Halloween: What are you giving Trick or Treaters?

AubreyMac

A few years ago my Aunt, Uncle and Cousin were out. When they got back home they found the outside of their house had been egged.


Another cousin worked in a take away, and Halloween kids thought it was their entitlement to get some free food. When they didn't get it, the take away got egged too.

tain

powerful_Rogue wrote: »

No, I meant people like you that expect others to tolerate the little beggers knocking at their door and ringing the bell.

Ah good, my issue is with people like you who don't even read what someone else has written then be rude about it. It's precisely that laziness that also sits there saying they won't do anything to help themselves, and demand that everyone else does something instead. Glad we're in a nice tit for tat rut.

What I said was that no one needs to tolerate anything - put a sign up saying 'f-off I hate you all' if you must. But doing absolutely nothing and expecting everyone else to conform is lazy, and I'm glad people irritate you. I hate laziness.

tain

Pollycat wrote: »

I too don't see a problem with others celebrating and enjoying it as long as they don't want me to be involved.
Unfortunately, it seems that unless I put up a gate at the entrance to my drive and stick a notice in it, I have to expect to be involved as brats will still come knocking on my door.
Wrong on all levels.

Pollycat wrote: »

If I put a sign at the top of my drive, kids would still come and knock at the door.
Trust me. They would.
That's why a sign would not work.

Ok nice for us to spend the whole thread disagreeing, only for you to come to page 8 and finally say what irks you about the whole thing.

So what you're unhappy with are the bad eggs who either ignore the 'no decorations' rule, or in some other way misbehave.

It's a poor evaluation on society to tar everyone with the brush of a few bad eggs. Be open about what and who you are unhappy with, rather than putting blame to the entire festival as though it was invented to irritate you personally.

Anti social behaviour is just that - anti social. Nothing in Halloween is designed to be anti social.

Slinky

tain wrote: »

Nothing in Halloween is designed to be anti social.

Eh? Where does the 'Trick' bit come from then?

Silian

I'm afraid that I had a bad halloween - I made the door open automatically and allowed the children to take their own sweets to add to the 'spooky' effect. Unfortunately I was foolish enough to leave all the sweets out and they were all taken by a bunch of teenagers.

The house also got egged later (I have to assume by the same teenagers).

But... I am still going to do my house up next year. I am not going to let a bunch of anti social teenagers spoil it for the young ones. The young ones really enjoyed getting their sweets from the creepy house and hearing their laughter more than made up for it.

I will be more careful about how many sweets I leave out next year though.

Gloomendoom

tain wrote: »

Anti social behaviour is just that - anti social. Nothing in Halloween is designed to be anti social.

Halloween is designed?

Who by?

tain

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Halloween is designed?

Who by?

By social tradition and widely accepted norms. Implied rather than explicit. People didn't just spontaneously do things based on nothing, which is a form of design.

tain

Slinky wrote: »

Eh? Where does the 'Trick' bit come from then?

Are you saying 'trick please!' when the kids come to the door? Or are they requesting a trick from you?

SuperPikachu

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Halloween is designed?

Who by?

The modern thing we have here is by mass tat pushers I assume

tain

SuperPikachu wrote: »

The modern thing we have here is by mass tat pushers I assume

is an interesting skim though

Who are these mass tat pushers who can secretly influence millions into buying pumpkins from local farmers? Or do you mean the supermarkets selling outfits, which being clothes aren't 'tat'?