[mjohnson]

When I was a candy-grabbin munchkin (early 1980's) I would dream of those houses that bypassed the "one bubble gum ball in a cellophane pack" and the ubiquitous tiny Tootsie Roll-ito for the king of Halloween candy --- the Reeses Peanut Butter Cup.

Now I am a grown adult with my own house and my own neighborhood kids panhandling for sweets tonight.

It is no hardship for me to give the ever-dwindling number of trickotreeters what I only dreampt of as a child, the _PEANUT BUTTER CUP_.

I wonder if they have the same candy-hopes that I had twenty five years ago?

Will I go to He#% and/or suffer litigation if I give America's Children peanut tainted candy? Tonight I'm asking the incoming parents (if present) if peanuts are OK. Everyone gets the puny Tootsie things and Pop Rocks but only those with Parental Approval get the cups.

While there's an upside to this - every cup that doesn't get out tonight goes in my freezer for my eventual consumption, I'm still bummed. Am I paranoid? Are today's children going to miss out on the mighty Peanut Butter Cup? Did I really say "taint" earlier in this post?

I think I'm paranoid...

mike
'78SC

.....edited 'cause I can't spell mihgty