Catlady711
11-01-2007, 08:39 PM
The Halloween passing out candy thread got me to thinking and I was wondering how many others have run into the things I have?
I lived in a place for years that didn't get trick or treaters so when I finally moved to a place that did I thought it would be neat to hand out candy again. BAD IDEA!
I had a folding card table set up in front of my house with small piles of candy already set out for each kid, and a large popcorn bowl full of the rest of it I could set it out between groups of kids.
I don't know about other areas, but the kids in my area were HORRID! Half the kids didn't even say 'trick or treat' they just stuck their bags out, and I'm not talking those really little kids who are too shy or just can't talk good yet. I mean older kids 11-15 years old.
Many of them didn't even have on anything I'd call a costume of any type. Kinda looked like they just grabbed a pillowcase out of the closet and started out of the house for some free candy. Others reached WAY over the table to help themselves to a HUGE handful of candy right from the bowl even though we'd told them to take one of the little piles we had laid out right at the edge of the table on their side.
The end all beat all of RUDENESS was the kids (ages approx 8-15) who wouldn't let me put it in their bags, they wanted it in their hands. At first I was truely baffled as to why, until they got to the end of my entry sidewalk, flipped on their flashlights, and sorted through the candy they wanted, and threw the ones they didn't on my sidewalk, RIGHT IN MY PLAIN VIEW!! :mad: :mad: :mad: :eek: :eek:
After those experiences I have not handed out candy since.
Yesterday I had a couple errands to run during trick or treat time and could not believe the average age of the kids!! I think I saw all of about four kids under the age of 5, and only like seven kids between 5-10. All the rest of the kids I saw (and I must have seen about 100 or so) were about 14-18 years old!!! :eek: :eek: When I was that age it was something to be teased about when you were that old and going out trick or treating!! And it hasn't been THAT long since I was that age. I wanna know what started changing with the kids in recent years???
Has anyone else run into any of these things in their areas?
I lived in a place for years that didn't get trick or treaters so when I finally moved to a place that did I thought it would be neat to hand out candy again. BAD IDEA!
I had a folding card table set up in front of my house with small piles of candy already set out for each kid, and a large popcorn bowl full of the rest of it I could set it out between groups of kids.
I don't know about other areas, but the kids in my area were HORRID! Half the kids didn't even say 'trick or treat' they just stuck their bags out, and I'm not talking those really little kids who are too shy or just can't talk good yet. I mean older kids 11-15 years old.
Many of them didn't even have on anything I'd call a costume of any type. Kinda looked like they just grabbed a pillowcase out of the closet and started out of the house for some free candy. Others reached WAY over the table to help themselves to a HUGE handful of candy right from the bowl even though we'd told them to take one of the little piles we had laid out right at the edge of the table on their side.
The end all beat all of RUDENESS was the kids (ages approx 8-15) who wouldn't let me put it in their bags, they wanted it in their hands. At first I was truely baffled as to why, until they got to the end of my entry sidewalk, flipped on their flashlights, and sorted through the candy they wanted, and threw the ones they didn't on my sidewalk, RIGHT IN MY PLAIN VIEW!! :mad: :mad: :mad: :eek: :eek:
After those experiences I have not handed out candy since.
Yesterday I had a couple errands to run during trick or treat time and could not believe the average age of the kids!! I think I saw all of about four kids under the age of 5, and only like seven kids between 5-10. All the rest of the kids I saw (and I must have seen about 100 or so) were about 14-18 years old!!! :eek: :eek: When I was that age it was something to be teased about when you were that old and going out trick or treating!! And it hasn't been THAT long since I was that age. I wanna know what started changing with the kids in recent years???
Has anyone else run into any of these things in their areas?