Halloween

Hi all.

Halloween worries me. I know that this "common" practice in America, but this has only really become common here, in the UK, in the last few years. I don't know if it's just because I'm not used to it, or whether I just don't like the idea of it (or it maybe even that I'm a "old" skin flint).

But the more that I hear of some of the stranger people that wander around in the dark, or the fact that some of the older members of our community are worried enough about what could/can happen to them, without having kids banging on the door, in the dark and scaring the hell out of them, that we should be shying away from "trick or treating".

Don't get me wrong , I don't particularly want to stop Kids being Kids, all I'm questioning is whether going from door to door, in the dark , is this this the way to do this?