 30 minutes--in the suburbs, they could hit 10+ in the same amount of time, and they'd walk their butts off, up here, trying to even hit a total of 30 homes. So...not surprised, but like everyone else here, I buy candy--just "in case." I hate having it leftover at the house, too.
It's kind of sad to see what's happened to Halloween. When I was a kid--in the burbs, more or less, we'd hit 100+ houses in a night; everybody would be out and about, or ready in their Living Rooms; some folks, on less-frigid nights, would sit in their driveways or porches, with bowls/bags of candy, to welcome trick-n-treaters. It's sad now that parents are afraid to let kids go out T&T'ing, afraid to let them go out with friends, or even in a group with some responsible adult. Afraid that they'll get razor blades or crack or meth or worse. These safe-zone Halloween parties just don't seem the same, to me.
{shrug} Sad.
Hitch