Woman wants the less fortunate kids to stay out of her 'hood on Halloween

[bradley]

Most basic gated places don't stop pedestrians. Also for certain 'holidays' the residents may vote to have gate restrictions lifted so when they have their halloween parties it doesn't take everyone an hour to get in.

All gated communities (especially those that employ public services) are illegal. And I'll bet this woman lives in a McMansion built by illegal labor. F-her.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

All gated communities (especially those that employ public services) are illegal.

wat

 

[sourn]

Yes, but did your parents drive you to said neighborhoods that weren't exactly within walking distance?

Um yes, considering where I live you wouldn't get crap if you didn't drive for a few miles.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Um yes, considering where I live you wouldn't get crap if you didn't drive for a few miles.

I didn't quote you, slut.

We already know you're 14 years old and still living with your parents getting excited for trick-or-treating.


It would be best for all concerned if you ceased addressing other posters as "slut."

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[shortylickens]

If thats her attitude, maybe she should just not do Halloween.

Or perhaps throw a party instead of giving out candy to strangers who knock on her door.

 

[jagec]

Actually, one of my friends is in a very similar situation: in the "lower-end" block of a reasonably affluent neighborhood, that is close to a not-so-affluent neighborhood. She said that one Halloween she got over 500 kids at her door.

So what does she do? Buy more candy, in the smaller sizes, and make the best of it.

She doesn't whine to some newspaper about how a few poor kids might actually be having fun on Halloween, which is clearly above their station.

 

[alkemyst]

I didn't quote you, slut.

We already know you're 14 years old and still living with your parents getting excited for trick-or-treating.

Dude, you are probably the most miserable person on ATOT.

Halloween is seriously your fight?!?!?

 

[T9D]

Geez of all people you should probably pay it forward to for your great lot in life you'd think it could be for some under privileged kids.

 

[madoka]

Prudence if famous for her fake and/or trolltastic submissions

As I read that letter, I knew it was fake. Who would even write this, let alone to an advice columnist. It's not even asking for advice. It's just made up troll fodder for a hack columnist looking for attention.

 

[BUTCH1]

I used to like giving out candy to the kids and seeing them dressed up as a little bumble bee's but over the last 5 years or so it had got to the point of constant SUV's pulling up on the lawn and a pile of kids clamoring out, the usual $20 worth of candy now didn't last an hour. Last year I went out and looked down my street and 2 adjacent streets, including mine I only saw 3 houses with their front light on, guess that's why I had so many kids coming up. FWIW I live in a lower middle-class area, most houses are between $70-130K, this year I'm shutting it down, I'd need to spend at least $40-50 to give out candy to everyone who came and then you get those who start complaining about what you have and how much your giving each trick or treater. Sorry, I used to walk the streets when I was that age, no parents drove their kids around, maybe 7 years of crappy economy have taken their toll or so many people got sick of hearing car doors closing they just gave up on it.

 

[alkemyst]

As I read that letter, I knew it was fake. Who would even write this, let alone to an advice columnist. It's not even asking for advice. It's just made up troll fodder for a hack columnist looking for attention.

damn you are lighting up my subscribed threads.

 

[alkemyst]

I used to like giving out candy to the kids and seeing them dressed up as a little bumble bee's but over the last 5 years or so it had got to the point of constant SUV's pulling up on the lawn and a pile of kids clamoring out, the usual $20 worth of candy now didn't last an hour. Last year I went out and looked down my street and 2 adjacent streets, including mine I only saw 3 houses with their front light on, guess that's why I had so many kids coming up. FWIW I live in a lower middle-class area, most houses are between $70-130K, this year I'm shutting it down, I'd need to spend at least $40-50 to give out candy to everyone who came and then you get those who start complaining about what you have and how much your giving each trick or treater. Sorry, I used to walk the streets when I was that age, no parents drove their kids around, maybe 7 years of crappy economy have taken their toll or so many people got sick of hearing car doors closing they just gave up on it.

yeah you hate kids. No one really drives an SUV house to house.

