In article >, Margaret Suran
> wrote:

> A few weeks ago, I bragged about how well I treat the kids in my
> building. Now I have to confess that things have changed.
>
> For many years now, twenty five or so, I have prepared little bags
> full of Halloween candy for the trick or treaters in our building, a
> high rise with several hundred apartment, as well as very small gifts
> for the really small babies and toddlers, for whom I would have small
> gifts.
>
> Yesterday I prepared eighty little bags with candy, with lots more in
> reserve and today I went to the building manager and asked how many
> children eighteen months and younger there are in our building. The
> answer floored me: There are fifty or more, many, many of them less
> than a year old. As a matter of fact, the man thought there may be
> quite a few more!
>
> This year, for the first time, I will not buy gifts for the tiniest.
> When I filled out the "please come for trick or treat" sheet, I didn't
> ask the babies and toddlers to come. It would be much too expensive.
> In former years, there were five or ten, perhaps a dozen. I hope
> that the parents will bring them around in spite of it, to show off to
> all the neighbors. A few will get what I bought ahead of time. ) M

Give 'em M&Ms. "-) You know, real candy.
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