"Olin"
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news:Id-dnRi42o6JZdTYnZ2dnUVZ_rWdnZ2d@comcast.com...>> 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."
>>>
>>> Pretty much the same here in Dickson but probably a bit less
>>> ass-cracky. The road jams-up with cars. There's a car park about 50
>>> yards thataway but I think these people think that legs are just there
>>> to fill out the pants that came with their suit jacket.
>>>
>>> Since it's not a holiday I grew up with, I find it very hard not to be
>>> cynical about it. I don't really suppose that hanging out on street
>>> corners and haranguing passers-by for "A penny for the guy" was really
>>> any better. Probably healthier though.
>>>
>> Uncharacteristically slow here in HWEN. Some years it's been somewhat as
>> describe above--usually better--a lot of imports, but a pretty good
>> neighborhood for Halloween. Last year was the last for a particularly
>> good private haunted house.
>>
>> I saw maybe 50 kids, many neighbors in a couple of hours. Sadly my 10 yo
>> was in California with her mother and missed the event (she dressed up
>> and handed out candy on the plane.). Consequently, I just realized that
>> I missed my first trick or treat walk in probably 16 years.
>>
>> I did walk the dog up the street to find a bit more action at the other
>> end.
>>
>
> Have no clue at all what it was like in our neighborhood. The last time I
> saw the outside Haloween night was coming home from work, just after dark,
> still suffering from that ridiculous cold. It's better now, thanks to the
> cool air and rain yesterday, but I don't think we had a single kid (not
> even the late arriving ass-crackers). One of our neighbors spent a good
> couple hours removing leaves from his yard and placing them in trash bags
> that looked like big pumpkins... sat out a lighted pumpkin and hoped for
> some kids to wander down our not-all-that-well-lighted cul-de-sac.
>
> It's a fun holiday, but I think it might have gotten just a little bit out
> of hand, and most of the fun has been taken out for the little kids, whose
> parents are understandably fearful of letting 'em out all that much on
> that night.
We had 166 of the little bast . . . precious children, give or take a few
when the groups were so large it was difficult to count. My neighbor said
they had over 200. He and his wife teach so I guess that's possible. We
shut it down when the trick or treaters are 6' tall, smell like liquor,
their pirate tattoos are real, and they are putting out their cig's on our
walk before they ring the door bell.
