No Trick-or-Treating!

Trick or Treating still goes on, but I think it's just different than when we were all kids. Groups of children no longer roam the neighborhoods knocking on doors. It all seems to be centered on malls, and churches, and schools, and "trunk or treating." I think it's all a reflection of the paranoia people have about the times we live in.

My cousins and I would take off across the neighborhood on our own with no adult supervision. I would take my little brother trick or treating when I was a teenager. Now, I think parents want their kids celebrating Halloween in a safe and controlled environment.

 

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Exactly.

It felt we got a mercy-fuck when parents brought kids from just 3 houses in our neighborhood last night. I'm lucky those parents took pity on us and brought the kids by to see us before they went out and hit the big time trick-or-treating.

Here, it's also the "rich neighborhoods" that draw the crowds.

When I was little and lived on a single gravel road with houses far apart, if I went to the nearby neighborhood people would ask me where I lived as if they didn't appreciate my coming over.

 

I never agreed with trick or treating (even as a young kid). Maybe it's for the best.

 

There were less trick or treaters and also less people handing out candy last night than in previous years. It made me a little sad.

This one guy always dresses as Martin Luther and hands out religious tracts every year. He didnt disappoint last night

 

My grandchildren brought home "trinkets" from one elderly lady's house. That's what she let the kids pick from a bowl at her house.

One granddaughter has loved Zebra's her whole life so she got a nice pained enamel Zebra pin.

One got a little wooden box with a hinged lid; when you open the box there's a plastic lady bug with wiggling legs.

The other granddaughter picked a necklace for me. It's big beads, the color of dark red grapes and it's hand strung with copper wire wrap between the beads.

My grandson also picked a necklace for me. It's pretty lilac colored small beads that look like the beads he grabs for me a parades, except this is shorter and has a latch.

I thought the whole thing was the sweetest!

 

^thats really cool, I wish more people handed out trinkets instead of candy

 

I think she cleaned out her costume jewelry box but it was really just the neatest idea!

 

I remember being young and living in a very homogenized cul-de-sac neighborhood. The land on which the neighborhood stood had once been farmland. The old farmer who sold it for development still lived, alone, at the end of our street, in a very old farmhouse, very badly in need of repair. Kids being kids, made up stories about him: his house was haunted; he killed his family and that is why he is alone; he abducts and kills children; etc, etc, etc...

And growing up in the neighborhood, I never once questioned these foolish stories. Well one Halloween I repeated something I'd heard, and my mother flipped out. She was very disappointed that I'd say such horrible things about someone who turned out to just be a sweet and lonely old man. So she grabbed me by the wrist and marched my to the old man's house. I was like, "Mom, mom...you don't understand! No kids go trick or treating at his house. Any one who has ever tried was never seen again!!!"

Anyway, we rang the bell and the old man answered and was so happy, so grateful, and so caught off guard to have a trick or treater. Apparently, no kid had knocked on his door in ages. He gave me a bag of apples and dumped a bag of potato chips into my bag. The only candy he had were some hard candies, which he dropped--by the fistful--into my bag as well. He asked my mom if there were more kids coming and she sadly said, no, we were the only ones. I felt like shit for believing these stories about him. The following year, I made sure to hit his house first. My mom and I sent him Christmas cards. But he was in his 80s and within a couple of years, he had passed away, alone, his wife having died many years prior. I was grateful and humbled to have had the opportunity to know the real him--not the urban legend.

Anyway, that was the year I received a little humility for a treat. Best Halloween ever.

 

we did trick treat in the inlaws, they left but were not invited to any halloween parties so they went to a bar . there are a lot of kids in this neighborhood , not any really in mine . i give out handful of nerds, butterfingers, snickers, hershey, gum and more
my favoite was seth myers , i got it right away .

at work they didnt come up stairs only in the lobby of the closest 3 buildings , ours was one but I missed them . no big deal i seen some from the window.
shark was popoular there was 3 i could see, bear, iron man, princesses most were in those oneies things liike whole PJ coustum, they are under 5yrs old tho.

 

No trick or treaters. I am glad.

 

where i live, many of the places i have lived, i really don't expect to get any.
going to furry and other costuming oriented conventions a couple of times a year sort of makes up for it.

i always prepare, laying in the needed supplies, just on general principals.
i can always eat them later myself, which i inevitably do.

sometimes i think its just an excuse to buy little individually wrapped candies,
that i probably otherwise would not.

(oh and i'm neither glad nor sad. i do like seeing creative costuming,
but too much is wallmart off the rack plastic anyway.

more power to everyone who DOES do their own.
and to 'cottage' costume crafting artists)

 

Everybody's uptight and raises their kids to think they're better than everyone else anymore. Everyone's so focused on success and their careers...there's all these little micro-competitions, and it goes to such extremes that people don't even want their kids trick or treating, because the parents are so paranoid of what everyone thinks of them. Parents even make up their minds for the kids what their interests are. Everything is clean and sterile and safe and nobody trusts each other and everyone judges each other. Meanwhile their kids become more and more devoid of love.

 

i never seem to be home during trick or treat. and even if i was, i've never really lived in that kind of neighborhood. although my boss lives in the least shitty neighborhood in town and he said he had about 800 kids come through. i do think the trunk or treats and stupid shit like that are drawing a lot of kids away from the real thing. i've heard they have lines around the block for those. i don't know what kid has that kind of patience; when i was a kid i didn't want to wait if there was one group of kids at the house in front of me.

the preschoolers always trick or treat around the building at work. one little bitch just walked up and stole a whistle off my desk and put it in her bag. i told her teacher and just got a shrug in response.

 

My only American Halloween experience was in Roanoke Virginia. They shut the whole main street down for a huge party. Was cool. I tried to go in a club but apparently they weren't allowed to let me in because I was wearing a camo shirt. I said yeh but there's also a big fluoro orange 24 on it.
No.
What if I turn it inside out then?
Yes that will be fine.
Well I'm not. Lol.

Went to a pub instead. I also saw some people dressed as nascar drivers so we had some fun lol I remember meeting king Richard Petty And Dale Earnhardt that night.