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[susandennis]

One of the joys of living in a downtown condo is precious few children. Most people here who have babies move very soon thereafter. There is one 7-ish year old who lives down the hall and a handful of under 2's. I rarely have to deal with any of them which suits me perfectly.

Halloween, outside of candy corn, one of my least favorite times of year, gets basically ignored. For which I've always been grateful.

When I took the garbage down earlier, I saw some disturbing news on the bulletin board.

There's a woman who had her first baby this year who's now trying to whip up a Trick or Treat frenzy for the building. ARUGH. Happily, her notice does acknowledge that not everyone will be thrilled by this and it kind of sounds like she's building an opt-in plan. So I can just lock my door and stay out of the hallway on Oct.31. Easy to do. And I should not be annoyed by something I can easily ignore but turns out, I'm as petty as I can be!

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Breakfast made and et. Kitchen totally cleaned up and garbage taken to the dumpsters. All is good.

Comments

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

I just keep my lights turned off and don't answer the door.

[susandennis]

I'd love to ban kids in the hallway totally - not just Halloween! But, I am a coward. I'll just lock my door and stay inside and bitch on LJ. :)

[seattlejo.livejournal.com]

You know, she'd do better if she tried to organize a trunk or treat out in the stadium parking lot including folks with kids in that new apartment complex or others in the neighborhood. (Annie's kids?)

On the other hand, part of me thinks you should print a sign that says "Haunted" or "Beware of Witch" and set up a scary soundtrack coming from your apartment so kids won't be tempted to come by your place in the future either.

[cienna2000.livejournal.com]

My apartment complex (and the one I lived in previously) both required that if you wanted to participate in Halloween you post a sign. The sign is usually colored construction paper provided by the office in a Halloween shape. Kids are not supposed to knock on doors without the sign. Which is helpful since we do not control the lights outside the doors.

[badrobot68.livejournal.com]

People with children have to make everything in the world ALL ABOUT THEM and their kids. Luckily there are almost no kids in my building either, since it's all studio apartments.

[susandennis]

Those 55+ places are looking better and better.

[badrobot68.livejournal.com]

Maybe in 10 years I'll check them out!

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

OTOH, I've always enjoyed being spooky and weird at Hallowe'en: sitting in the front room with my face half black and half white, listening to spooky music and reading by the light of a single candle.

"Dracula" accent:
Goot evening! Please, help yourself. Just vun to a customer!
Don't let de cat out. I don't vant her to fly avay!
Be careful on your vay down. I don't vant your blood... on my steps.

Unfortunately, I've just moved from a row house to an apartment with no access for trick-or-treaters. Σ)-:

[ctgstr8.livejournal.com]

We live in a condo where children are not allowed to knock on doors. I like this arrangement. When we lived in a house, we had lots of kids. We don't miss their visits. (Guess what? We do not have grandchildren!)

[shutterbug.livejournal.com]

I even like kids and such, but boy do I hate Halloween. Gonna be hunkered down and hiding in the dark, as usual, again this year. However, with a new neighborhood, I am a bit curious to see if the trick or treat population here is better than the last...10 years of trick or treaters.