Halloween Events

[P.C.]

lol....you got a love a wise-crackin skeleton.  

  That's a good one 49er

[lazy Marik]

Interesting point you make P.C... the streets aren't crawling with little munchkins anymore? Are there less kids walking around on Halloween these days, compared to say, 10-15 years ago?
 

[Sportsdude]

depends on the neighbourhood. If you grew up in a neighbourhood where all the kids where the same age and nobody moved, well it would eventually seem like a quiet halloween because kids grow up. When we moved we ran out of candy at the new place.
just neighbourhoods going through cycles.
 

[Russ]

Not really SD.. PC's gotta point. I know young couples that take their kids out in certain areas only.. or even malls.

Not because the neighborhood has no kids.. cause they dont trust the neighborhood for their kids safety. My parents used to let us go off on our own in groups of our friends at 10 and up.

[P.C.]

Hallowe'en functions are bountiful now.  They weren't so much 10 years ago.  I think the move is to get the kids off the streets.....but I don't think it's so much about trusting the neighbourhoods as it is about the older 'kids' out on the street causing various degrees of trouble.  Almost all community centers, churches, schools and the fire department put on Hallowe'en parties. (here the best one by far is the fire hall.  Decked to the nines with scary stuff and someone hidden with a bullhorn making ghostie and goblin comments)

  I remember Hallowe'en night, just barely after dark, there would be hoards of kids. Now there are only small bunches of the 10 to 12 year olds.  I don't get many kids at my place...but I think it's because it's a little more rural. *cry*  I often have more pumpkins out than the trick-or-treaters I get.  I think last year we had 6 kids....and they all came at once.

[purelife]

Sportsdude wrote:
depends on the neighbourhood[FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00"]. If you grew up in a neighbourhood where all the kids where the same age and nobody moved, [/FONT]well it would eventually seem like a quiet halloween because kids grow up. When we moved we ran out of candy at the new place.
just neighbourhoods going through cycles.
 

 This might apply to where you used to live but here, it's completely different.  This would be your first Halloween here and you wouldn't know about kids and families until you are trick or treating with your kids or was a kid trick or treating in these neighborhoods.  

 I know people who are scared to open their doors to hand out candy because there was one time where young "punks" through things at their faces, dangerous chemicals.  It's cruel.  And, there are kids with parents who just prefer the malls because there's always that one bully who would take all the candy from the lil kids AND that one person to blow a firecracker around these lil kiddies.  

 If I was trick or treating with little kiddies, I would just stick to the neighborhood that I know, probably up and down the blocks and stick with other parents as well.  The more, the better.  Carry flashlights and cell phone.  I wouldn't drive up to another neighborhood for better candy or something.


 

[Michel]

     

[Lil Me]

Most municipalities around here have banned the sale of fireworks, due to fire, injury, etc.
 
 But you can still buy them on Reserve land.
 
 
   

[Sportsdude]

yeah older kids. blah. last time I ever went out was grade 7.
most kids my sisters age just go to a friends house for a get together now.
 

[49er]

Russ wrote:
Not really SD.. PC's gotta point. I know young couples that take their kids out in certain areas only.. or even malls. [/DIV]
 so true.  Carloads of out of town kids come to my neighborhood each year

[lazy Marik]

WHAT?! last time you went was grade 7 SD? I'm planning on going this year!  

[Sportsdude]

yeah, grade 7
or was it grade 6.
So long ago I can't remember.
Football got in the way in high school, plus I was commuting 100km's a day, no friends in my area so it was pretty pointless.