so considering today (well yesterday technically, since its past midnight) was Halloween, I was sitting by the doorway passing out candy to kids while finishing reading le morte d'arthur inbwtween spurts..


now, I remember when kids used to dress up and go door to door, smiling and saying "trick or treat".. well yeah, not anymore..


out of the 21 kids that came to my door, only 2 were wearing a costume (one kid was a dinosaur, and another appeared to be Edward Kenway from AC4 (or some Assassins Creed character anyway)), and only 3 actually said "trick or treat"..

the rest literally were going around knocking on peoples doors, dressed in jeans and hoodies and all they said when you opened the door was "candy", and a couple even said "not enough, more!"..


this didn't feel like giving kids treats on Halloween, it felt like some young punks mugging me in a back ally..



did anyone else have similar experiences giving out treats this year?

Lol I'd probably turn them away and say this candy is for kids that actually put forth effort.

but i rather not have to wipe egg off the front of the house in the morning

Huh. We had normal trick or treaters - oldest kids were maybe 12 or 13 and they seemed to favor facepainting over a total costume, but some of them were pretty good - an excellent sugar skull on one young lady for example. But we had dozens of dressed up kiddies.

Yeah, where I live - we had a pretty cold and rainy Halloween (it started out drizzly this morning, and right around trick-or-treat time it started coming down in earnest,) so it was pretty low-key all things considered. My son is 4, so we took him out around the neighborhood and everyone we saw was dressed up. Some of them had raincoats and plastic bags over their costumes, but I didn't see anyone that wasn't dressed up or being polite.

If anything I was a bit disappointed with how few houses had lights on compared to last year, but then again we had the same problem in our block (there's a lot of families with kids on our street, so everyone is out trick-or-treating instead of staying home to pass out candy.)

But I didn't notice any annoying kids or people that weren't dressed up, in our area.

Thats why you hand out candy at some one else's house

I can't believe trick or treating is a social norm in America.

That's what I did, no costume no candy.

And for the kids that are just downright greedy get bitesized pieces while everyone else that's with them gets the bigger candy bars(We give out the regular sized bars in my house)

If they try to do anything we have security cameras.

No kids at all for me this year - there don't seem to be any living in my apartment complex. It's mostly young advlts who don't have them, plus some retirees.

Unlike Australia, America doesn't have actual spirits of the dead rising up to commune with the living. So the night is a bit different for them .

We do?

Hey, that 'gimme more' syndrome started back in the '70s and '80s, along with the no costumes thing. It all seems to depend on your proximity to the nearest ghetto. But, then again, now days folks just drive their kids to affluent neighborhoods and dump them out there for a while, then take them to the next target of opportunity when they've cleaned it out by going around to the houses two or three times. Am I cynical, or what?

We had a fair amount of trick or treaters here before the rain hit, and everybody was in costume.