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Here ya go for a true story from Michagan's Upper Peninsula. My sister lives on the edge of wilderness yet not far from a town of 20,000. Her location does have a lot of children aged 8-15 years of age. Well she went into town for dinner but decided to leave a large dish of candy out on here front porch. When she came back the kids in costume had long ago stopped by and used the honor system of helping yourself to the candy. My sister knew the kids didn't take all the candy because paying a visit to the candy bowl as she drove into the drive was a 200 lb black bear. Needless to say the bear violated all honor system ideals.
Probably 30-40, based on how much candy was left over (easy to count because we only give out big candy bars). With that said, while there are a lot of houses packed close together around here, not many had their lights on. It was kind of sad. So were some of the amounts of candy in the bags kids were carrying to the door, even amongst kids who showed up around 7:30-7:45. A lot of the bags had barely anything in them.
Yeah, I wish I had given more candy out to the kids who came by because it didn't look like many houses on my street had their lights on. We did see a kid who already came by (we were sitting on the porch) and told him to come back for seconds lol He seemed happy
It was fairly busy for me in the first hour and then slowed to a trickle in the second. The last small groups around 7:30 or so got more than one bar since it was obvious things had slowed down. The makeup of the kids that came was a fair bit different this year too, I had a lot of 12-14 year olds this year, when last year I had almost all kids under 10. There weren't many kids age 5-10 this year at all, mainly older kids or toddlers that parents (or much older siblings) were carrying around. It was kind of odd.
Troy Hill had trick-or-treaters absolutely everywhere -- it was really nice. Got home from the grocery store at 6:00, had to get the bus to a surprise party at 6:30, so I just sat outside and handed out candy for ~25 minutes, but I'd say 20-30 kids stopped by in that time. And according to friends who grew up here, it was a slow one.
We got fewer than last year, but still maybe around 136 kids in Swissvale. A few without costumes; not sure what the deal is there.
At least they were kids. When I lived in Highland Park, there were a few adults going around to get candy.
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