It's fun to talk about it online, but just think if all kids are doing that and the logistics.

GG.

 

[John Connor]

I bet I surpass those rich assholes when I hand out full sized candy bars on Halloween. Screw that dumb bitch!

 

[alkemyst]

I bet I surpass those rich assholes when I hand out full sized candy bars on Halloween. Screw that dumb bitch!

That's what they do or bags of candy.

 

[John Connor]

We once pasted out bags too. LMAO!

 

[smackababy]

You know, it is rather humorous that I would hate this type of thing but my parents did this. They would take us to the "rich" neighborhoods to get candy. It was just par for the course for me growing up though. The only time I would attend church was on Easter, simply because my parents couldn't afford anything else.

 

[lozina]

The sun is up the sky is blue it's beautiful and so are you

 

[halik]

Great troll, but I've definitely seen it happen. I used to live on the most expensive block in Chicago and literally some 95% of people trick or treating where from nowhere near the neighborhood. At one point, the older kids started started "wilding out" and took down a street lamp...

 

[Kaido]

She said that one Halloween she got over 500 kids at her door.

500 kids?! Man...I got 4 last year. And 2 of those were teenagers who didn't even dress up

 

[CZroe]

No one trick or treats in the neighborhood I grew up in. I think I've seen about three attempts in decades and, of course, my mother had no candy for them. What does that say about me?

I see that all the parents take their kids to the town square where they go to businesses and the surrounding historic homes (millionaires) or they drop them off at shopping malls. This is much safer than sketchy neighborhoods. Does this woman remember the PSAs in the '80s about taking your candy to the hospital for X-Rays due to sickos who would slip glass into candied apples and such?

 

[Svnla]

I think it should be if the porch light is on = ok to knock for candies, off = no go.

Also, no nagging or keep on knocking the door.

You can get a bag of candies (M+M peanuts of 12 oz) for about $2 or so. Not too expensive.

 

[Sonikku]

Riff raff should keep to their own. That candy is to be allocated for children with greater values.

 

[TheFamilyMan]

yeah you hate kids. No one really drives an SUV house to house.

It's fun to talk about it online, but just think if all kids are doing that and the logistics.

GG.

Here you go again...baiting. Then you fucking bitch and moan to the mods about people ganging up on you. GTFO.

Also, how do you know what goes on in every fucking neighborhood in America? Here's some real-world information for you, MINO...

I live in an upper-upper income area, houses in the $1m to $4m range and we do, indeed, see SUV's full of people on Halloween. They dump the kids off at one house and drive up one or two houses and wait for the kids to hit houses on both sides of the street. On to the next block, rinse and repeat. It is EXACTLY as Butch states in his post...almost to a 't'.

We used to decorate the house and front part extensively and have mini haunted house in the garage. It would take a week to get everything in order. We'd pull all the cars out of the garage and put them in back to use the 4 spaces for the mini-haunted house. When majority of trick-or-treeters were neighborhood kids, it was awesome and lots of people came not only for the candy but also the walkthrough for the 'scaries'. When it became apparent the majority of the trick-or-treeters were being hauled in by the truckload and simply wanted their handfuls of candy, we eventually wound down our decorating. We won't be doling out the candy this year either...yay for Halloween parties.

 

[Mixolydian]

Very few kids go trick-or-treating in my area anymore. We used to get tons, now we get maybe like 10 or 15.

But yeah I don't want ghetto people in my neighborhood. Keep that shit in the city.

 

[BUTCH1]

yeah you hate kids. No one really drives an SUV house to house.

It's fun to talk about it online, but just think if all kids are doing that and the logistics.

GG.

No,I don't hate kids, I've been here since '94 and have always given out candy but please don't fucking tell me what I don't see, 75%+ are kids being driven around by parents for the simple reason that most houses are NOT giving out candy, in effect I was "subsidizing" my cheap lazy-assed neighbors who refused to participate. Even more annoying was kids complaining about what kind of candy or how much they got. Think I'll do what my dad did when the same kids kept coming back, start handing out slices of bologna in a sandwich bag.