My "No Cold Callers" sign must be faulty!

Hermia

snugglepet20 wrote: »

Aw you lot are so mean I love halloween, the kids look so cute. Buy a bag a sweeties you misery guts (except maybe Whitehorse :eek:). I take my kids trick or treating and I hate the people who don't answer their doors when they are clearly in. A 2 quid bag of sweets could make 20 kids really happy, it's one night a year.

Unfortunately where I live it's not cute little kids who go trick and treating, it's troublemakers and teenagers just trying to get some freebies. The last few times I have stupidly opened the front door it's been a bunch of teenagers standing there not even bothering with costumes who got nasty when I wouldn't give them anything. The very last time I opened the door it was a group of men in their late teens and early twenties and they tried to push my door open as I tried to close it. One year I had to spend ages helping my elderly neighbour clean her hallway as some kids had thrown loads of eggs through the door when she said she didn't have any sweets. I now just don't open the door as I live on my own and don't think it's worth the risk.

tamarto

snugglepet20 wrote: »

Aw you lot are so mean I love halloween, the kids look so cute. Buy a bag a sweeties you misery guts (except maybe Whitehorse :eek:). I take my kids trick or treating and I hate the people who don't answer their doors when they are clearly in. A 2 quid bag of sweets could make 20 kids really happy, it's one night a year.

See i wont take mine, i wont spend time telling my kids not to talk to strangers and don't accept things from them, to turn round and say it's all right to do that on halloween. If you want your kids to have sweets so badly buy them yourself, don't go begging at other peoples door then moan because they see no need to supply your children with tooth rot crap.

Ignite

Getting back to the original subject, my latest thing is to say "Dear Boy, you have my sympathies" when they say who they work for. They don't know how to answer that one!

dizziblonde

I won't answer the door from now until January on an evening unless I'm expecting visitors (or have ordered takeaway). I won't give to trick or treaters as I think it's hopelessly inconsistent to spend half the year banging on about stranger danger and then encourage them to knock on strangers' doors asking for sweeties (although the year I lived near school and some of the year 6s were doing a spot of early trick or treating... read 1st of October... and banged on MY door and then had to sheepishly say "hi Miss" was hilarious to watch how quickly they legged it and spent the next month trying to avoid me at school), then you get the Carol Murderers (singing's too generous a description for the mumbling through one line of We Wish You a Merry Christmas that this usually entails).

I resent being expected to supply sweets to kids who are, in essence, harrassing people for them. You want your kids to have sweets - buy them yourself, or arrange with neighbours and friends that you know that they can go knock on their doors, show Auntie Fred their costume and get sweeties there, rather than banging on every door within a mile radius for a carrier bag full of junk that they're then going to throw up all over your carpet. I'm obviously not in - and I won't be answering the door (I'll have the doorbell unplugged). Hell every local youth club and community centre around here (even Tesco) is doing a Halloween thing - it's not as if there isn't enough to do.... trick or treat really needs to die a death.

Energy salesmen are too much fun though - I used to work for an energy company, and, even more amusingly I used to work prepayment (which half of the company admin staff reduced to gibbering wrecks at the sight of a prepayment account)... guy showed up at my old flat where we HAD a prepayment meter (usually if you tell them that they run away in terror anyway) and decided to try it on. Bearing in mind I knew exactly the prepayment tarrifs I was on, because I spent all day sorting out that type of accounts - I let him lie and bull..you-know-what his way through for about 15 minutes before mentioning what I did for a job and watching him squirm his way out of all the lies he was trying. Or hubby's answered the door, it's been the company we're with that he still works for and it's ended up being about half an hour of complaining about their hand-to-hand IT system, and he's actually taken the feedback from them back to the technical bods he works with!

mcjordi

i had talk talk at the door not long back and started asking him about his landline etc as i worked for bt ( i dont but you get the picture) he was majorly !!!!ed off and im sure he called me a t**t lol

bosseyed

elfen wrote: »

Maybe the Jehovahs will come with a big bag of money.

No, all they ever bring me is good news

And I don't like trick or treaters, my son won't be allowed to do it when hes old enough.

vwelsh13

actually glad that my sign was ignored last month, we have had cavity wall insulation for free (not OAP/benefit claimers etc) !

trisontana

This is what the "no Trick or Treat" poster published by our local paper says:-

To Protect the elderly and vulnerable
To protect unsupervised children
To reduce "Trick of Treat" vandalism

And it's produced with the blessing of the local police

snugglepet20

Ok in my defence the kind of trick or treating I am talking about is small children dressed as pumpkins and accompanied by their parents, not gangs of teenagers. On our street 90% of us have children so it is more of a sweet swap at each house rather than begging for sweets from strangers and it is quite a festive occassion with all the decorations etc.

bluejake

Bunting wrote: »

Maybe I should break out the water balloons!:D

My dad used to throw them at people who let the dogs do their business on our front lawn (he threw them at the people not the dogs!). he used to keep some on the windowsill ready to go!

Not good advice. This is likely to end up with a journey to the police station in the back of a police car. Throwing unknown (from the victim's point of view) liquid into someones face is assault and may result in a criminal record or caution. If someone did it to me whether it hit me or not I would certainly ring 999 and get police assistance and I might possibly just think it is acid and my eyes are stinging and my vision is blurred and I am struggling to see to ensure my attacker spends at least a night in the cells. Shock and trauma can have an amazing effect on victims. I don't like people's dogs crapping in my garden either - I put up a fence - but physically attacking people will result in more hassle than dog crap on your garden.:A