D2's Fun Friday Five, Halloween Edition

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[gentleeleos.livejournal.com]

Halloween is not what it used to be when I was little. I'm showing my age, though. I grew up before the whole poison/razor blades/needles in the candy scares made parents so worried. Well, it hit at the tail-end of my childhood...when I was really too old to be trick-or-treating anyway. But, the Halloween of my childhood involved droves of children trick-or-treating, neighbors handing out homemade popcorn balls, candy apples, and cookies as well as candy (and the one neighbor who always handed out toothbrushes...we hated that). We had one neighbor who always put up a haunted house in their home...enter through the garage, exit through their front door...you'd go through a maze-like setup...their family members were dressed up as scary things (werewolves, witches, zombies) and would jump out at you...they'd have you put your hand in the bowl full of "eyeballs" which were really peeled grapes...or a bowl full of "guts" which was really some sort of cold, wet, cooked noodles...really cheesy stuff, but sooo much fun when you're a kid. People now would never let their kids go into someone's house like that. It's sad, really. Halloween is not what it used to be.