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Originally Posted by Hitch
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
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Yeah, Halloween gets me in fogey mode. It was such a blast when I was a kid; you were out at night, you could roam all over town and stay out late, it was so social! At least here only the little ones go out with an adult; the biggest danger is from dark streets and no sidewalks, not from human menace. Although I think the danger from human menace is vastly overstated in most cases and kids have to be brought up to "solo" at some point. It's bizarre to me that in this age of cell phone penetration to an absurdly young age which should be a total game-changer in terms of latitude given to a kid, the exact opposite has occurred.
Oh, for the days when a kid only had to show up at dinner time!
(I managed to offload most of my candy; I was hit by one big group. Phew!)