The past couple of years, the amount of kids out on Halloween has dwindled down in my neighborhood. This year, my wife and I were at her cousin’s house and we saw maybe a couple of kids walking around. My wife blames people going to Trunk or Treat things. We both work in retail, so we see more of the public, and nobody was in costume. What was everybody’s experience with Halloween this year?
The past decade or so where I live, almost without fail, there’s a huge rain or thunderstorm on Halloween that makes it absolutely miserable to trick-or-treat. You have to wear a jacket and if you wear face paint it just runs and you can’t see. The very last time I went out about 8 years ago, the storm was so bad it nearly ripped a chainlink fence off its posts and the people giving out candy just dumped their whole bowl in my bag because they knew nobody else would come.