On Friday, November 1, 2013 3:51:32 PM UTC-6, Julie Bove wrote:

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> > So, how was your turnout?
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> I didn't count and we missed two big groups because husband just sat there
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> and didn't answer the door. By the time I got there, they were gone. I did
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> do the math and based on what remained, I'd say that we got about 65 kids.
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> The Sour Patch Kids went first. *Note to self, buy two boxes next year*.
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> Then the Skittles. Not too many of the Twizzlers went. The year that I had
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> the long ones, they were well liked. But I bought the Nibs this time. Full
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> sized packages. I got them at Winco and that is the only form that they
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> sell. Won't get those again either. And nobody took the Snyder's pretzels.
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> *sigh*
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> > I only had a pathetic 28 drop-ins last night, a far cry from the 75-80+
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> > I'd easily get within an hour down at the apartment complex. (Guess I'd
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> > forgotten how much housing-area Hallowe'ens suck!) Weather down here at
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> > 2030 PDT (closing time) was partly cloudy and dry, ~58 degrees. Some fog
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> > over the fields.
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> I don't know where these kids came from. I only answered the door about 7
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> times and they all were Latino. I only know of one Latino family near us.
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> Their daughter is a year younger than mine and she did not come. Lots of
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> very little kids. No little kids that I know of that live near us. We did
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> get one bunch that we know. The girl is two years younger than my daughter.
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> They used to be friends but grew apart as they aged. She has two younger
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> brothers. But... Daughter is 15 now and not too many kids of that age go
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> out. Some do but this year we didn't see many older ones at all and no
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> adults. I bought the pretzels for the adults because in the past we got
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> what appeared to be homeless people just looking for food.

You let these kids/people "help themselves" and get a choice of what
they take? I would NEVER do that...they get what I want to give them.