Trick or Treaters who get driven around piss me off.

[Rabrrrrrr]

What the fuck kind of bullshit is that? Driving your kids around.

This country is getting too goddamned lazy.

[tinfoil tiaras]

1. They suck

I was a "secret agent" for halloween one year, wich involved high heeled boots and i WALKED all over my friends' neighborhood...I couldn't even get into the little red wagon they were pulling along. You gotta work for your candy kids. Anyways, all that walking is good for you, it'll exersize all that candy weight off of ya... :D

The only reason to ride in a car while trick or treating is if its pouring down rain. Period. Thats an unwritten law of halloween.

[sakabatou]

2. We always used an umbrella

[hickman]

3. Maybe their parents are bringing them from their crappy neighborhood,

to a better one. I'm pretty sure I saw that tonight. I mostly have lived in blue collar neighborhoods though. I've seen it alot.

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. I don't mind it if the kids are being driven to a different neighborhood

It's the kids who get driven on their entire journey that pisses me off.

And it's happening more and more.

I don't know if it's fucking lazy ass useless kids' fault, or the fault of fuckin' lazy ass parents who can't be bothered to burn a few hundred calories walking around with their kids.

[hickman]

11. I have never seen this. I thought I'd seen it all.

Assho#es abound these days. This isn't Halloween. It's just a candy grab by lazy entitled people. Just another extension of their every day lives.

[Sequoia]

43. Walking around is the fun part.

I love to walk everywhere. At lunch I'll walk to the city library which is 7 blocks away and then round town all the way back. People can't understand why I just don't drive there.

[Nevernose]

9. Yeah, but from house to house?

I've driven my kid to better neighbobrhoods before, but I park, get out, and walk. I think what the OP was talking about was people who sit in the car and watch their kids ring the doorbell, then idle forward while the kids go the next house.

Or, in the alternate version, the whole family drives from house to house.

Pisses me off, too.

[Broken_Hero]

24. Yeah, its a weird one

I saw this for the first time last halloween...kids getting out, ringing the doorbell...then running back to the car, and moving off to the next house...

In my youth(not so long ago) we would walk miles...it was all about the candy...if there was 589784548 houses to go to, that had free candy, you can bet the kids I hung with...walked...:)

[Shine]

4. I hear what you're saying, but sometimes the parents drive to a specific

neighborhood b/c theirs isn't suitable for trick-or-treating and they want their kids to be relatively safe in a well-lit area. Our neighborhood is one of the ones people drive to. I don't have a problem with it, truthfully. But, I agree, being driven to lots of different neighborhoods during one night is a bit much and smacks of too much greed.

[AllegroRondo]

39. I dont mind that

I live in a subdivision in a rural area, we get a lot of kids from houses on the rural roads far from anywhere.

But if they're going to come to the subdivision, park the car and walk like everyone else. I cant stand the parents that chauffer their kids from house to house and clog up the streets for everyone else.

[Shine]

41. I totally agree. That house-to-house thing is bullshit.

not to mention wasteful.

:hi:

[Left Is Write]

51. I don't think I've ever seen that, though I've heard of it often.

[AlCzervik]

6. i had 2 tonight that looked old enough to drive themselves

[bif]

7. We have a traffic jam in our hood

They wipe use out in 1/2 an hour.

[William Bloode]

8. Lemme tell you about lazy people.

I live in an apartment complex, and i see young people 20-30 get in their cars to drive 400' to the office, or mail room, or to visit.

I'm 40ish and officially disabled and always walk throughout the complex.

[Skittles]

17. OH TELL ME ABOUT IT

the people I work with complain about their weight, then pick up the phone to call someone who is five cubes away. WTF!!!!

[bikebloke]

36. Seen the same

Once I was locking my bike in front of the video store. Across teh street, a young woman got in her car, then drove around the block (due to the one-way street system) to the video store. She jumped out - certainly not injured or crippled - then ran in to return her flicks. Then drove back across the street and parked. And no, it wasn't a busy street to cross on foot.

