DeRusha asks the question, and A Day in the Life offers a surly response: At least have the decency to say “Trick or Treat” when you hold out your pillowcase, shopping bag or plastic pumpkin. Don’t be some ungrateful little prick who feels entitled to candy just because you had to walk all the way from your mom’s minivan to my front door. And say “Thanks” after I drop the piece of candy into your little bag. Where the hell are your manners?
What are your thoughts on trick-or-treating in Minnesota?
20 Reader Comments
10:04 am
I love Halloween. Last year we got nearly 200 trick-or-treaters (I’m in Eden Prairie), and not one of them failed to say “trick or treat” and then “thank you.” I don’t even mind the teens that show up, as long as they’re polite (which they were) and dressed in some kind of costume. Actually, last year I had a group of teens who said trick or treat, and I said “trick,” and they immediately launched into a song-and-dance routine. Yes, they got extra candy.
10:32 am
Since getting our dog, who got so freaked out by trick-o-treaters his first Halloween with us he howled, danced and peed at the same time, we now have the rather lovely tradition of having one of us spend the evening in the basement with the hound (along with a nice bottle of wine and a book) while the other hands out treats.
Only about a dozen kids came by last year. The kids in our hood are a little too old for Trick-or-treat.
10:33 am
Except for some of the “older” kids (i.e. over 12 yo), I seem to remember all the little tikes saying “twick or tweat” at my door last year.
I’m not sure if, as kids, we said it at every single house we visited. By about an hour into the candy hunt, it just got to be a pain.
10:53 am
This is the time of year where we buy candy to hand out “just in case” some kid shows up, but they never do. But I wouldn’t trick or treat in our neighborhood either, it is too high density. Last year I bought cupcakes for the two kids who live in our association. I brought the cupcakes to them.
This year we won’t even be home. We are going to a play in DT St. Paul. Othello for Halloween? Sound great to me.
11:17 am
Most of the kids in my neghborhood are nice. They always say thank you.
11:32 am
Aw, come on KC. Who wouldn’t wanto trick or treat at the Vice Lords’ house in hope of getting a piece of rock candy?
11:41 am
it’s ironic that the scariest night of the year has been relagated to malls/planned events because parents are too fearful of molesters/razor blades/serial killers . . . but actually we have tons of (friendly)kids in our S. Minneapolis neighborhood. The numbers have been increasing every year for the last 7 it seems.
To those that can’t get into spending the money to hand out candy to those greedy kids, well, there’s always the “trick” side of things . . .
11:55 am
Even if every single person in my immediate neighborhood was a law abiding citizen, it still isn’t a good place to trick or treat. But yeah, having three or four active gangs in a two block radius doesn’t lead to good trick or treating.
12:04 pm
I live on a dead end and am across from RR tracks, so it is completely inefficient for kids to trick or treat there.
12:05 pm
it’s ironic that the scariest night of the year has been relagated to malls/planned events because parents are too fearful of molesters/razor blades/serial killers
I read something somewhere over the weekend that there has yet to be one documented case of contaminated candy in this area … ever.
I’ll see if I can’t track the article down.
Why are Boomers such scaredy cats when it comes to child-raising?
12:57 pm
I think it’s Gen-Xers now, Nood. They’re helicopter parents like Boomers could never match.
1:14 pm
Yeah, Boomers’ kids are now grown up and have their own kids.
Perhaps the best parents were the parents of Boomers. To hear the stories, they let kids run freely throughout the wider neighborhood with few safety devices or healthy foods.
1:22 pm
Cue Swandog.
1:31 pm
I pretty much ran wild when I was a boy, and my parents only worried if I didn’t come home after a certain hour, or if I had blood all over my shirt, as I often did.
1:32 pm
objection, sparber; speculation
1:33 pm
i mean to your first comment
1:33 pm
They’re less paranoid here than they are in Wisconsin, where trick-or-treating is always on a weekend, during set daylight hours. Why? Because of a 1973 murder (the “Halloween killer”)
1:37 pm
I thought it was because of the 1993 killer blizzard
1:39 pm
Ah, Jesus, Tom! I was just speculatin’ on a hypothesis!
3:50 pm
We housesat for friends last year and got to hand out candy. Most kids said trick or treat, and most said thank you. I gave extra candy (they had bought somuchfreakingcandy!) for kids who seemed polite. Kids who just stood there and waited only got one piece. I’m a hardass.
This year, we’re going to the Strip Club instead of handing out candy or going to a bar.