An Unsolicited Rant on a Pet Peeve
In this day and age when one of the number one adult complaints is that kids are on their cell phone or computer all the time, what’s the deal with teaching them that getting the maximum amount of candy with the minimum amount of interaction is a good deal? Yes, I speak of Trunk or Treat, Satan’s plan to take out possibly the only redeeming quality of a day devoted to skeletons and witches: time spent going to the neighbors with your parents in the dark in one of the best seasons of the year. Honestly, I feel like our neighborhood is as full of drug dealers and pedophiles as any in America (with the possible exception of everywhere else in America), and I am as confident as anyone that death lurks at every corner. But when I read about kids in New York and Chicago who get to go Trick or Treating, I get jealous. My friends in Denver and LA are walking their kids up and down their block teaching them that their neighbors are ordinary people, not treacherous goblins that nee...