Tonight, will you put on a porch light and wait for goblins and ghosts to show at the door? Do you have a supply of bad goodies for their teeth? Will you ooh and aah at their costumes, direct from Wal-Mart?I have good memories of Halloween. We went out in small groups, cruising the streets and scooping up bags of sweet loot. Nobody ever pulled any vandalism, other than soap on windows and TP in the trees. Later we got too old for that stuff and began to hold costume parties and dances.
Today's kids face many Halloween hazards, according to this bulletin from the Illinois Department of Health. Traffic, mean dogs, and sickos who hand out tainted candy; it's enough to make a kid stay at home!
Hope you have an enjoyable evening. And . . . BOO!
2 comments:
On Capitol Avenue the biggest hazard on Halloween was Harold Reynolds and his cronies who always stalked Phyllis Rising and me to steal our candy. It was a toss-up whether we were more scared of the boys or the nice people in the next block who made us perform a song, dance, poem, whatever in their living room before handing out the goodies. I wish kids could just have fun on Halloween like we did.
Barbara Mitchell
It seems to me that we went out 'trick or treating' 2 or 3 nights, not just halloween. We wore costumes that were homemade-- gypsy, hobo, pirate--and often had to layer clothes because of the cold. I had forgotten about the encore requests. One of my cousins went to a family halloween party as Cyrano D'Bergerac (I know that's misspelled) and recited an entire speech! Jeez!
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