• rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    20·
    3 天前

    I don’t care who comes up. Kid, Teen, Adult, you get some fucking candy. You showed up, I’m out here, have a couple of pieces.

    Teens get the shit end of the stick, always. There’s no lack of activities for kids and tweens. Teens are usually left out of community things.

    Build that bridge to the teens in the community; in a couple of years, you’ll be dealing with them as beginner adults that’ll start out better if you’re that neighboor that gave them $0.30 of candy

  • Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    2 天前

    I loved watching the kids in our neighbourhood go from parents carrying them around all the way to teens wondering if they could still dress up and run around like the kids they still were in their hearts. My kids are tall and got a lot of flack once they reached adult height even though they were only 12.

  • AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    4 天前

    As a kid who grew up tall (and therefore given weird like very early). 100%. These days, I don’t even care if it’s an adult trick or treating, and they’re not wearing a costume. Let people have fun. Let people be kids.

      • KaiReeve@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        4 天前

        This was also my experience, except one person actually told me I was too old to be trick-or-treating. It didn’t help that my grim reaper costume was actually scaring the smaller children.

        • fartographer@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          4 天前

          My first year to skip trick-or-treating, I hid in my mom’s bushes. When people would walk up to take candy, I’d casually walk out with my hands in a nonchalant “surprise” pose, and I’d say “boo” in the most calm, monotone voice I could muster. People would jump or scream a little, see me approaching them fully deadpan, and scream before running away.

          I was asked to stop by some of the neighborhood parents who said it was significantly more terrifying and traumatizing than if I had performed a proper jump-scare.

      • fartographer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        4 天前

        My last year was in high school. We filled our buckets with candy that we purchased ourselves, and then ran around the neighborhood “restocking” all the houses after yelling “Trick-or-Treat!” We’d accept and immediately eat one piece of candy each from anyone who offered, and one of us would ask, “what do we say?” and we’d all shout “thaaank yoooooouuuuu!” with candy in our mouths.

  • Shindo66@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    3 天前

    Everyone in my neighborhood always has sooo much candy that they just want to give it away to anyone. The kids in my neighborhood go to the rich neighborhoods just a little farther south. Is 13 and 15 too old to trick or treat?

    • PhoenixDog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 天前

      Is 13 and 15 too old to trick or treat?

      There’s no such thing as being too old to trick or treat. If you are in a costume and you are out to have fun and not be an asshole, you get candy.

  • binarytobis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    4 天前

    One year, I think I was around 12, I told my family that I thought maybe I was too old to trick-or-treat so I would figure something else out. They were effusive about how wrong I was and unanimously told me absolutely not, I was still a kid and 100% I had to go trick-or-treating.

    The next year I assumed I was still young enough, since they were so insistent the last time, so I told them I planned on going again. They all gave me worried looks and said I was clearly too old.

    I don’t remember what age it was, but there is an exact age that people find acceptable, apparently. I’m tempted to go out now, many years later, just out of spite.

      • Aneb@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        4 天前

        Thats always been my question for the childless adults. We should be able to dress and walk around maybe an hour after dark to different houses and if there’s q party stay for a drink

    • ryathal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      23·
      4 天前

      If you can drive you’re on the too old side. Even then if you show up towards the end you might end up with whatever is left in the candy bowl.

      • PhoenixDog@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 天前

        The only people who think you’re too old to trick are treat are prudes and assholes.

        If you show up at my house in a costume, you’re getting candy. My partner and I are in our 40s and Halloween is our favourite time of the year.

  • TheJesusaurus@piefed.caEnglish
    46·
    4 天前

    I never understood people who got bent out of shape about giving a 14 year old 9 cents worth of candy one day a year.

      • TheJesusaurus@piefed.caEnglish
        8·
        3 天前

        Yes, I was using a form of language known as “hyperbole” where you deliberately exaggerate to make a point.

        However. A quick google shows me I can buy a box of 100 mini chocolate bars for $13 at Walmart, or roughly 13¢ per bar.

    • Polisheocket@lemmy.zipEnglish
      8·
      4 天前

      It’s an old school Boomer mindset. My parents used to get drunk and mess with the older looking kids. Kinda messed up now that I look back at it

  • usernamefactory@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    2 天前

    Why would I ever deny candy to someone of any age as long as they’re in costume? They’re taking part in the holiday, aren’t they? Insane notion.

  • cokeslutgarbage@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    3 天前

    Two Halloweens ago, a family dressed as the Addams family came to my porch and everyone took candy, even the adults dressed as uncle fester and Morticia. I was inspired. So last year, my parents dresses up as Wednesday and Enid, and my 4’10" mom put on a wolf mask to cover her face and my dad walked around holding her hand and she came back to my house with a full bag of candy.

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 天前

    My kid is nineteen and trick or treating with someone raised Jehovah’s Witness who’s never gone before.

    This is the true meaning of Halloween: Corrupting souls and stealing them from Jesus.

  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
    11·
    4 天前

    One of my neighbors was giving out nips and scratch tickets for the grownups last Halloween.

    He just got his 2-month chip…don’t think he’ll be doing that again this year.

  • Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 天前

    I lived in SE Idaho and the people there were ruthless. Trick or treating was over by age 12, and people wouldn’t give candy out to teenagers. Trick or treating ended by 7:00 and people didn’t like you coming to their neighborhood.