> When my kids were small I drug them out on some really cold and wet
> Halloween nights for trick or treat. Fighting our way through dark
> yards and hoping they don't fall off some porch or trip on something in
> the dark.
>
> Cool development going to the mall instead where they have comfortably
> chairs and couches and generous merchants furnish the treats..
> Here are some pics from Rivergate last night.
> http://www.pbase.com/deadelvis/halo

> I don't mind if you want to take the kids to "The Big City" every
> couple of years to go trick or treating. Fine stuff. But last night it
> seemed like 80%% of kids were from elsewhere. Woodland street was
> impassable as the parents were mostly too fat and lazy to actually walk
> with their kids, so crept along in their Ford Escalades blasting music.
> So you had those kids from the far burbs that came in to take advantage
> of the generosity of East Nashville, then you had the hoodlums. Great
> roving gangs of them, sans costume, tho pants that show your ass crack
> are a bit theatrical dontcha think, carrying pillowcases and having the
> catch phrase, "gimme some candy."

>Wish the crowds over here in east Nashville had gone there instead. I'm
>fairly close to five points and the Lockeland School. People come from
>out of county and from all over the city to trick or treat 'round here.
>It used to be just a smattering, but has gotten out of control the past
>couple years.
>
>I don't mind if you want to take the kids to "The Big City" every
>couple of years to go trick or treating. Fine stuff. But last night it
>seemed like 80%% of kids were from elsewhere. Woodland street was
>impassable as the parents were mostly too fat and lazy to actually walk
>with their kids, so crept along in their Ford Escalades blasting music.
>So you had those kids from the far burbs that came in to take advantage
>of...

> On 1 Nov 2006 12:17:33 -0800, "maxo" gmail.com> wrote:

>> Wish the crowds over here in east Nashville had gone there instead. I'm
>> fairly close to five points and the Lockeland School. People come from
>> out of county and from all over the city to trick or treat 'round here.
>> It used to be just a smattering, but has gotten out of control the past
>> couple years.
>>
>> I don't mind if you want to take the kids to "The Big City" every
>> couple of years to go trick or treating. Fine stuff. But last night it
>> seemed like 80%% of kids were from elsewhere. Woodland street was
>> impassable as the parents were mostly too fat and lazy to actually walk
>> with their kids, so crept along in their Ford Escalades blasting music.
>> So you had those kids from the far burbs that came in to take advantage
>> of the generosity of East Nashville, then you had the hoodlums. Great
>> roving gangs of them, sans costume, tho pants that show your ass crack
>> are a bit theatrical dontcha think, carrying pillowcases and having the
>> catch phrase, "gimme some candy."

>
> Pretty much the same here in Dickson but probably a bit less ...

> Richard Thomas wrote:

>> On 1 Nov 2006 12:17:33 -0800, "maxo" gmail.com> wrote:

>>> Wish the crowds over here in east Nashville had gone there instead. I'm
>>> fairly close to five points and the Lockeland School. People come from
>>> out of county and from all over the city to trick or treat 'round here.
>>> It used to be just a smattering, but has gotten out of control the past
>>> couple years.
>>>
>>> I don't mind if you want to take the kids to "The Big City" every
>>> couple of years to go trick or treating. Fine stuff. But last night it
>>> seemed like 80%% of kids were from elsewhere. Woodland street was
>>> impassable as the parents were mostly too fat and lazy to actually walk
>>> with their kids, so crept along in their Ford Escalades blasting music.
>>> So you had those kids from the far burbs that came in to take advantage
>>> of the generosity of East Nashville, then you had the hoodlums. Great
>>> roving gangs of them, sans costume, tho pants that show your ass crack
>>> are a bit theatrical dontcha think, carrying pillowcases and having the
>>> catch phrase, "gimme some candy." ...

> It's a fun holiday, but I think it might have gotten just a little bit out
> of hand,

> parents are understandably fearful of letting 'em out all that much on that
> night.

>
> "jakdedert" bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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>> Richard Thomas wrote:

>>> On 1 Nov 2006 12:17:33 -0800, "maxo" gmail.com> wrote:

>>>> Wish the crowds over here in east Nashville had gone there instead. I'm
>>>> fairly close to five points and the Lockeland School. People come from
>>>> out of county and from all over the city to trick or treat 'round here.
>>>> It used to be just a smattering, but has gotten out of control the past
>>>> couple years.
>>>>
>>>> I don't mind if you want to take the kids to "The Big City" every
>>>> couple of years to go trick or treating. Fine stuff. But last night it
>>>> seemed like 80%% of kids were from elsewhere. Woodland street was
>>>> impassable as the parents were mostly too fat and lazy to actually walk
>>>> with their kids, so crept along in their Ford Escalades blasting music.
>>>> So you had those kids from the far burbs that came in to take advantage
>>>> of the generosity of East Nashville, then you had the hoodlums. Great ...

>
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>>
>> "jakdedert" bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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>>> Richard Thomas wrote:

>>>> On 1 Nov 2006 12:17:33 -0800, "maxo" gmail.com> wrote:

>>>>> Wish the crowds over here in east Nashville had gone there instead.
>>>>> I'm
>>>>> fairly close to five points and the Lockeland School. People come from
>>>>> out of county and from all over the city to trick or treat 'round
>>>>> here.
>>>>> It used to be just a smattering, but has gotten out of control the
>>>>> past
>>>>> couple years.
>>>>> ...