Halloween has changed a lot since I was a kid.  I would get dressed up and walk around the neighborhood trick or treating.  When I was younger I would go with my parents and as I got older I was allowed to go with my friends.  I always stayed in our neighborhood or if I was at a friends house their neighborhood.  These days kids I have never seen before come to my house begging for candy.  I drive by the bus stop every day and I know they aren’t from my community.  Then if you are giving out something good the kids come back two or three times.  Last year a kid came back five minutes after he left with his mask turned inside out.  The first time he was Superman.  The second time he was inside out mask Superman.  I asked him if he had been here before and he said no.  I shut the door.  He could have at least said he was Bizarro Superman or “I’m inside out mask Superman, now give me some candy.”  I would have given him a Tootsie Roll for being clever.  Then there are the parents that drive the kids from house to house.  What ever happend to walking?  Is it any wonder that there is a childhood obesity problem when your kid is to lazy to walk from house to house?  If it wasn’t so expensive I would hand out bug filled candy to those trick or treaters.  While novel no kid is going to return for seconds on a worm lollipop.  The problem is the candies are expensive.  I might go the Charlie Brown route and just hand out rocks to strange and greedy kids.  Rocks are cheap.