"If we stopped, literally mobs of kids would descend on us IN THE STREET, digging in with their own hands into our wagon, grabbing great handfuls of candy IN BETWEEN the VWs!"
Reminds me of Mardi Gras in the late 60's, early 70's before the parade routes were barricaded. The parades would stall and the floats would get mobbed by people wanting beads and trinket trash.
Good Morning ALL: beautiful day in theshire; turned a couple clocks back, glad the 'puter does it automatically. Great day for de-gardening. Gypsygirl got a long walk up the northern part of route today, walked back through downtown, checking out the new pavements and see what gets 'improved' next. btw, the stores are filling the windows with Christmas froofraw, gimcracks and geegaws.
It was insane. Hundreds of kids and their parents just let them swarm out into the street and grab candy from our wagon. Unbelievable. It was a true mob mentality and awesome to behold in a way...at one point I shrieked at Matthew "RUN!"
And because you had to put the candy in the bucket of each child, if you missed one, the parent would scream at you!!! We were running, so we missed a lot and got screamed at a lot. I felt really bad for the boys...
I saw a side of my boys though that I have never seen before...a "get 'er done" attitude that didn't wane the entire parade route.
I told them next year, we'll have my Beetle running and I'll drive it and they can just sit in the back seat, eat great handfuls of candy and stare at the crowd! LOL!