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MineralMan

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15. My wife and I tell the teen trick-or-treaters,

Reply to msanthrope (Reply #6)

Sun Mar 17, 2013, 10:41 AM

Mar 2013

"Wow! You look just like an American teenager. Cool!" Then we give them the same thing we give all of the kids who come.

I remember trick-or-treating as a younger teen. We got pretty much the same treatment. We stopped doing it at about 15. Instead, we had water balloon wars among ourselves on Halloween.

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This article is blowing up Philly. And it's about to blow up nationally [View all] cali Mar 2013 OP

100% support and solidarity for Mayor Nutter, one of the great people in the nation graham4anything Mar 2013 #1

Yet the same Nutter is trying to break the city unions BumRushDaShow Mar 2013 #10

Teachers too proud2BlibKansan Mar 2013 #18

I am a white woman. I work in predominantly black neighborhoods, often being the only white person Squinch Mar 2013 #2

Robert Huber is not a woman. He is the writer. cali Mar 2013 #3

Wow, thanks. I don't know why I thought it was a woman, even after reading the whole thing. Squinch Mar 2013 #5

I would have liked Mr. Huber to interview some of the long-time Black homeowners south of Girard. msanthrope Mar 2013 #9

I'll defer to your knowledge, as a resident of the community being discussed, BUT Squinch Mar 2013 #12

I respectfully disagree with you on a particular point--not one of those interviewed would have msanthrope Mar 2013 #19

OK. I am probably missing some nuances that are clear to people in the local area. Squinch Mar 2013 #21

Very cogent points about the "seemingly permanent black underclass"...... socialist_n_TN Mar 2013 #14

The author observes something Shivering Jemmy Mar 2013 #4

Ahem--this is where I live. The exact neighborhood. And I know every, single person he talked to. msanthrope Mar 2013 #6

Thank you - Halloween ever since I can remember . . . hatrack Mar 2013 #7

Exactly....no teen dresses up, and they are all a bit snotty...so my husband and I msanthrope Mar 2013 #8

Yup. Most as they get older don't dress up, but still want free candy. graham4anything Mar 2013 #11

My wife and I tell the teen trick-or-treaters, MineralMan Mar 2013 #15

Last year, one paused long enough from her smartphone to snap my picture, in full costume, msanthrope Mar 2013 #16

We love it. This past year we had almost 200 MineralMan Mar 2013 #17

I get at least 300. I've got a reputation. I know how to make a toe-pincher msanthrope Mar 2013 #20

Every so often when the local media is bored BumRushDaShow Mar 2013 #13