Trick or Treat (1 Viewer)

[BLReed]

I'm getting fed up with the mentality running amok in the U.S.

Children in one Connecticut town could find themselves all dressed up for Halloween with no place to go, after the district banned parades for fear they would exclude kids who didn't want to take part in the celebration.

The decision by school officials to ban all Halloween parades at the elementary schools across the district has parents moaning.

In addition to the parades being canceled, students are forbidden from wearing costumes. The district also warned faculty that all activities be “fall-themed, not Halloween, and food is not an option.”

 

[mikemiller1955]

is Connecticut a Communist country?

^&grin

I get between 1,000 to 1.200 children every year...

6PM-9PM...with some late stragglers...

they come from all over the city to my neighborhood...

usually costs me about $200 every Oct 31st...

I give them nice candy bars...

Snickers...Baby Ruths...Milky Way...Butterfinger...

we have 2-3 cops working the entrance way and traffic...

I don't mind the time or money really...

it's fun...

I set up on the porch with my hidden bottle of Dewars...

I'm zonked by 9PM...^&grin

and the kids are cute...

so really...it's a blast...

looking forward to it this year...

 

[jazzeum]

Do you offer the parents any of your stash? ^&grin

 

[Go for Broke]

You can really see a subdivision/neighborhood grow up by Halloween activity. When we first moved to a new neighborhood, my wife would buy 15-bags of candy, there were so many kids. Ten years later, Halloween was like a ghost town. All the kids grew up.

Mike, try Macallan scotch, instead of Dewars. It a bit pricey ($55, 750 ml at Costco), but delicious. I don't drink it all the time, but when I'm in a good mood. Typically I drink Jack Daniels on the rocks. A good whiskey is Elijah Craig (750 ml about $30) and very reasonably priced.

 

[mikemiller1955]

Do you offer the parents any of your stash? ^&grin

absolutely...

Mom and Dad need a snort or two to get through that nightmare...

it's total chaos in this neighborhood that night...

not a parking spot anywhere...

I had a guy one year...
total stranger...
walked his kid up to the porch...
I gave his kid some candy...
Dad told his kid to thank me...
then Dad shook his empty cup of ice cubes at me...

I let him pour his own...

 

[mikemiller1955]

You can really see a subdivision/neighborhood grow up by Halloween activity. When we first moved to a new neighborhood, my wife would buy 15-bags of candy, there were so many kids. Ten years later, Halloween was like a ghost town. All the kids grew up.

Mike, try Macallan scotch, instead of Dewars. It a bit pricey ($55, 750 ml at Costco), but delicious. I don't drink it all the time, but when I'm in a good mood. Typically I drink Jack Daniels on the rocks. A good whiskey is Elijah Craig (750 ml about $30) and very reasonably priced.

thanks for the tip...

I got on John Jameson for a while...a good Irish whiskey...

it's either that or Dewasrs...

tasted it at a golf tourney...
sponsored by the Galveston Restaurant Association...
they had a different drink on every hole...
Tequila...Scotch...Margaritas...
skimply clad, sexy girls pushing it on you on every tee box...
all the golfers got so drunk...

 

[Combat]

For reasons I've never understood they sometimes designate a day other than Oct 31 for the kids here to trick r treat. You have to check the local paper to figure it out from year to year.

 

[mikemiller1955]

For reasons I've never understood they sometimes designate a day other than Oct 31 for the kids here to trick r treat. You have to check the local paper to figure it out from year to year.

it can be pretty warm down here in October...

I have seen parents dress their little children in these heavy bulky hot costumes...

and the kids sweat do death...

try wearing this in 90 degree weather and walking 8-10 blocks...

 

[BLReed]

School Board has now reversed its Halloween ban. It seems that some outrage
parents started a petition. Signatures quickly grew. As over 2,500 signatures
were obtained in short order the Board changed position. It seems that several
Board members were also up for reelection in November, which probably helped.

I never miss local elections. Even if it only consists of Dog Catcher on the ballot..

 

[Toy Soldier Brigade]

I had a Dewars bottle costume when I was ten.

 

[theBaron]

For reasons I've never understood they sometimes designate a day other than Oct 31 for the kids here to trick r treat. You have to check the local paper to figure it out from year to year.

It depends where you live. I find that the boroughs and cities tend to do that, while more rural communities don't. I grew up in Franconia Twp, which was still more or less rural, with some developments here and there, and Halloween was always on Halloween (and Mischief Night the night before).

Heck, when I was in high school, I was in the band, and one year, Halloween fell on a Friday night, and we had an away football game. As we were loading up for the trip to the other school, a couple of us went around the block in our uniforms, trick-or-treating as marching band members. Our uniforms included shakos, and that was a convenient place to store the goodies.

But when I moved to Bethlehem, it hit home that the city designates a date to be Halloween, usually the Friday night closest to the 31st. It was a little bit of a culture shock. And in Allentown, the city stages a Halloween parade, which is usually held on the Sunday before Halloween. I can see doing that, because of traffic control, but it still does seem odd. Also, in my neighborhood, most of the kids are little, and their parents take them out between 5 and 6PM. The sun's still up. It doesn't seem very Halloween-y to me.

I don't usually pay much attention, though. Halloween's not that big a deal to me, and I'm not usually home when it's scheduled.

Prost!
Brad