The WORST thing you ever got in your Trick or Treat Bag

[Pumpkin_Man]

Hallowerd, every October, as it gets closer to Halloween, the media is rife with all kinds of horror stories about kids bring hime apples and the like with neadles or razor blades in them. Most of these stories are pure milarky, but they allways make a big deal of it just the same. It's also the time when they constantly beat the proverbial drum about child molestors and other predators that use Trick or Treat as a means to do their dastardly deads. The facs suggest that most of these perverts would not operate on such an obvious day liek Halloween.

As for my remarks about "New Fangled" or "Modern," I suppose you can chalk that up to the fact that I am almost 50, and a bot set in my ways, but recently there has been some situations in my family, which I will not bore everyone here with, that I do not like in regards to changes being made, and traditions falling by the way side because of those changes. I am not condemning anyone for liking modern things. I love computers, tv, stereo equipment, digital photography, and all the other conveniences that everyone else likes, but I am also very tired of hearing how some tradition that I loved for all of my life, is no longer "apropriate," or "fits the modern spirit." Trick or Treat, in my town, is restricted to a 4 hour time period, and the reasoning behind it is "It's safer this way," or "It's what everyone else is doing," or "It's the modern way of doing things, and traditional TOTing is not in touch with today's world." And while it's still being clung to by many people, it seems that more and more, tradition in general is being shoved aside to make way for changes that I don't want. In s imple terms, when I talk about "modern" or "new fangled" in a negative way, I am refering to unwanted and unnecessry change. Those Christian Fundamentalists you mentioned, for instance. That is something that I would consider a "new fangled " idea. I don't know how long it dates back, but I didn't hear of Halloween being "satan's holiday" until I heard it on tv in the 80s or 90s. Everyone I knew, Catholic or Protestant all celebrated Halloween.

Mike

[myshy]

The worst i have ever gotten was a pack off pencils and a easer.Thats pretty stupid for a halloween treat!I mean it s halloween guys some one turn the lights on in there!Youy give out candy!

[Ghoul of the Graves]

I wouldn't mind pencils and/or an eraser. I'm an arty person.

[Pumpkin_Man]

One time I got a key ring with a logo for an insurance compny on the tag. That was not as bad as an automobile dealership flyer, but it's pretty sad when TOT is used for advertising.

Mike

[Ghoul of the Graves]

Yeah I guess it is.

[Rising Dead Man]

Yeah thats a dumb idea. Using trick or treating for advertising.

I never minded getting pencils. But now I agree. Its just lame. Trick or treating is for CANDY! I repeat! CANDY!!! Or small toys and candy. And no. Healthy foods and fruit DO NOT count as candy!!!

[Kyu]

I've never gotten anything bad, but I've been refused candy.
I don't even know why!

[Rising Dead Man]

Maybe they thought you were too old.

[Kyu]

I was 10 when it happened.
And I was short. Half the size of the rest of my group.

It was probably my costume. I was an angel.
Not scary enough I suppose.

[Pumpkin_Man]

Well it could be worse. You could be like 'good ole Charlie Brown,' and get nothing but a bag of rocks. <narf narf>

Mike

[RckyMtnmomx3]

That was so cruel, I want to go back and egg their house for you.

[Kyu]

Well it could be worse. You could be like 'good ole Charlie Brown,' and get nothing but a bag of rocks. <narf narf>

Mike

I'd love to get a rock, cause then I could say "I got a rock.".

Egging houses is cruel. Even for them!

[Pumpkin_Man]

I remember when I was a kid, I actualy did get a rock. A woman who lived a lone, who was into making her own costume jewelry, had these really shiny polished rocks that she would give out for ToT. They were all different colors, too. I still have it burried some place in a box fullof memorabilia.

Mike

[Halloween_crazyy]

The worst I ever got was a toothbrush. As if I didn't already have one!

[Rising Dead Man]

Toothbrushes! Toothpaste! My god it's Halloween!!! Quit ruining the Halloween spirit with reminders that candy rots your teeth! It's Halloween! Let people have a worry free day!!!