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I enjoy the twerps. The outfits are fun. Some don't bother. Teens you know. Too cool for even don a mask, not too cool to beg for candy. Been there, done that. A good neighborhood though. And to see a few older young women taking children around is good. In some places giving is a treat, like here. Full size candy bars go over well.
I was so afraid I was going to be short, I bought more. It took days to be well enough to get out. Got cat litter too, which I wish to use tonight. Way too much candy, but I know a few older lads who no longer trick or treat. Of course I will expect them to share.
I truly enjoy when it works. When I am ready, set up, able. I wish I could offer them something better. But that is not how it works. And it is once a year. I wonder how many realize the social good, from this, in good neighborhoods. They get to see older different folk aren't too horrible, and we get to buy them off too serious of troubles. :p I enjoy seeing what they might dress as. Super hero, clown, magician, princess... can't always tell.
My size throws them. Some find it difficult to approach, but two massive bowls of full size candy bars has their fear melt right away. I also let the parent or adult have a bar. Lord knows, they deserve it. Must be quite a chore attempting to herd excited children. Oh, it is a treat. If possible I will always have more than needed. Perhaps handing two out from the start. Later, or good night.
If I know for a fact we're going to have trick-or-treaters, I offer up culls and duplicates from my comic book collection. That sort of puts a bit of a pause in the little yard apes, but there it is.
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I would have been initially confused, but would have loved that as a kid. Not so sure about the princess types, but I would have traded candy for those myself. When I wasn't reading Poe, Twain, even Plato, I was feasting on comics, even as a knee-high. Never enough, especially low hanging fruit.
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