[mad-mommy]

10. we live ....

where it's mainly rural, but our home is in a little development. I understand why they drive the kids in, it's much safer, but can't they park and walk? There's only about 20 homes who handed out treats. We had people flying up and down in cars, where there are no street lights. Then when it's really late, we get drive ins who bang at the door when all the treats are gone, and our lights are off. I had nothing left to give, the emergency candy was gone, and some lil' cutie, very young, was standing all by herself banging on the door, while the parents sat in the car. I just didn't answer, and now I feel awful about it.

[spacelady]

12. Why aren't YOU out pounding the pavement for candy? You expect

US to do it For you? Disparaging these brave kids while you sit in the comfort of your TIVO & XBOX fantasy land???!! Get OFF your couch potato ass & GOTC= GET OUT THE CANDY. ASS

[hickman]

13. Geeze. I hope i missed the joke here.

I hope I'm that stupid.

[ghostsofgiants]

16. I don't know what's funnier...

Spacelady's post, or the fact that you completely missed the sarcasm of it.

[hickman]

19. Thanks for pointing it out to me primate1,

how kind!

[ghostsofgiants]

27. I know sarcasm doesn't always come across in text...

But come on, It's pretty obvious in that post.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

21. ...

:spray:

:rofl:

[Rabrrrrrr]

28. So you're saying I shouldn't have alerted on it with a clicker finger

as jittery as Dobson's cock on underage she-male prostitute night, nor sent that letter to the head of the FCC to get spacelady shut down?

:crap!:

[youthere]

48. Oh god....

DOBSON'S COCK.You said DOBSON'S COCK.Now I have this horrible horrible image of DOBSON'S COCK prancing through my mind. Great. Just fucking great. Not just DOBSON'S COCK, but a prancing, preaching, fanciful DOBSON'S COCK. Never EVER say DOBSON'S COCK again.



:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

[Rabrrrrrr]

60. Dobson's cock! Dobson's cock! Dobson's cock! Dobson's cock! Dobson's cock! Dobson's cock!

Dobson's cock! Dobson's cock! Dobson's cock! Dobson's cock! Dobson's cock! Dobson's cock! Dobson's cock! Dobson's cock! Dobson's cock! Dobson's cock! Dobson's cock! Dobson's cock! Dobson's cock! Dobson's cock! Dobson's cock! Dobson's cock! Dobson's cock! Dobson's cock!

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[gkdmaths]

14. yeah!

No shit!

I had to hump through the jungle over 25 square blocks to get my quota of glucose when I was a kid - alone. Dad was still at work bringing home the roast beef and mom was home handing out cheezy puffs - I had to make do on my own two feet.

Kids these days (sheesh!)

;)

[reformedrepub]

15. Depends

on how cold it is bro....

[blogslut]

18. We trick or treated

in the snow. :)

[reformedrepub]

20. Yeah me too

but my kids are much softer than I was.....

[MrCoffee]

37. if you can't handle a little frostbite, you don't DESERVE candy.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

22. Jesus...this is what my dad would've said if I asked to be driven around...

Me: Can you drive us from house to house while we trick or treat?
Dad: What the fuck are you talking about?
Me: Can you drive us from house to house while we trick or treat?
Dad: Your legs broke?
Me: No.
Dad: That's your answer.

My Dad was awesome.

[Oeditpus Rex]

23. Not to mention

it would've been humiliating to have one of the 'rents take us trick-or-treating when we were kids.

Besides — how could we commit Halloween mayhem with them watching? :shrug:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

25. I think I was on my own treat or treating at age 11.

Of course, we lived in a really shitty neighborhood until I was 10.

Seriously though, I would have been sooo embarassed to be driven around like that though. Even if the weather sucked, there is still no excuse. I slogged around out there in the rain & snow up huge hills and it was worth it.

[Oeditpus Rex]

26. I don't remember my folks ever going with us

But then, as far back as I can remember we went in gangs of like 10-15 kids, and if memory serves a lot of 'em were older'n me.

