Posted on 10/31/2016 8:08:29 AM PDT by Borges
I don’t participate in it any more. It’s seriously satanic now.
Every Halloween we gather around the fire pit in front of our neighbor’s house for a pot luck block party. It’s always a great time!
We sure trick or treat here
But take a wild guess who interferes mostly and controls and arranges and inserts
Just like sports pre high school
Just like the lunch room
And so on
Wanna blame someone
Blame genX and millennial mommies
They just can’t let kids be kids
Especially boys
I’m a boomer with a huge span of child rearing from 1988 till today and will be for yet another 12 years
40 plus years of child rearing from peak of boomer parenting era till now
Young mom are incessant and persistent in their children’s lives and few young husbands have the nutz to stand up to them or worse they are complicit
My darling wife is an Xer and she helicopters pretty well herself
“I don’t want to see you in the house until dinner time.”
That brings back memories. During the summer, we just flat out weren’t allowed in the house, except to come in and eat lunch. To my parents, it seemed absurd that a kid would be inside during the summer. Today, it seems absurd for a kid to be sitting outside, with nothing to do but kill time.
My Dad always had to sample several pieces of candy “for my protection.” He must have thought that Reeses Cups, Snickers, and Hershey bars presented the greatest threat.
Same here, though I had an older brother and neighbor kids. We would go for hours, and walk miles. Got a couple packets of fish tank gravel from curmudgeons, soaped a few windows, all that. Never got broken pieces of razor blades in an apple.
“I’m thinking of just slamming the door in their faces if they show up tonight.”
It’s a sad commentary on the state of our culture that we’re even having this conversation.
It’s my guess that ‘sullen teenagers’ are the reason so many porch lights are now dark on Halloween. Thank you liberals for degrading the culture so completely.
There was also a persistent urban myth in those days that some neighborhood whack job was putting razor blades in candy bars or apples. My mother was always worried sick about that. Never heard of it actually happening. Just one of those childhood scares.
We were out until 9 on Halloween. Elementary school age. Lots of fun. Kids running all over the neighborhood. Parents at home handing out candy.
Now, out in the boonies, we’ve never had trick or treaters. We took the kids to the town’s indoor Halloween carnival and then get candy at the nursing home. Not nearly as much fun as when we were kids.
“I had an older brother and neighbor kids. We would go for hours, and walk miles.”
Yes, I went in a group, too. I should have said, “without parental supervision’.
Wonderful times.
Hey, you little buggers. I’m giving out 100% Zagnut bars this year.
HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!
How do you like me now?
Where I formally lived, we almost never got tricksters. It was on a major road with heavy traffic and I always thought parents were afraid their kids would get hit crossing the street. When I’ve been in Manhattan on Halloween, we would sign a sheet in the lobby inviting kids to stop by for candy.
Oh, the razor blade craze! Yes, I was part of that generation.
Gordon Ramsey has an amusing video in which he trashes apples and pennies as gifts on Halloween.
Kids dress up as Red Coats carrying signs that the City Council hates children. Pass out flyers and name the traitors who are likely Islamic or Academic.
“Back in the 50s on Long Island, in suburban New York City, NO ONE had Halloween decorations of any kind except maybe some carved pumpkins.”
I can remember when decorating for Halloween consisted of putting a colored bulb in the porch light, and lighting candles in the Jack-o-lanterns outside.
Now, my wife has me wiring up all kinds of stuff in the yard and setting up a sound system to play creepy music. Oh, and don’t forget the fog machine.
Sheesh...
I stop handing out treats when the teenagers show up, though I do still hand it out for younger kids.
This means ending handouts about 8 when the little ones are in but the older ones are driving into the neighborhood.
My house has seen 4 generations of us and we used to have neighborhood parties in our back yard. Not anymore. Too many nutty liberal Californians moved in and wanted to change everything. All the old families have sold out because of the high taxes and half the houses are now vacations rentals. There are far too many strangers coming and going these days.
Even the people you’d think would be decent aren’t. We had a major computer company VP who would snoop around and make himself and kid at home on anyone’s deck. The kid was a terror. It was that behavior, from a wealthy executive, that caused us to start locking our doors.
Halloween for us kids was in those halcyon days of the Sixties. It was great fun and we approached the Eve with great anticipation that built up all October long.
Back then the neighbors would greet you in costume and many would invite you into their homes for all kinds of home baked goodies.. The mini candy bar had yet to dominate but Brachs candies were in abundance along with many other treats.
We will not see the like again.
Bartering is illegal. The Federal Swap Teams should be hunting those candy swapping children down. /s
Swap an engine tune up for landscaping the minder nanny turds will arrest you.
back before we let all the dang ferners in ...
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