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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DaveStebbins" data-source="post: 1840825" data-attributes="member: 1427">We have specific hours around here (6-8 PM on Halloween for most of the area, except a couple of nearby counties). My apartment complex has auto-locking fire doors at the entrance to every floor, so I went to a buddy's house on the edge of the city. He and I both dressed up for it and so did his daughter and her two friends, who all spent the evening having fun running around the yard screaming and throwing leaves at each other. We must have had between 100 and 150 kids. He had a strict policy: no costume got you an eraser instead of candy. I don't think any of the no-costume kids noticed, as we never even got a dirty look. Even a bad attempt at a costume was good enough to get candy. Excellent costumes got a handful. We didn't mind older kids showing up, many of them obviously worked at their costumes and we gave out praise freely. We even had the girls running out to hand treats to the parents who stayed out on the sidewalk.We also had a bit of fun. He has a fog machine which would shoot out a jet of fog when we pressed a button. We set it down behind us and made lots of the kids jump. We didn't try to scare the really little kids and almost all the ones we did use it on smiled; many hung around to watch us use it again.-Dave</blockquote>