oh yeah, for the first time in 5 years, we had trick or treaters. this also happened to be the first year that i didn’t buy candy for trick or treaters, so imagine my surprise when i hear knocking at my door and i find a couple of trick or treaters waiting for candy. i found some candy that i had bought for myself and gave them the last two pieces that i had. so sad.

but when i was a kid, if we didn’t get candy, man! i would be so upset! but here’s my take on trick or treating. you really want to get the most candy possible with the least amount of work. as a kid, walking around with a big take gets tiresome and so you don’t want to stray too far from your home, nor do you want to have to walk far to get lots of candy. my friends and i had a system where we first scouted out all the neighborhoods and came up with a plan on which neighborhoods we should hit first. who had the best candy? who was the closest?

after we worked that out, we set out to get our stash of candy. we planned it so that we would work our way back to our homes in the middle of our candy collection so that we can empty out our bags at home to lighten the load. we would choose neighborhoods that had lots of small homes close together instead of the rich places with big houses far apart.

my parents now reside in a house that is in a very hilly area with houses farther and fewer in number than i would like, so i would skip out on places like that and opt for nice flat, high density areas.

now, i live in an apartment complex. this would be GREAT for trick or treating, but only on the lower level. i would never climb flights of stairs to get a piece of candy…it just isn’t worth it. so i was particularly surprised to see these trick or treaters coming up a flight of stairs to get candy…it just doesn’t happen. but it did and they took my last two pieces of candy. *sigh*