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.

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.

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


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