LobsterSan
MOT: kuboTEN
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My roommate and I just recently splurged on filling a huge bowl of candy for the little tykes should they come knocking on our door... when he brought up the point that he has found fewer and fewer customed candy lovers coming to his parent's house in the past few years. Anyone else notice this phenomenon? One issue brouhgt up is safety, or the lack thereof.
I am currently in college, and this is my first year living in a sort-of residential community and in a house, so I don't know the recent trends.
This comes after someone got held up in front of my house at gunpoint a couple nights ago. Earlier this semester somebody was screaming outside my window out of a moving car, yelling "help me!". I've also been mugged in my years at Berkeley, my old roommate has been robbed, and I have heard numerous police blotters of other such things happening. I know these incidents are only relevent here, in a semi-urban environment, but do people feel like their communities are less safe as well?
To relate this to headphones... ummm... well, for awhile after my mugging I was afraid to walk around with headphones for fear of someone sneaking up behind me. I'm a little better about it now, though I doubt I would were them if it were dark out.
Anyways, I hope I get at least a few trick-or-treaters this year... or else I'm going to have a really upset stomach from gobbling all that leftover candy.
I am currently in college, and this is my first year living in a sort-of residential community and in a house, so I don't know the recent trends.
This comes after someone got held up in front of my house at gunpoint a couple nights ago. Earlier this semester somebody was screaming outside my window out of a moving car, yelling "help me!". I've also been mugged in my years at Berkeley, my old roommate has been robbed, and I have heard numerous police blotters of other such things happening. I know these incidents are only relevent here, in a semi-urban environment, but do people feel like their communities are less safe as well?
To relate this to headphones... ummm... well, for awhile after my mugging I was afraid to walk around with headphones for fear of someone sneaking up behind me. I'm a little better about it now, though I doubt I would were them if it were dark out.
Anyways, I hope I get at least a few trick-or-treaters this year... or else I'm going to have a really upset stomach from gobbling all that leftover candy.