I Love The Halloween Season =)

[Dagan]

A comedian once called it the night of teasing pedo's in their neighborhood because you are sending your children up to their door, but they are either costumed to not let them see how cute they are, or they are all made up to look even cuter than ever. The whole time, you know that they feel us parents staring them down through the whole process of taking their candy, and there's no chance for shenanigans, so they also get that extra dose of unfulfillment, shame and guilt.

Horrible but still funny.

 

[velociraptor]

Horrible but still funny.

Speaking as someone who was abused as a kid, it's just horrible. Not funny at all.

 

[Dagan]

Apologies. The only laughter is towards those bad folks being shamed and the absurdity of what can even do so.

They get to live in neighborhoods, still. Laws protect them. Etc. The fact that one night of the year may technically allow parents to make them feel uncomfortable and then some - no legal ramifications - it's absurd.

 

[Judge]

Whenever I think about Halloween, I think of it largely in terms of the distant past.

When Halloween was strictly an innocent occasion for children- not adults. When there was one main and dominant commercial entity involved- confectioners.

What to me amounts to yet another bygone era. My brother and I had so much fun each year trying to invent new ways to frighten kids at the door who would always get a generous amount of goodies.

 

[Mary Terry]

Whenever I think about Halloween, I think of it largely in terms of the distant past.

When Halloween was strictly an innocent occasion for children- not adults. When there was one main and dominant commercial entity involved- confectioners.

What to me amounts to yet another bygone era.

So true. No one I know lets their kids go trick-or-treating in unfamiliar subdivisions or urban areas anymore. "Trunk or treat" events on private property by invitation only are increasingly common here. I buy just a little token candy for kids and make pigs (well, mummies) in blankets for everyone. One year I bought cheap, plastic flashlights for $1 each at the dollar store and handed them out instead of candy. Kids loved them.

 

[Mary Terry]

So true. No one I know lets their kids go trick-or-treating in unfamiliar subdivisions or urban areas anymore. "Trunk or treat" events on private property by invitation only are increasingly common here. I buy just a little token candy for kids and make pigs (well, mummies) in blankets for everyone. One year I bought cheap, plastic flashlights for $1 each at the dollar store and handed them out instead of candy. Kids loved them.

I'm really showing my age, but back when we were young, we made our own costumes from scratch. My brothers and I spent weeks planning and making our costumes for the big night. These days, kids scream for store-bought costumes, and they all end up wearing the same, boring thing. And then the costumes end up in the landfill the following week.