Halloween

Halloween

Today is Halloween and it brings back memories when I was young. My friends and I didn't have much money so we made a plan for Trick Or Tweet. We didn't have money for costumes so we put our shirt on backward and put on different colored masks over our eyes. 

The plan was simple. We didn't want to Trick Or Tweet in our neighborhood because all we would get was a few pieces of candy or worst yet, have to come into a neighbor's house so we could get an apple. Our goal was to find houses that gave out a few pennies or a nickel.

We would walk miles to a neighborhood of middle to upper middle class families (the real rich people were too far away). BTW, in the fifties a kid could walk alone without being beat-up or shot.

Once in the neighborhood we would seek out the money givers and communicate to each other who they were. Then we would switch shirts and masks so the other kid could go to the same house. We did get a lot of candy (no apples because these families took one look at us and would not let us inside) and by our standards a lot of money. AAH! Those were the good old days. 

Today, kids have to go with their parents (or they risk death) and unless someone gives you a dollar it's better to get candy because candy today is expensive and pennies or even a nickel isn't worth a shit. 

As adults we would have the most fun at Halloween parties. We made our own costumes which brought out the creative juices in all of us. One of my favorites was a friend who came in a tee shirt with a cereal box pasted on one side of his shirt and a bloody axe pasted on the other side of his shirt - Cereal Killer! 

Today, the store bought costumes are fantastic (if you can afford them) and the people who love Halloween are very nice. However, many homes don't even turn on their lights because they're afraid a kid in a costume might be carrying a gun. 

AAH! Halloween Is Just Not As Much Fun As The Good Old Days