My pet peeve(s) on halloween night.
Who is trick or treating for anyway??? To keep things "safe", our town does a halloween walk for the kids of our town. They close off a main street for all the pedestrians and they give people along the route bags of candy to give out.
Who comes out?
Children, of course - alone or with parents, teenagers dressed in gorey costumes, and parents with babies or children under 2 who can't walk or even say trick or treat. Who's doing the asking and holding out the bags for them? The parents! Who is the candy for?? I don't think it's the babies who will be eating it!
And to top it off, according to a local police officer, people from a bunch of other towns are here too and there is not enough candy for the local children.
Bah humbug. I don't do halloween, but was out at my neighbors on the main street for awhile and observed the happenings. My feeling is there ought to be an age limit and it should be kept local and let the other local towns put on their own "walk".
2 comments:
is there a reason why trick or treating isn't done by going house to house?
i agree. there should be an age limit. obviously, a baby isn't eating the candy.
I'm not sure why it's not house to house anymore. I guess the town officials felt that a halloween walk would be a good idea. that way, the kids could go to homes on that particular street, people could donate $ or candy to be distributed to those homes that wanted to participate, and the town would also purchase candy. It's kind of like a big parade and family event, which is nice - I just don't like halloween!!
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