"When I Was Your Age..."

morgantruce
Sat, 30 Oct 2004 21:45:09 +0000

When I was your age… any kid savvy enough to cross the street was allowed to go out “trick or treating” without partental supervision or armed guard. We favored the candy we received but also carried home a large number of apples—which our parents did not feel obligated to x-ray for foreign objects. More costumes were made from things found in closets than things found in stores.



No, it wasn’t all roses and Norman Rockwell. We had a dreadful fear of polio which was making the annual rounds, but I think that would have been preferred to todays fear of strangers who prey on young children and put nasty things in their apples.