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Apologies if I sound like a killjoy, but here it goes.
Then I'm one too ;-) I loathe trick or treating. For the rest of the year, children are discouraged from talking to and accepting sweets from strangers. How come it all changes around Halloween? Yup - I agree. Thankfully trick or treat is a custom that hasn't caught on too much on this side of the pond. We've our own hallowe'en traditions over here - now largely lost - bobbing for apples... apples on a string... The bit I honestly find strange is how much hallowe'en is celebrated in the USA, given it's very much a pagan festival & the States seems to be getting more & more right-wing Christian, I see a strange contradiction there :-) Over here we get churches which are more right-wing, evangelical churches going public about *not* celebrating hallowe'en. Mind you they do try & hijack it as "All Hallows" claiming it has nothing to do with anything pagan, never existed in pagan ritual but is an entirely Christian festival. Cheers, helen s --This is an invalid email address to avoid spam-- to get correct one remove fame & fortune **$om $ --Due to financial crisis the light at the end of the tunnel is switched off-- |
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Apologies if I sound like a killjoy, but here it goes.
Then I'm one too ;-) I loathe trick or treating. For the rest of the year, children are discouraged from talking to and accepting sweets from strangers. How come it all changes around Halloween? Yup - I agree. Thankfully trick or treat is a custom that hasn't caught on too much on this side of the pond. We've our own hallowe'en traditions over here - now largely lost - bobbing for apples... apples on a string... The bit I honestly find strange is how much hallowe'en is celebrated in the USA, given it's very much a pagan festival & the States seems to be getting more & more right-wing Christian, I see a strange contradiction there :-) Over here we get churches which are more right-wing, evangelical churches going public about *not* celebrating hallowe'en. Mind you they do try & hijack it as "All Hallows" claiming it has nothing to do with anything pagan, never existed in pagan ritual but is an entirely Christian festival. Cheers, helen s --This is an invalid email address to avoid spam-- to get correct one remove fame & fortune **$om $ --Due to financial crisis the light at the end of the tunnel is switched off-- |
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Cathi wrote:
Apologies if I sound like a killjoy, but here it goes. I loathe trick or treating. For the rest of the year, children are discouraged from talking to and accepting sweets from strangers. How come it all changes around Halloween? Earlier tonight I saw the most interesting thing. A local parish built themselves a new church which just opened this spring, and for Halloween they had what they were calling a "trunk or treat". A lot of the church members, 50 or so loaded up their trucks with candy and Halloween decor and actually decorated their cars in a huge circle around the parking lot. One even had the prettiest black oriental shorthair and she was just convinced that she was the most gorgeous thing out and about that evening. So the kids went from car to car, getting candy and their pictures taken by everybody, look like lots of fun, and no one on the roads and most likely very few strangers. Mike The early bird gets the worm; but the 2nd mouse gets the cheese!! http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/skippymjp/my_photos |
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Cathi wrote:
Apologies if I sound like a killjoy, but here it goes. I loathe trick or treating. For the rest of the year, children are discouraged from talking to and accepting sweets from strangers. How come it all changes around Halloween? Earlier tonight I saw the most interesting thing. A local parish built themselves a new church which just opened this spring, and for Halloween they had what they were calling a "trunk or treat". A lot of the church members, 50 or so loaded up their trucks with candy and Halloween decor and actually decorated their cars in a huge circle around the parking lot. One even had the prettiest black oriental shorthair and she was just convinced that she was the most gorgeous thing out and about that evening. So the kids went from car to car, getting candy and their pictures taken by everybody, look like lots of fun, and no one on the roads and most likely very few strangers. Mike The early bird gets the worm; but the 2nd mouse gets the cheese!! http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/skippymjp/my_photos |
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Cathi wrote:
