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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Oct 31, 2022 8:24:17 GMT -5
Halloween was my favorite holiday as a young person. I remember when we used to load up & go to neighborhood after neighborhood. It was cool seeing all the costumes. As a teen, we would usually play D&D and have a monster movie marathon on the TV. Now everybody seems to Trunk or Treat. I get it. There ARE some weirdos out there.
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Post by hengest on Oct 31, 2022 9:34:45 GMT -5
Halloween was my favorite holiday as a young person. I remember when we used to load up & go to neighborhood after neighborhood. It was cool seeing all the costumes. As a teen, we would usually play D&D and have a monster movie marathon on the TV. Now everybody seems to Trunk or Treat. I get it. There ARE some weirdos out there. It did have a special feeling back then, and it was cool seeing all the costumes. It is certainly true that there are weirdos out there. To me, the reduction of the fun of Halloween seems excessive. The whole purpose is a kind of controlled mayhem that your parents at least seem not to be fully in charge of. |
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Post by hengest on Oct 31, 2022 9:35:19 GMT -5
By the way, I had never heard of Trunk or Treat before. I looked it up, and I'm still not sure exactly what it means. What is it where you are?
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Oct 31, 2022 9:43:05 GMT -5
By the way, I had never heard of Trunk or Treat before. I looked it up, and I'm still not sure exactly what it means. What is it where you are? People handing out candy meet at a church or similar location with a large parking lot. They open their trunks and often decorate it as well as dressing up. The kids go through the cars one by one. It's a safe way to do it without kids roaming the streets with limited visibility. |
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Post by hengest on Oct 31, 2022 9:48:47 GMT -5
By the way, I had never heard of Trunk or Treat before. I looked it up, and I'm still not sure exactly what it means. What is it where you are? People handing out candy meet at a church or similar location with a large parking lot. They open their trunks and often decorate it as well as dressing up. The kids go through the cars one by one. It's a safe way to do it without kids roaming the streets with limited visibility. Ahhh...I see. I see what you mean, then. I wasn't really aware of that. Limited visibility is a reasonable concern. I just don't remember thinking about it as a kid. I do remember my parents "checking" my candy on my return home. Now, while that's a reasonable precaution, if I'm not mistaken, all the tales of razor blades hidden in candy were fabrications, and what's more important...my parents had no candy-inspecting knowledge. Okay, if an axe had been embedded in a Milky Way, they would have noticed, but there were also claims that lunatics were injecting poisons into things...come on. How could anyone possibly detect that? Especially a parent checking 150 pieces of candy in a few minutes? I guess what I mean is that if my parents' precautions were useless and founded on nothing, I have to assume my precautions are the same...don't I?  |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Oct 31, 2022 10:34:05 GMT -5
People handing out candy meet at a church or similar location with a large parking lot. They open their trunks and often decorate it as well as dressing up. The kids go through the cars one by one. It's a safe way to do it without kids roaming the streets with limited visibility. Ahhh...I see. I see what you mean, then. I wasn't really aware of that. Limited visibility is a reasonable concern. I just don't remember thinking about it as a kid. I do remember my parents "checking" my candy on my return home. Now, while that's a reasonable precaution, if I'm not mistaken, all the tales of razor blades hidden in candy were fabrications, and what's more important...my parents had no candy-inspecting knowledge. Okay, if an axe had been embedded in a Milky Way, they would have noticed, but there were also claims that lunatics were injecting poisons into things...come on. How could anyone possibly detect that? Especially a parent checking 150 pieces of candy in a few minutes? I guess what I mean is that if my parents' precautions were useless and founded on nothing, I have to assume my precautions are the same...don't I? B I N G O |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Oct 31, 2022 13:48:52 GMT -5
We lived out in the country side on a farm, I remember one year when we were maybe 8 dad drove us into town so we went trick or treating, but it was never any big thing with our family.