And anyway, that was before sex predators and serial killers and stuff were invented.

[PVnRT]

29. Sounds like mine

n/t

[marzipanni]

30. So, you gotta problem wid dat?

[noonwitch]

31. I had two different parents in wheelchairs bringing their kids around

Without using a car.

[Midlodemocrat]

32. My exceedingly stupid 14yo went out last night with his friends

to a few houses on crutches. He's in a cast because of a broken foot.

What an ass.

[Blue Diadem]

33. I saw a couple cars doing the stop and go last night

not as much as I've seen in the past though. We tend to get more drivers when we have our halloween date different than neighboring towns..two years ago it was a traffic jam.

I remember my dad driving us during rain..largely due to being a rural neighborhood with no street lights or sidewalks. I can still remember falling into about a foot deep hole when I was about 8 and limping home. After that, I carried a brighter flashlight.

[ChickMagic]

34. I always had to walk

But it was with the neighborhood kids who were my age.
That was from 5-9. When we moved, I went alone from
10-11. We moved to Dallas and again, I was on my own.

In high school, I had to take my little sisters around.
Sometimes it was so freaking cold I couldn't feel my
feet. I was only allowed one piece of candy from each
of their bags.

So, now I go overboard and fill up bags with candy
for the trick o' treaters.

Weep with me, will ya? :nopity:

[MrCoffee]

35. Standing Ovation! If you ain't humping that candysack around on your own...

you ain't trick-or-treating.

[bigwillq]

38. If it rained....

my parents would drive us around.

Makes sense.

[bif]

40. We have traffic jams on our street every year

Folks pack a ton of kids in their vans and SUVs, and out candy gets wiped out in 1/2 hour. It's outrageous.

[tigereye]

42. we walked in the rain

the boy and I. Husband gave out candy to the few who braved the rain and our hill.

I never would dream of driving, to another neighborhood in addition to ours, or from door to door. That's just absurd.

[xmas74]

44. Our downtown is open for trick or treat.

Every business offers candy and goodies for a safe Halloween and the streets are blocked off-no chance of a child being hit by a car or of children being driven up and down the roads.

The churches in town also offer celebrations ("bouncy houses" as my daughter calls them, velcro walls, meals, candy, etc) and a few offer trick or treat in their parking lot. Even the local university offers it in the dorms but children must be accompanied by an adult. The candy has to be marked w/ the room number and hall and those handing out candy must tell Housing. Housing marks their rooms w/ special signs.

In my town, the only reason for a parent to drive their child up and down every street is because of laziness of the parent, not of the child. Heaven knows we've made it quite safe around here. The town encourages children to go house to house only in well-lit areas and officers patrol to make sure that younger children are w/ an adult and older children are in groups.

[njdemocrat106]

45. I remember I was driven around one Halloween

As I recall, it was cold and rainy, and I remember some older teenage guy in a dinosaur costume we bumped into (deservedly?) chewed us out for not roughing it in the inclimate weather.

[ikojo]

46. Oh, bbbuuut if the pwecious progeny of America

walks they could twist an ankle or fall and scrape their pwecious knees. That could hurt their self esteem because their friends might see them and laugh.

[Rabrrrrrr]

49. Good point! Helmets and knee pads should be required, too!

Since we do seem to be in the "none of ouw pwecious widdle chillen gets hurt!" era.

They should be driven around, with at least two adults per child (because we all know every child gets abducted and sodomized by pedophiles and the insane on Halloween night), they shouldn't be allowed to dress up (because we know every child in a costume will catch on fire that will, sadly, not kill them, but leave them an empty, hollow shell of pain and misery for 100 years), and they should have helmets and knee pads and elbow pads, as well as 300 miles of reflective striping wrapped around them, long heavy pants to avoid abrasions, long sleeved shirts, two parkas (don't want to catch the flu! Oh, and they should have their flu shot before going trick or treating, too), six hats (and if any hat covers any reflective strips, add more reflective strips), and they should be carried by someone (because all that walking might hurt their heart), and all their candy should be thrown away when they get home (because we know that every piece of candy has poison, razor blades, or LSD on it), and, quite truthfully, all children should be tied up in the basement of their parent's home from October 29 to November 3, and their parents should stay home from work to patrol the perimeter of their property with assault weapons, grenades, and bombs, to ensure that no liberal homosexuals molest their children, slip them drugs, hit them with a car, or set them on fire.

