Trick or Treaters?

[clackamascoug]

Crazy sabbath honoring - maskless weirdos!

FIFY.

[Moliere]

Crazy sabbath-honoring weirdos!

I’m not so sure trick or treating is breaking the sabbath. I mean, if we had to pay for the candy then maybe it would be but it’s pretty much like borrowing a cup of sugar from your neighbor

[BigPiney]

I’m not so sure trick or treating is breaking the sabbath. I mean, if we had to pay for the candy then maybe it would be but it’s pretty much like borrowing a cup of sugar from your neighbor

My kids go trick or treating on sundays. It shows our neighbors we aren't weirdos and it is a fun family event. Win win.

[Scott R Nelson]

Last year I set out a sign: "Closed due to Covid" and didn't give away anything. This year we'll be in Utah the whole weekend so we'll just leave the place dark and hope none of the younger generation understand the original meaning of the "trick" part of trick or treat.

This way there is no Halloween candy around to tempt me to eat it.

I guess I'm the equivalent of "bah, humbug" for Halloween.

[BigPiney]

You are a grinch

[Clark Addison]

Here is my big complaint about trick or treating in my neighborhood. I have probably posted the same thing for the last three years since I am a grumpy and forgetful old man.

My kids are no longer young enough that I take them out, but I like trick or treaters. I enjoy sitting on my couch watching football, and then answering the door to see all the cute kids, and joking around with them and giving them candy. It's a lot of fun. But a few years ago, some of the idiots in my neighborhood decided that it was too much work for the kids to walk all the up to the door and ring the bell, so they decided to put a chair at the bottom of the driveway, sit with a bucket of candy, and hand it out as kids walk by.

I get WAY more upset about this than I should (ask my wife, she will confirm).

1. Why on earth would I give up my comfortable seat on my couch, with my TV in front of me, and go sit in a folding chair in the cold? Is there a good reason to subject myself to this? No, there is absolutely no reason.
2. Do we really need to make it easier for the kids to pile candy in their bag? Were they not getting enough candy before, so that we need to allow them to just walk down the street scooping up candy every few steps? For the record, the average lot in our neighborhood is 1/4 to 1/3 an acre. These kids are not walking a hundred yards between houses.
3. Maybe I could get on board if we were actually improving things for the kids, but we aren't. The fun of trick or treating is running up to a house, ringing the bell, waiting for them to answer. It's the journey and the anticipation. What my neighborhood has done is to turn it into the equivalent of walking down the Walmart candy aisle with a shovel. So we have diminished the experience for BOTH the parents and the children.

Needless to say, I refuse to participate. As a result, a lot of kids skip our house, as they see a bunch of neighbors out in their driveway and assume we are not home, or maybe just don't want to walk the extra 20 steps up to our door. I think I speak without hyperbole when I say that this practice is a symbol of the decay and decline of our civilization.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Here is my big complaint about trick or treating in my neighborhood. I have probably posted the same thing for the last three years since I am a grumpy and forgetful old man.

My kids are no longer young enough that I take them out, but I like trick or treaters. I enjoy sitting on my couch watching football, and then answering the door to see all the cute kids, and joking around with them and giving them candy. It's a lot of fun. But a few years ago, some of the idiots in my neighborhood decided that it was too much work for the kids to walk all the up to the door and ring the bell, so they decided to put a chair at the bottom of the driveway, sit with a bucket of candy, and hand it out as kids walk by.

I get WAY more upset about this than I should (ask my wife, she will confirm).

1. Why on earth would I give up my comfortable seat on my couch, with my TV in front of me, and go sit in a folding chair in the cold? Is there a good reason to subject myself to this? No, there is absolutely no reason.
2. Do we really need to make it easier for the kids to pile candy in their bag? Were they not getting enough candy before, so that we need to allow them to just walk down the street scooping up candy every few steps? For the record, the average lot in our neighborhood is 1/4 to 1/3 an acre. These kids are not walking a hundred yards between houses.
3. Maybe I could get on board if we were actually improving things for the kids, but we aren't. The fun of trick or treating is running up to a house, ringing the bell, waiting for them to answer. It's the journey and the anticipation. What my neighborhood has done is to turn it into the equivalent of walking down the Walmart candy aisle with a shovel. So we have diminished the experience for BOTH the parents and the children.

Needless to say, I refuse to participate. As a result, a lot of kids skip our house, as they see a bunch of neighbors out in their driveway and assume we are not home, or maybe just don't want to walk the extra 20 steps up to our door. I think I speak without hyperbole when I say that this practice is a symbol of the decay and decline of our civilization.

You should put a sign on your front yard encouraging them to ring the doorbell.

I agree, your neighbors are idiots.

[Pelado]

1. Why on earth would I give up my comfortable seat on my couch, with my TV in front of me, and go sit in a folding chair in the cold?

Amen, brother.

[The_Tick]

We are a full size candy bar family still.

[Jeff Lebowski]

We are a full size candy bar family still.

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[The_Tick]

That is awesome.