I live in an apartment and no kids come by. I can't remember the last time a
kid came to my door on Halloween.

I remember when I was a kid we used to go out for 3 hours, starting as soon as
it started getting dark.

It was 1982 when the practice of kids going to strangers houses for Halloween
effectively ended. About a month before Halloween that year, the Tylenol
poisoning occured, and there were other copycat incidents across the country
and people died from tainted products. Halloween as we knew it was cancelled
that year. At that point, the malls picked up the slack and started handing
out candy to kids because parents were terrified to let their kids go to every
house in the neighborhood to get candy. I'm sure parents will take their kids
to houses where they know the people living there, but never to people they
don't know.

Michael O'Connor - Modern Renaissance Man

"I actually thought about voting for John Kerry before I decided to vote
against him."