Comments on: Is Trick or Treating Dead?

By: CINF

CINF — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:50:43 +0000

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.

By: Max Sparber

Max Sparber — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:39:04 +0000

Ah, Jesus, Tom! I was just speculatin’ on a hypothesis!

By: spaceman

spaceman — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:37:32 +0000

I thought it was because of the 1993 killer blizzard

By: Jason DeRusha

Jason DeRusha — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:33:48 +0000

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")

By: spaceman

spaceman — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:33:38 +0000

i mean to your first comment

By: spaceman

spaceman — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:32:55 +0000

objection, sparber; speculation

By: Max Sparber

Max Sparber — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:31:27 +0000

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.

By: Rat

Rat — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:22:23 +0000

Cue Swandog.

By: jane

jane — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:14:44 +0000

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.

By: Max Sparber

Max Sparber — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:57:18 +0000

I think it’s Gen-Xers now, Nood. They’re helicopter parents like Boomers could never match.