"Usual" Halloween
Why am I not surprised that 1. Trick or Treat is scheduled for tonight instead of actual Halloween night or 2. the weather channel is predicting cold and rain? I don't think Pennsylvania children expect anything but poor weather for trick or treat, it's got to be cold at least. What I'm confused over is the local community's need for a Thursday trick or treat. Oh, just 10 miles away the communities insist on SUNDAY AFTERNOON for their children, 1 to 4pm is soooo spooky isn't it? I'm getting to the point where I want to say, if you can't do it right why don't you just quit? There's been urban legends of candy tampering since my childhood ages ago so trick or treat has been dying since the late 1970s. The trick or treat in the shopping mall lets the small kiddies show off and get their booty, perhaps we could pump that up? And haunted houses do fine for the teens, perhaps a good public party could cap that off and then Halloween is covered. I'd miss seeing the kids from the laziness of my own home, but since I have trees and they shed wet leaves I may be saving myself from a lawsuit should one of the lovely princesses or skeletons slip and fall. Has Halloween changed that much or I am just getting too old?