Happy All Hollows Eve to All

[Fairlight]

At Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 07:40:23PM -0500 or thereabouts, 
suspect Bob Stockler was observed uttering:
> When I was a kid we didn't do trick or treat - we just did
> the former . . .
> 
>   o - soaped windows on houses and cars (if we liked the owners)
> 
>   o - candled windows on houses and cars (of unliked owners)
> 
>   o - put garbage cans on top of garage roofs (very unliked owners)
> 
>   o - hung garbage cans on utility poles on the thingies used 
>       by utility workers to climb them (ditto above)

Nowadays half that stuff is probably deemed "terrorist acts".  :-/

> I never was a pumpkin destroyer, but some kids liked to take
> the jack-o-lanterns off of folk's porches or steps and smash
> them in the middle of the street.

Weapons of mash destruction were needed, I assume?  

> Or, this was in the days before door chimes, we'd push the
> doorbell button and stick a pin in it to keep it ringing.

Ding, dong, ditch has been illegal since -I- was a kid.  At least.

> Ah, those were the days . . .

They do not make them as they once did.

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