Hurrah for Halloween
Re: “Halloween gripers are pumpkin heads,” by Jacquielynn Floyd, Friday Metro column.
I enjoyed Jacquielynn Floyd’s column about Halloween gripers, and she is absolutely right. My husband and I have no children at home, yet we have great fun with Halloween. We have spooky decorations at the door, and we also dress up. The kids love it, and so do we.
We live in a very nice neighborhood, and it is obvious that some of the children ringing our doorbell don’t live nearby. We could not care less. It is candy and children, two things that go together regardless of parent income. Every child coming to our door on Halloween gets candy. The joy we have in seeing their costumes and excited little faces is more than enough compensation for our expense on candy.
Susan Giardina, Allen
A kid’s take on Halloween
I am a 13-year-old boy who went trick-or-treating this year. I didn’t trick-or-treat in my neighborhood because my parents went to a Halloween party. They had a son so I went trick-or-treating with him and several others who were about my age. My mom stayed behind to hand out candy and came to the party later.
The neighborhood I was in was about equal to the neighborhood that I live in. It was equal to mine, but it wasn’t my neighborhood. After we went trick-or-treating, we walked back to the house and traded candy while watching The Simpsons.
My mom said that when she was a kid, it was a thrill to go to a better neighborhood to trick-or-treat. Now she tries to make our house the one that everyone wants to come to. She even bought a case of regular-size candy bars, mixed them in, and handed them out to the other kids.
Joshua Fick, Carrollton