Embarrassing trick or treat experience.

sashadesade

miss_independent wrote: »

Thanks all, I know that in actual fact it IS quite funny but it was also quite embarrassing for me. She just seemed really gormless, like she didn't get that I wasn't wearing a costume, she also didn't understand that it was one parcel per child and her kids tried to take the whole tray lol and then she said, "did you actually MAKE these? Really?". I'm not being funny but it was blinking obvious I had made them, they had a little handwritten poem on them!

Thanks for the positive feedback about the parcels! I used to work with kids and also remember getting all dressed up with my friends when I was really small and going trick or treating and not one person answering the door, so I try to make it special for the kids in my neighbourhood. I spent time in the US as a kid and the halloweens there are amazing so I try to recreate a little piece of that here. It was worth a little effort to see the faces of the really little ones. It's amazing what some sweets, fake eyeballs and old gift wrap can do!

Oh dear, sounds like her poor kids are going to grow up to be as pleasant as her.
Your parcels sound really awesome by the way, I'd love to get something like that and I'm in my late twenties! :rotfl:

miss_independent

Aww, aren't you all lovely! My best friend is helping me to see the funny side. Tbh think it's just that I have PMS and am knackered, that it got to me. I wasn't going to wear this top again even though I love it and it's really in at the moment but why let a silly woman like her stop me from wearing something I liked until a couple of hours ago?

sashadesade

miss_independent wrote: »

Aww, aren't you all lovely! My best friend is helping me to see the funny side. Tbh think it's just that I have PMS and am knackered, that it got to me. I wasn't going to wear this top again even though I love it and it's really in at the moment but why let a silly woman like her stop me from wearing something I liked until a couple of hours ago?

Um, no, stuff her! Don't let her dictate what you wear! She probably would have had a dig whatever you were wearing - it's not you that's the problem after all.

miss_independent

sashadesade wrote: »

Oh dear, sounds like her poor kids are going to grow up to be as pleasant as her.
Your parcels sound really awesome by the way, I'd love to get something like that and I'm in my late twenties! :rotfl:

I'm mid/late twenties too lol, I'll give you my address for next year, just stoop down and speak in a high pitched voice and you can have one. Or maybe I should make something for the mums too? The coolest thing I had was pieces of Terry's chocolate orange but they were filled with popping candy - I can highly recommend them!

deb68_2

sending you big ((((((((((((((((HUGS)))))))))))))))))0
what an awful person, hold your head up and try let her nasty remarks
go over your head

xxx

Quasar

I don't usually post on this board, but the thread title caught my attention.

miss_independent, I echo the other posters in encouraging you not to let this experience upset you unduly. This woman's comment have said a lot about her and nothing about you. From where I sit she sounds rather silly and vacuous, as well as out of order. I mean, one must a pretty daft life to feel the need to put someone down like this. I feel sorry for her kids.

Next year just dress the way YOU want to dress. When they call, if she's there, just smile at her and ignore, chatting instead with the other mothers. I bet that being ignored will bring out the worst in her in front of the others. Brilliant.

EDIT - she sounds massively insecure.

Stephb1986_2

I would of just shook my head and said you've not changed much once a b!tch always a b!tch and shut the door in her face.

Steph xx

pickledonionspaceraider

Oh op that woman sounds awful, poor you

mumto2loves

yikes what a stupid stupid biatch. thats horrible nothing remotely funny at all.

I've been trick or treating tonight and our crowd of children really did appreciate the houses that had 'made an effort' and on the way home were talking about which person was the best. I'm sure there were kids tonight saying you were the best on their round by the sound of you bags.

If one of the mums i was with tonight had done that I would have been horrified whatever the history, and that person would have found themselves WITHOUT an invite next year!!!

(((hugs)))

make_me_wise

miss_independent wrote: »

You get the picture, she was not very nice and I was a mug. So I open the door, we make small talk and she says " you look so good in your witches costume by the way. It's so different. Where did you get it?"

This is probably the point I should mention I'm not wearing a costume. the other mums looked embarrassed.

"it's not a witches costume," I say.

"Oh, sorry, I mean your vampire costume. Or, wait! No, sorry, your bat costume! I didn't realise at first that you were a bat."

By this point, I wanted to disappear under the floor. One of the other mums started to tug her and try to whisper to her but she just stood there looking at me head to toe, looking puzzled.

I told her, "this isn't a costume, this is just what I'm wearing today." She didn't even apologise or look embarrassed. The other mums were looking on horrified at her and started to move on, thanking me profusely for the parcels.

I feel a bit put out. I am wearing a cream and navy lace tunic top, leggings and cream shoes - I don't see how I could be mistaken for a witch but it seemed genuine on her behalf. I feel really paranoid now, like I look like a Halloween character on a daily basis or something!

OP look at what I have highlighted above hun. All that vile, sad bully achieved was to embarass herself. The other mums have seen that woman for what she is. I should think by morning she will have a few less friends. Any normal person would not want to associate with someone so rude and foul mouthed. They were looking horrifed at her and thanking you. She quite clearly has mental health problems to behave in such a way, no person in their right mind would carry on so. Pity her ignorance and lack of social graces. Hold your head high and know that you have made alot of little kids very happy with their lovely halloween treats. Rise above it all and just be you hun.