Apologies if I sound like a killjoy, but here it goes. I loathe trick or treating. For the rest of the year, children are discouraged from talking to and accepting sweets from strangers. How come it all changes around Halloween? Earlier tonight I saw the most interesting thing. A local parish built themselves a new church which just opened this spring, and for Halloween they had what they were calling a "trunk or treat". A lot of the church members, 50 or so loaded up their trucks with candy and Halloween decor and actually decorated their cars in a huge circle around the parking lot. One even had the prettiest black oriental shorthair and she was just convinced that she was the most gorgeous thing out and about that evening. So the kids went from car to car, getting candy and their pictures taken by everybody, look like lots of fun, and no one on the roads and most likely very few strangers. Mike The early bird gets the worm; but the 2nd mouse gets the cheese!! http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/skippymjp/my_photos |
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Yowie wrote:
(snip) Thus we were quite unprepared for the knock on the door with 5 young kids (all under 10) with no adult supervisor at 8:45pm last night, doing the "trick or treat" thing. All I could say is "We don't do Halloween, sorry" and shut the door. Having been in that position last year, and also having good memories of going trick-or-treating when I was tiny in the US (I still have my plastic pumpkin bucket) I got a bag of 'fun-size' chocolate bars in readiness for Hallowe'en this year. I sadly have to report that we got not one single knock on the door, and so must eat the chocloate ourselves. Why *do* they call those titchy small versions of full-size sweets 'fun', anyway? Deb. -- http://www.scientific-art.com "He looked a fierce and quarrelsome cat, but claw he never would; He only bit the ones he loved, because they tasted good." S. Greenfield |
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Yowie wrote:
(snip) Thus we were quite unprepared for the knock on the door with 5 young kids (all under 10) with no adult supervisor at 8:45pm last night, doing the "trick or treat" thing. All I could say is "We don't do Halloween, sorry" and shut the door. Having been in that position last year, and also having good memories of going trick-or-treating when I was tiny in the US (I still have my plastic pumpkin bucket) I got a bag of 'fun-size' chocolate bars in readiness for Hallowe'en this year. I sadly have to report that we got not one single knock on the door, and so must eat the chocloate ourselves. Why *do* they call those titchy small versions of full-size sweets 'fun', anyway? Deb. -- http://www.scientific-art.com "He looked a fierce and quarrelsome cat, but claw he never would; He only bit the ones he loved, because they tasted good." S. Greenfield |
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Yowie wrote:
(snip) Thus we were quite unprepared for the knock on the door with 5 young kids (all under 10) with no adult supervisor at 8:45pm last night, doing the "trick or treat" thing. All I could say is "We don't do Halloween, sorry" and shut the door. Having been in that position last year, and also having good memories of going trick-or-treating when I was tiny in the US (I still have my plastic pumpkin bucket) I got a bag of 'fun-size' chocolate bars in readiness for Hallowe'en this year. I sadly have to report that we got not one single knock on the door, and so must eat the chocloate ourselves. Why *do* they call those titchy small versions of full-size sweets 'fun', anyway? Deb. -- http://www.scientific-art.com "He looked a fierce and quarrelsome cat, but claw he never would; He only bit the ones he loved, because they tasted good." S. Greenfield |
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We got about half a dozen groups of kids last night. The first was the
worse, two girls, one a bit too old to be doing it (at least she was in costume) and both rude! They kept grabbing candy and didn't even say "trick or treat". Tom was appalled at their rudeness. The rest of the kids were lovely, particularly a little tyke in Spider Man jammies who said something like "tweak or tweet"... he was adorable and he *loved* my carved pumpkin! We also enjoyed a group of what seemed to be underprivileged kids being led by a group of college students. They got extra candy! Victor, who is up for an obscenely early 7am meeting. -- Victor Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam he Email me he |
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We got about half a dozen groups of kids last night. The first was the
worse, two girls, one a bit too old to be doing it (at least she was in costume) and both rude! They kept grabbing candy and didn't even say "trick or treat". Tom was appalled at their rudeness. The rest of the kids were lovely, particularly a little tyke in Spider Man jammies who said something like "tweak or tweet"... he was adorable and he *loved* my carved pumpkin! We also enjoyed a group of what seemed to be underprivileged kids being led by a group of college students. They got extra candy! Victor, who is up for an obscenely early 7am meeting. -- Victor Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam he Email me he |
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