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> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:04:43 -0700, "Bob Terwilliger"
> > wrote:
>
> >Nancy wrote:
> >
> >> I didn't know the secret. I always get a bunch of the regular
> >> sized bars, not those no-fun size. That always gets the kids
> >> jazzed, They have the Big Candy Bars! Amuses me.
> >>
> >> This year I picked up a box of assorted regular size bars. Who
> >> knew how much fun that would be ... watching kids go into brain
> >> freeze at having to choose which kind. Breathe! Breathe in!
> >> Shocked into silence, then, I don't know what to pick!
> >>
> >> Since I have upwards of 70 candy bars, I am happy to say,
> >> take two, since I doubt I'll get over 20 trick or treaters.
> >
> >I did that one year. Little brats coming back several times ruined it for
> >everybody.
>
> That's as annoying as the church vans that take kids from poor areas
> to nicer neighborhoods. Last year they picked our block. Luckily I
> saw them pull up. Not one van, but 3. LOADED!! I turned the lights
> off, bolted the doors, and closed the blinds. They alone would have
> wiped my candy supply out. I spent a couple hours cleaning the garage
> so the bell didn't drive me crazy.
>
> Lou
>

Around here they're poor enough that they can't afford to do that. The
are a I live in is very interesting. It's a mixture of upper-middle to
lower-middle to downright poor.