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Originally Posted by After Shock Media
I really do remember when you only came home trick or treating when your arms hurt from the weight of you lugging a pillow case which by now had been flung over your shoulder gripped white knuckled as there was very little fabric left to hold. You had already given up on leg cramps, they meant nothing. The only way a house was off limits was if there was tall weeds in the yard, broken windows, and obviously vacant. The only other possible way a house could deter you was perhaps a chain link fence and at least two dobermans off leashes. Lights out in a house only meant you must knock harder and be more persistent. You also felt extreme pity for any kid who was stuck with a plastic hand help pumpkin to hold candy in, you already knew it was barely a step above a flimsy paper bad whose handles would soon rip by the end of the first block. Hell the only real danger beyond said leg and arm cramps, was the parental theft factor as they "needed" to check your candy for all the possible "questionable" candy - that always seemed to be the better candy they would steal for themselves.
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Brilliantly stated. Except... for me the ones I had to worry about theiving my stash were my older brothers and sisters. Other than for the purposes of my protection my mom had no interest in candy, so she would check it over and then leave me to it. I had 4 older brothers and sister to worry about though. Well, three. my oldest sister was married and long gone when I was still small. But the rest, especially my two brothers who were too old to go out trick or treating themselves, used to pilfer my stash mercilessly. I prayed for a padlocked trunk to put my candy in, but never did get one.
And you're so bang on about those plastic pumpkins. The little plastic handle would invariably come loose once the thing got full too, and every year there were kids having to waste precious time picking their candy off the road or someone's lawn (or digging for it in the snow) because their pumpkin broke. ha ha