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Post by mao on Oct 31, 2022 15:20:16 GMT -5
I think the big fear is Fentanol these days. I was never that into Halloween. I did make a Haunted House for my church when I was about 16 single handedly. When I had kids we took the kids out in homemade costumes. Xena, Barney, Preditor. MIB,First rule NO PROPS. We had fun times, I would wear a name tag that said Bruce Wayne or carry an empty beer bottle and say I was Ted Kennedy, Good Times.
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Post by simrion on Nov 1, 2022 4:49:24 GMT -5
I cannot help but think our society has become rather insular due to the overwhelming impact of social media. This is simply anecdotal however. We used to really get into Halloween and would go through hundreds of pieces of candy in an evening with the vast number of trick-or-treaters. Now we rarely get more than 40 - 50 visitors in our suburban neighborhood. Makes me sad...
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Post by hengest on Nov 1, 2022 8:26:55 GMT -5
I cannot help but think our society has become rather insular due to the overwhelming impact of social media. This is simply anecdotal however. We used to really get into Halloween and would go through hundreds of pieces of candy in an evening with the vast number of trick-or-treaters. Now we rarely get more than 40 - 50 visitors in our suburban neighborhood. Makes me sad... It seems this way to me, too, simrion, although of course I can't prove the impact of any given cause. It does seem to me that around 2010-11, when Facebook really went nuts and was (I have heard, and can believe) at the peak of its social power, that there was a serious shift in our social functioning. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Nov 1, 2022 12:29:19 GMT -5
I cannot help but think our society has become rather insular due to the overwhelming impact of social media. This is simply anecdotal however. We used to really get into Halloween and would go through hundreds of pieces of candy in an evening with the vast number of trick-or-treaters. Now we rarely get more than 40 - 50 visitors in our suburban neighborhood. Makes me sad... It seems this way to me, too, simrion, although of course I can't prove the impact of any given cause. It does seem to me that around 2010-11, when Facebook really went nuts and was (I have heard, and can believe) at the peak of its social power, that there was a serious shift in our social functioning. When my wife was alive, we gave out candy every year and it ranged from 40-70 depending on the year. Our immediate neighborhood is older and not many kids, unless people from adjoining streets come down ours. |
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Post by True Black Raven on Nov 1, 2022 16:36:17 GMT -5
We get kids lined up for candy. I think we are one of the few houses in our neighborhood that do not have school age children.
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Post by simrion on Nov 1, 2022 18:14:32 GMT -5
Not sure if it's the impact of the pandemic panic but I know many local communities hosted trunk-n-treat gathering this year just prior to the holiday. It seems many in my suburb didn't participate at all, either going out or staying home with the lights out. On a brighter note, my Christmas obsessed neighbor (Clark Griswold) was already out this morning putting up Christmas decorations. Even dressed one of his Halloween Skeletons in a Santa Suit!
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Nov 1, 2022 18:22:05 GMT -5
Not sure if it's the impact of the pandemic panic but I know many local communities hosted trunk-n-treat gathering this year just prior to the holiday. It seems many in my suburb didn't participate at all, either going out or staying home with the lights out. On a brighter note, my Christmas obsessed neighbor (Clark Griswold) was already out this morning putting up Christmas decorations. Even dressed one of his Halloween Skeletons in a Santa Suit! I would bet that a lot of people are doing trunk-n-treat, just in general as a safer way to do the whole thing and also the adults get to talk and socialize more this way, would be my guess. |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Nov 1, 2022 18:25:20 GMT -5
Not sure if it's the impact of the pandemic panic but I know many local communities hosted trunk-n-treat gathering this year just prior to the holiday. It seems many in my suburb didn't participate at all, either going out or staying home with the lights out. On a brighter note, my Christmas obsessed neighbor (Clark Griswold) was already out this morning putting up Christmas decorations. Even dressed one of his Halloween Skeletons in a Santa Suit! |
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