Halloween Certainly Has Changed - Page 3
But all that seemed to dissapear into the night as my pillow case bulged with precious candy.
FREE CANDY!
Going back home with my "loot" for the evening, I always had mixed emotions. Should I have gone down one more street? Maybe get one more Crunch bar?
Of course since my sisters were much older, many times they would drop me off and go back out. But that didn't bother me. I was sweaty, tired and looking forward to the best part of the evening ...
which was the almighty candy sort.
Apples (why did people hand out apples?) and unwrapped candy were tossed immediately and all the yucky candy like Mary Janes and "old people hard candy" was thrown in the "icky" pile. My Dad always had dibbs on the Hershey candy bars with almonds, but I didn't mind one bit. It wasn't my favorite candy bar back then.
I think my favorite candy bars as a child were Milky Ways and Nestle Crunch Bars. Besides my other candy favorites, which were Candy Dots, Twizzlers, Chuckles, (not the green one) Good n Plenty, Pixie Stix, and Jujubes. I never liked the wax whistles and lips. I couldn't understand why kids would chew on those huge balls of wax. Yuck! Even back then I thought that was gross.
Ironically today, my favorite candy bar is the Hershey bar with almonds. I find it's simplicity equisite. *snicker*
But Good n Plenty and Twizzlers are still very dear to my heart.
So back to the trick or treating after glow....
My parents would let me choose a few pieces of candy to eat and then it was off to bed. Another one of my favorite holidays was done for the year. But at least the candy would last for weeks.
These days, I don't hand out candy on Halloween any more.
I used to.
I would make trays of goodie bags stuffed with candy and even dressed up to hand the candy out. But now I only make goodie bags for the little ones in my neighborhood of the families of whom I am friendly with.
I stopped handing out candy when I noticed that there were really BIG and much older kids that were trick or treating. College kids. Most of these older kids didn't even wear costumes when they came to my door. Apparently to them, wearing a "hoodie" with the hood up was considered costume.
Some of the kids, although younger, were being dropped off by their parents by CAR. An SUV would pull up on the corner of our street and about 5-8 kids would jump out. Can you imagine that? Trick or treating by car? That's all I would have to do is ask my parents to drive us around trick or treating. They would have laughed us into the following year. NOBODY did that back then. Besides, what fun would that have been?
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