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By the time I got home and ready to give out candy at 5:35 there were already a few kids on the street. Another record year:
28 kids by 6:00
92 kids by 6:30
100 kids by 6:35
147 kids by 7:00
200 kids by 7:11
222 kids by 7:30
240 kids by 8:00
250 kids by 8:15 or so, and then nothing until 9:15
261 kids by 9:30. The after-dinner kids are mostly well costumed 12-15 year olds in a small number of large groups. They're much less shy about ringing doorbells than the little kids are. I think there were still another dozen of them out there who might have come by if we hadn't shut off the porch light in order to go fetch take-out and watch Shaun of the Dead. I wonder if those kids have been out there all along or if this is a new phenomenon.

A bunch of us on the block are thinking that next year it is time to get the city to close the street.

Comments

Me = in Australia

[cricketk.livejournal.com]

!!!!

Is that standard?

I think I know one person who bothered to have lollies on hand and they didn't get a single participant.

I think it would be fun to have Halloween in your street.

Re: Me = in Australia

[palmwiz.livejournal.com]

It's not unusual for trick-or-treating to be very localized with parents driving their kids to a "safe" neighborhood, often defined as one where other parents take their kids. Typically a kid will hit a couple dozen houses, and so you'd expect a couple dozen kids at each house on average, but the standard deviation is huge.

This year was unusually good weather for late October. I'm not sure if the 25% increase over last year was because of that or because word is getting out about out neighborhood. I'm thinking more the latter because the weather was pretty pleasant last year too.