Are you a meenie come halloween !

I not only do not give out treats, I put a scissor gate across the porch steps. If I don't treat, I can't be blamed if some kid gets hurt or sick on them. Two years ago, a woman with 4 kids in tow managed to get past the gate and insessantly rang the doorbell. When I answered we got into almost fisticuffs. She was so demanding I wouldn't have given anything if I had it. She said it was Halloween and people have to give out treats. Did I miss something? When was that law passed? I had to threaten to call the police before she would leave. Good example for the kids, huh? On top of that, you don't even know if the kids are local. I heard that sometimes parents load up a car and drive all over with the kids which I think is greedy to the max - stay in your own neighbirhood! Probably most of the candy will eventually get tossed anyway. I feel like handing out religious tracts. When the word about that gets around people will stop coming to my house.
 

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I haven't had any trick-or-treaters come by in years. I think most people in my area take their kiddos to come kind of community do instead. There are not a lot of little kids in my immediate neighborhood, anyway.
 

We live in a small townhouse complex with very few kids. Haven't had trick or treaters in years. I always enjoyed handing out the candy and having enough so I get the left overs.
 
StarSong said:
$5 bills, Chic? Where the heck do you live, Bel Air?
The kids probably think they're counterfeit if they're throwing them away.
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No, not Bel Air. Just a nice neighborhood, and yes, people do give kids $5.00 bills, not that the trick or treaters appreciate it, obviously. That kind of ingratitude makes me feel like what's the point in this whole thing?
 
My daughter and I used to decorate the entrance to our house .. cobwebs, etc. and carve a pumpkin. Our lab, who normally went nuts whenever anyone rang the doorbell, was exceptionally docile when the kids came around. He would sniff their
costumes and let them pet his head.

Now, being in a condo, there are no trick-or-treaters, but they give out treats in the party room for the kids in the building. No door-to-door trick or treating. We can
donate treats for the party if we wish.
 
It seems to me more and more parents are getting together and having a private or neighborhood party for their children. Some civic groups also do this. Door-to-door trick-or-treating is getting to be a dying custom anyway with all the dangers that modern society presents.
 
chic said:
No, not Bel Air. Just a nice neighborhood, and yes, people do give kids $5.00 bills, not that the trick or treaters appreciate it, obviously. That kind of ingratitude makes me feel like what's the point in this whole thing?
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Holy cow! Five bucks, per kid? Where the heck do you live, exactly? I know whose house I'm going to go to, changing my look, and height, each time. Twenty visits, and I'm taking the gf for a nice meal. Then again, I have a feeling that a hundred bucks might get us a salad, to share, at best, in the restaurants in your upper crust neighborhood!

Isn't it tough repeatedly answering your door, in Louboutins?
 
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