Tom Del Rosso wrote:
> Nancy Young wrote:
>> How much candy I bought:
>>
>> http://tinypic.com/r/16h5ctg/7
>>
>> How much I'll probably give away:
>>
>> http://tinypic.com/r/34j6rl2/7
>>
>> Hey, I can hope, can't I? And nothing wrong with leftover
>> Snickers Bars, I say.
>
> In NYC in the 70s when crime was at its peak, there was nothing
> stopping us from trick-or-treating within a radius of a block or two.
> In that area there were hundreds of apartments, and we all nearly
> filled our department store shopping bags (no little plastic pumpkin
> baskets for us) with candy that lasted until April.

I hear ya. I'd go around the projects with my friends. Really,
looking back, it's amazing how much freedom we had as kids.

> Today, with much lower crime stats, everybody's so scared by all the
> infotainment coverage of imagined dangers that they don't let their
> kids out as much.

Yeah, I haven't seen anyone offering to X-ray the candy lately, at
least. Heh.

> Now I'm on the border of the city in a suburban area and my bell rang
> once all day - on a Sunday!

I hadn't considered the religious angle, but I had more kids than I've
had in the last 3 years put together ... makes me wonder what kind
of heathens live around here! Just kidding.

nancy