Lemon's drop-inn

[npixelz]

Mock trials sound fun!
Good noon!

[dragoness129]

Yep, it is now afternoon.
Watch, by next post it will be evening.

[npixelz]

Nope! Still afternoon!

[dragoness129]

Well, it was close to it.

[Lemon Cheesecake]

well, its evening for me. I could hardly keep my eyes open all day and the head ache came back this afternoon

any Halloween events planned this week end?

[Watery Star]

ellos again!

I have no plans besides trying to be available for trick-or-treaters.

[dragoness129]

I wanna take the girls trick or treating, but my husband just wants to buy the candy ourselves for them and not let them go out. He's paranoid about all the bad stuff that could be in the candy, razor and cyanide type stuff.

[Lemon Cheesecake]

dragoness, I can't say I blame him if you are in a new area and don't know people but if you are at your Mom's aren't there people she knows who could tell you who is "safer" to go to on their street (I think you said you are in the country so that would mean you'd have to go into town?). Or just drive them around to her friends?

Another option is businesses here give out candy to trick or treater's and churches here do a carnival idea where kids get candy for playing the games. I wouldn't recommend dressing as anything scary for the Churches though. Some clubs have costume parties open to the public and there is generally a haunted house event somewhere.

But it does help the kids to learn not everything is as it appears to be. Our families rule is not to eat any fruit or home made items ( like popcorn balls) or unwrapped candy unless it was from friends and if the wrapper looked funky we had to toss the candy. Even the fruit can be cut up before you eat it but syringing poison into the items is harder to detect and if you are in a state that say legalizes marajuana candy and brownies I might be more concerned.

I know a fun part of Halloween is how much stash you get but it is also the dressing up so there should be a way to work a bit of both. Check your local newspaper or community events section of your t.v. station online to see if there is anything near you.

[Diana]

AFAIK, the poison in the candies was a myth; I think it was some guy used poison in candy as an excuse to cover up the death of his nephew who had injected himself with the uncle's drugs and OD'd.
Ah, I may have been wrong:
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/poison/halloween.asp


Razor blades are a different story.
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/mayhem/needles.asp


Buuut you should check your candy anyways because some candy gets melty and stuck to the wrapper and is yuck.

[Mousy]

My mom would always check my candy for "Bad Candy" like what you were talking about, but it was all just a clever ruse. She just wanted to take all of my tootsie rolls and eat them.

[Lemon Cheesecake]

clever Mom

[npixelz]

Same withmy mom, cept she wanted Reese cups.

[Lemon Cheesecake]

mmm reese's peanut butter cups....mmmmm...maybe I should look through your candy bags too...

[npixelz]

Haha!
No candy for me this year. I had to give it to little kids. I had hoped there'd be extras, but we ran out.

[Lemon Cheesecake]

the girl I work with brought in all her extra candy because no one came to their door!