Plenty of Trick or Treaters
I talk with people and they seem to lament the fact that trick or treating is dying. I don’t see it.
A number of people told me they had no one at their door. Others said they had one or two. Yet we had over 400 go through our yard haunt this year. What’s the deal?
Part of it is competition. Churches, civic groups, and others are all trying to convince parents that trick or treating is unsafe. It’s not. The whole idea that it is somehow unsafe makes me crazy. There are no sexual predators waiting to snatch children into their homes. Despite the urban myths, there are no razor blades in apples or candy laced with poison. And airports around the world statistically never find tampered candy with their scanners.
The whole idea that trick or treating is unsafe is based on irrational fears, and as a result there are neighborhoods with little activity. Meanwhile, the ones that are active grow, as parents drive to drop of children in them. There were multiple hayrides passing by our haunt as groups of kids visited the neighborhood. Clearly people want to trick or treat….
So we at Weatherly Manor thank the hundreds that came by for having the guts to buck the growing paranoia. And we promise, the pictures will be coming soon.
