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Default Who needs Halloween?

On Oct 12, 11:05*pm, "Pico Rico" > wrote:
> "Malcom "Mal" Reynolds" > wrote in ...
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> >I like candy as much as the next person, even though I have to restrict
> >myself
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> > But what I hate is that Halloween should be an universal holiday, a
> > holiday for
> > everyone to collect as much candy as they can...but the kids have taken
> > over a
> > perfectly good holiday.

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> > So for the last few years I have practiced Reverse Trick or Treat. When
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> > comes to my door, before they can say ToT, I say it. They look confused
> > and I
> > tell them that because I have to stay home to give them candy is no reason
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> > should be deprived of the same joy. Still confused I tell them that as
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> > they give me some candy, I will give them candy. Some balk, some laugh,
> > but most
> > will put some candy in my ToT bag and then I give them the candy I've
> > bought for
> > the occasion. The upside is that if I run out of my candy I can give out
> > what
> > I've collected.

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> > Of course I don't do this to the ultra-minnies as they wouldn't
> > understand, but
> > then again, what do they really understand about Halloween anyway?

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> > So I urge all of you to practice Reverse Trick or Treat...if for no other
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> > than that it is quite funny

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> sounds like way too much effort. *I just hide with all the lights out. *Like
> every other night.


I give the little buggers dollar pancakes or sliced salami.