And where I grew up, the night before Halloween was “Devil’s Night,” when everyone went out and burned their neighborhood to the ground.
I still want to know why Eve thinks people in KC have Halloween on the 29th.
I remember a few years back, Independence Day fell on a Sunday. The city of San Angelo TX decided to hold 4th of July celebrations on Saturday. Kind of stupid I think, but made the natives happy.
I’m gonna pretend to be cool for the kids this year and have candy for Saturday and Sunday trick-or-treaters. The kids don’t give a shit - its their parents that are raising the fuss.
I thought that was Detroit?
Strange, I wasn’t aware of this…
Now, that’s twisted. Same goes for what Siege said about the Steeler fans. Stop the world! There’s a game on! :rolleyes:
Please warn people when you are linking to a media file instead of a website.
Of course, if you don’t care, then you don’t care. But I really can’t open media files at my workplace.
Thanks.
Would explain the decor.
Yes, I lived there ten years.
One could validly not want ones child trick-or-treating on ones Sabbath because it’s a holy day of rest, if one also refrains from other legit activities.
One could validly not want ones child TrT’n’ on Sunday night because it’s a school night (our town has had TrT night on Fri or Sat night for years).
But for it to be OK any day except Sunday because it’s Devil-related- that’s just silly.
That is what always bothered me immensely too. The “holier than thou crowd” picks and chooses what they feel like following or ignoring, and then they have the nerve to demand that everyone else obey them, as if they are the sole conveyors of absolute truth. They need to just do their own “thing” and shut the hell up.
See, this reasoning is weird to me, too. How long does it take to trick-or-treat? My brother and I were always home by 7:30 and cleaned up and in bed no more than half an hour past our bedtime. We were allowed to eat only a few pieces of candy that night and had to save the rest for later.
Part of the fun was going out on a school night, just like part of the fun was going out after dark.
Oops. That was me above, not Left Hand.
I remember that blizzard (at least, I’m assuming it’s the same one). I was 15, and I thought I was too old to go trick-or-treating, but my sister convinced me to come along with her and her friend…"It’s starting to snow, and you know that moms aren’t going to take their little kids out in this weather. Just think of the candy we’ll get! I dug around in the closet and threw on a red cape and devil horns over my winter clothing, grabbed a plastic bag, and we went to town. We had an absolute blast, and my sister was right about the haul. People were just emptying their bowls into our sacks, saying, “Take it, I don’t think anyone else is coming, and I don’t want this stuff around the house!”
If our city had “cancelled” Halloween, how would we have known? Do they blow sirens or something? At the time, we thought it was just a regular, if a bit early, snowstorm, and had no idea that school would be cancelled the next day. I mean, this is Minnesota we’re talking about.
I wonder if someone who was a little kid then might remember that “the city” cancelled Halloween, when, really, Mom was the one who kept the kids home.
Every year, my mother-in-law asks me when our town has trick-or-treating, and every year, she’s surprised when I answer, “Uh…Halloween”. Apparently, in her area of Wisconsin, cities do schedule trick-or-treating…generally for Saturday afternoon at, say, 2 p.m. Rather odd. I thought that it was a “no-school-night” thing, but I wonder if they avoid Sunday Halloweens, too.
I always thought, though, that those families that equated trick-or-treating with devil worship didn’t tend to celebrate Halloween in the first place, and went to church to pray for our heathen souls or something instead.
I also disagree with the “rescheduling” of Halloween Trick-Or-Treating, but mainly from a logistical and organizational view. Where I come from, there weren’t very many houses to go around to for trick-or-treating, so dad would drive us to the nearest neighborhood (Usually 10 minutes away) to go out. My point is that one town may have it on the actual holiday while the next town may not, so those who are commuting in won’t know whether or not it’s even going on. It would be a heck of a lot easier if people would just do trick-or-treating on Halloween (Like you are supposed to) rather than try to get EVERYONE in a community to change to another day.
…and if you believe all that clap-trap about Halloween being “the devil’s night” or just don’t want to participate, THEN DON’T PARTICIPATE and leave the rest of us alone.
Ok… I feel better now. 
I don’t care one way or the other.
Ant kids begging at my door will get an icecream sandwich dropped into his/her
bag just like every other year. 
Really? So all of your co-workers and friends are lesbian witches too?
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I for one, would have been goddammned if my parents had ever accompanied me while T&Ting. The first time I went I was 4 and under the valiant protection of my 5 1/2 year-old brother. The presence of parents is one of my major peeves about Holloween. Every time I hear a parent shout “Be sure to say thank you” from the end of the driveway while I’m handing out candy, I want to shout back, “Hey, shut up! You’re ruining Halloween!”
No, that would be The (Lilith) Faire Witch Project.
Sorry, but no way do my kids run the night unsupervised. Even way back in the dark ages when I was a kid, Mom walked from house to house with us. I’m sure it’s lots more fun your way, but now that I’m a parent, I’d say, “If you don’t think it’s fun, you don’t have to go.” 
Oooh, speaking of dropping fun stuff in kids’ bags…
Every year my dad would relate to us his recipe for chocolate-covered ice cubes, but sadly, we never followed through. One of my greatest Lifetime Achievements, tho, was on a rainy Halloween when I was about 10 and I slipped a huge nightcrawler into a little girl’s bag. The payoff came the next day on the school bus when her brother related her subsequent horrified shriek while my Secret Identity remained intact.
More recently, when I ran out of candy one year, I started tossing in condoms. :eek: That was about all they were good for at the time. 
I’m so evil.