[xmas74]

52. Wait a second!

There's candy w/ LSD on it out there and my kid didn't get any?

I feel ripped off. I could take that to the local university and make a profit, dammit!

[Patiod]

58. I bet a Freeper copies your post over there

to prove how the liberals coddle children.

I can just see it now! I doubt their satire meters work too well.

[Rabrrrrrr]

59. Probably.

:eyes:

They'll say "Look at what liberal believe!" and then post it and go "See - they all think candy is laced with LSD because they're all doing it, so they just assume that everyone else is doing it!" and other nonsense.

And then they'll go back to their kiddy porn and turn the lights off in their basement and pretend that their girls dressed in little yellow dresses with flowers in their hair, being taken to the zoo by daddy.

[Zavulon]

47. I owe you one, bud.

The title of your thread actually made me laugh out loud, and the content of your post intensified it. Gracias, amigo.

What I'd like to know: how many parents spent more on gas than the candy collected by their kid(s) was worth.

[ChoralScholar]

50. I took my 2 y/o to specific houses of teachers I work with,

since I don't know anyone here besides them. Bless his heart, we covered nearly 40 miles round trip for a plastic-pumpkin-full of candy.

[NMMNG]

53. I saw cars going up and down my street the entire time last night

:wtf: When I was a kid I had a blast walking around the neighborhood, seeing other kids in costume and going from house to house. Next thing you know the kids are going to have the candy delivered to them.

[MissMillie]

54. when my son was VERY little, I drove him

but we only went to 5 houses and they were spread out over 3 towns.

It wasn't really trick-or-treating, I guess. More like a night for mom to show off MillieSpawn

[AutumnMist]

55. We Drove Our Daughter Around In Some Areas

and then walked around at different spots. The frozen rain was awful, so we drove to some houses when it got bad. The tinkerbell outfit wasn't very warm. :) But we had a good time and we walked to most of the houses. I think most people who were doing it came from other neighborhoods like we did and weren't really sure where they were walking at first. We drove to a few houses while looking for the section we wanted to go to and then parked and walked. It happens. But I agree that many kids get shuttled around just for the sake of being driven and it takes the fun out of Halloween in general. :)

[dropkickpa]

56. Yeah right!

I gladly dragged my bad knee ass through the entire neighborhood in the rain with Dropkid (roughly 2.5 miles). I can't wait til she's a little older so I can stay home and hand out candy (I love getting to see all the costumes and I'll go all out on decorations, I don't see the point in doing it when I won't be there the whole night to show it off).

What really ticks me off is, in my neighborhood, there are kids who get driven in and dropped off, but none of them have costumes. I don't have a problem with kids from bad neighborhoods coming here, I have a problem with them not having some sort of costme. What the hell is up with that? It costs NOTHING to make up a half assed costume. We had very little money when I was a kid so we got pretty darn creative coming up with costumes that didn't cost anything. Also, I hate it when I see a 16 year-old with no costume doing this? I honestly don't see how it could be fun, my favorite part was dressing up!!

[havocmom]

57. Our town is about five blocks by six blocks and most kids have drivers

Most of the kids who actually hoof it are offspring of radical fundies who believe the kids are tucked away at the church sponsored event to protect them from the demon worshipers :rofl:

The teen-agers running the church sponsored event to protect the kiddies from demon worshiping Halloween affectionatoes adjourn the event early so THEY can go trick or treating. THEY drive. They also use cell phones to keep watch out for any parents who might bust them and to co-ordinate their return to the church to be there when the pastor comes to lock up.

It's pretty funny. The fundy kids come by our house three or four times during the evening. Moms and Dads are busy fishing in De-Nile ;)