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Yearly Halloween Is Being Stolen From Today's Children
Posted on 10/27/22 at 6:17 pm
Posted on 10/27/22 at 6:17 pm
Halloween has turned into a fragmented, watered down version of what is used to be. Instead of everyone trick or treating on Halloween night, parents take their kids to "safe zones" like churches or parking lots or down commercial streets where they can go collect candy while wearing a costume (I don't call that trick or treating). These events trypically aren't even on Halloween. Some towns schedule a night for trick or treating that's not even on Halloween night. Why!?
We are robbing our children of one of the most special times of being a child. There's nothing like trick or treating on Halloween night. Seeing mobs of kids all walking the dark streets at the same time, having nearly all houses in all neighborhoods with their lights on inviting trick or treaters, and being able to look forward to that night every year without having to ask "what night are we allowed to trick or treat this year?"
Halloween should not be a carefully planned, controlled event where old people force kids to engage in Halloween on the old people's terms. Halloween is Halloween and old people should deal with it and give the kids the Halloween they got when they were kids!
We are robbing our children of one of the most special times of being a child. There's nothing like trick or treating on Halloween night. Seeing mobs of kids all walking the dark streets at the same time, having nearly all houses in all neighborhoods with their lights on inviting trick or treaters, and being able to look forward to that night every year without having to ask "what night are we allowed to trick or treat this year?"
Halloween should not be a carefully planned, controlled event where old people force kids to engage in Halloween on the old people's terms. Halloween is Halloween and old people should deal with it and give the kids the Halloween they got when they were kids!
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Posted on 10/27/22 at 6:18 pm to pioneerbasketball
Posted on 10/27/22 at 6:19 pm to pioneerbasketball
pervs, criminals, and scumbags are too common now to have an old fashioned Halloween
Posted on 10/27/22 at 6:24 pm to pioneerbasketball
Completely agree. Our town doesn’t even do trick or treating anymore. It’s “trunk or treating” and they walk around the damn school parking lot.
It’s insanity and I hate it for my kid.
It’s insanity and I hate it for my kid.
Posted on 10/27/22 at 6:31 pm to pioneerbasketball
Meh. If you don't have druids sacrificing to the gods in order to protect your tribe from the potential starvation and disease of the coming winter, it is completely fragmented and watered down.
The kids deserve to watch at least one of their peers or parents sacrificed in the wicker man.
The kids deserve to watch at least one of their peers or parents sacrificed in the wicker man.
Posted on 10/27/22 at 6:32 pm to chinhoyang
quote:
pervs, criminals, and scumbags are too common now to have an old fashioned Halloween
Did you miss all the sexual abuse / serial killers of boys in the 70’s and 80’s? It wasn’t too common then?
Posted on 10/27/22 at 6:33 pm to pioneerbasketball
Entire cities have been lost. The old urban experience (such as Yats in NO) is disappearing
Losing trick or treat is low on the list of tragedies
Losing trick or treat is low on the list of tragedies
Posted on 10/27/22 at 6:34 pm to pioneerbasketball
In Prairieville, my little bastard roams the streets and comes back around 9-10. All good.
Posted on 10/27/22 at 6:35 pm to pioneerbasketball
Kids still trick or treat in my neck of the woods. We adults make some drinks and post up on the driveway and pass out candy. It’s a good time. I could see in places like NOLA, NYC, and Philly this might be to dangerous. But the people in cities like those insist on electing libs who don’t give a crap about crime, so can’t say I feel sorry for em.
This post was edited on 10/27/22 at 6:38 pm
Posted on 10/27/22 at 6:37 pm to Kafka
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Kafka
You watch too much tv
Posted on 10/27/22 at 6:37 pm to pioneerbasketball
It's why older, established neighborhoods with locked in property values and like-minded young families are absolute gold and were the peak of the housing boom.
Posted on 10/27/22 at 6:40 pm to Paul Allen
quote:ackshually, I don't watch TV at all
You watch too much tv
Posted on 10/27/22 at 6:41 pm to pioneerbasketball
Just moved into a new neighborhood that’s been around since the 30s. Easily 50% of the homes are decked out in Halloween decor.
We have a BREC park in the neighborhood where Halloween kicks off as a block party, then the kids pile into hayrides and come trick or treating.
I can’t wait.
We have a BREC park in the neighborhood where Halloween kicks off as a block party, then the kids pile into hayrides and come trick or treating.
I can’t wait.
This post was edited on 10/27/22 at 6:42 pm
Posted on 10/27/22 at 6:42 pm to jbird7
Trick or treating in NYC is a different animal as it was like shooting fish in a barrel. The kids would start on the 18th floor and work their way down. Average about 5-7 units per floor. I would make them stop when they had a full bag.
Posted on 10/27/22 at 6:45 pm to pioneerbasketball
I hate wading through whores dressed like strippers so my kids can get a Snickers bar with fentanyl in it.
Posted on 10/27/22 at 6:48 pm to pioneerbasketball
As long as the bars are still filled with slutty nurses/slutty witches/slutty cops I'll be fine.
Posted on 10/27/22 at 6:49 pm to pioneerbasketball
Going outside is dangerous. Maybe have Amazon deliver a bag of assorted candy and have your kids show off their costumes to other kids on a Zoom call?
Posted on 10/27/22 at 6:52 pm to pioneerbasketball
quote:
We are robbing our children of one of the most special times of being a child.
"one of the most special times of being a child"
Maybe a better job of parenting
This post was edited on 10/27/22 at 6:53 pm
Posted on 10/27/22 at 6:54 pm to pioneerbasketball
I’m fairly certain you made this exact post a year ago.
Edit - I see the “yearly” now. Should be “annual” as a better word choice.
Anyway, I found last year’s post if anyone wants to copy/paste their previous answers.
Edit - I see the “yearly” now. Should be “annual” as a better word choice.
Anyway, I found last year’s post if anyone wants to copy/paste their previous answers.
This post was edited on 10/27/22 at 7:03 pm
Posted on 10/27/22 at 7:00 pm to pioneerbasketball
I'm a firm believer that DST should end the weekend before Halloween. No kid should have to trick or treat in the daylight.
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