Riddle me this Batman.

The standard of Halloween Trick or Treating etiquette has always been, "If the front light is on, the homeowner has candy to hand out." Am I right?

So now that villages and towns across the land have deemed that T&Ting should occur between the hours of 3pm and 7pm, how does this work? Currently in my neighborhood it is still very much daylight and won't be full on dark until almost 7pm. Especially since the switch to Daylight Savings Time has been moved back one weekend. I could turn my light on but I doubt anyone would notice.

The other bah-humbug (or should that be bat-humbug for Halloween? But then that makes it sound like a Jewish coming of age celebration for witches or something...) I have about today's festivities is the current trend to just take your kids to the closest mega-subdivision and let them have at it. I no longer get my neighbor's kids coming to my door. Instead they are two neighborhoods over swindling those poor suckers out of KitKats and Reese Cups. I also feel a little bad about the homeowners in those subdivisions but then I remember how annoyed I was when they all built their houses and started overcrowding our schools and clogging our roads with their SUVs.

So anyhow, here I sit with a half-full bag of candy, an invisible light on and every stupid ghost/paranormal show ever made in the past 10 years on my television.