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I remember making costumes and the old style plastic that didn't give you much a view so always tripping and falling.
posted by
Annicita
on October 1, 2020 at 7:44 PM
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As TAPS and others said, you have brought back so many memories and I enjoyed your post. It seems there are always people like a scary neighbor - but one with a gun! Yikes.
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on October 1, 2020 at 6:46 PM
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Happy Halloween
I love the way you presented Halloween! It really is fun for all the kids but it can be scary too. I went out trick-or-treating and so did all my kids. We had rules and my kids had rules to follow. I would always go with my children from door to door until the boys got too big and wanted to go with their friends. Then I would take my daughter and her friends. It would almost always rain on Halloween and my daughter hated the mask. They were hot and sweaty and she was just reminding me of that fact this morning when we were watching the news together.
The kids always got so much candy but we would make them bring it home and we would go through each piece to make sure it was safe to eat. Home always looked good when we walked up the drive. It gets chilly walking block after block in the rain. It's what memories are made of and now we can laugh about it.
Our village does not allow trick-or-treating from door to door. They have Halloween parties at City Hall. They have contests on who has the best costume and that's always fun for the kids. The most important thing is that they are all safe. I'm not sure this year if the kids will get to celebrate Halloween. Everything has changed since the pandemic.
Thanks for sharing such an awesome post!
posted by
Goldiec
on October 1, 2020 at 2:03 PM
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There are still people like Old man Coleman around. Grumpy to the point of evil. Well now of course there are the Proud Boys roaming around.
posted by
Kabu
on October 1, 2020 at 10:53 AM
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Somehow Halloween never took off here, I cannot remember it happening until maybe
years later. I think your culture was more generous at that time. Of course we had Guy Fawkes.
posted by
C_C_T
on October 1, 2020 at 7:42 AM
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I love it! Mr. Coleman would scare any kid, good or bad.
Your Halloween tale is the perfect campfire story. I love how you added history and elements from another era. Such a cool story and typical of your amazing writing skills where your story-telling puts us there in the middle of the action. 
posted by
Sherri_G
on October 1, 2020 at 7:22 AM
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You have brought back lots of memories. So many of yours are similar to mine.
posted by
TAPS.
on October 1, 2020 at 6:31 AM
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