Non-Scary Halloween, Please

[CroFlames]

Dp

[Hack&Lube]

Comic Sans MS, the universal font for "ignore"

[CroFlames]

That letter wasn't written in comic sans.

Although comic sans is horrible.

[Coach]

Looks like Calibri to me. It's the word default now.

[Kswiss]

I think this should be on the responsibility of the parents. Too scary? Don't go to the house.

Halloween was awesome growing up. As kids we looked forward to the scary houses.

[GirlySports]

forget the kid, I'm scared of that stuff

[CaptainCrunch]

I have a funny feeling that this is a typical internet joke.

I can't see a parent sending this out, more then likely little crybaby Johnny would be taken to "safe" houses or to the mall.

If I got this letter, I would extra scare up the house, that would mean more candy for the kids brave enough to get to the door.

[codynw]

Halloween is dying anyways. My house got 150+ kids ten years ago. Now it's maybe 20-30.

[Inferno099]

Originally Posted by codynw

Halloween is dying anyways. My house got 150+ kids ten years ago. Now it's maybe 20-30.

Probably depends on population of kids in the area

9 years ago in the part of Royal oak we live in we'd get the 2 kids as homes in area just getting built....
Each year it has been slightly increasing as population of kids in neighborhood increases.

I think we were over 100 last year and I'd wager being Sat this year will be 120 or more.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by codynw

Halloween is dying anyways. My house got 150+ kids ten years ago. Now it's maybe 20-30.

I'm in an older neighbourhood and we used to get 10-20 kids. Now young families have moved in and we get 50ish.

[photon]

As someone said one would have to know the neighbourhood to really gauge... I could probably do a letter like that in my area and not get any negative comments, though they'd probably just let me know their house was scary so I could avoid it, and that's probably the tactic I'd take in that situation (but that's with the benefit of many years of mistakes and agonizing of similar situations where it feels like there's no win).

But it's easy to sit back and be an internet parent and judge what the exact right thing to do and deride parents who don't think of that in their quest to try and balance having their kid included with their friends and everything else.

I guess they should have said "Sorry Johnny you're a little scaredy-cat we'll go trick-or-treat at the church all by yourself while your friends go together without you because you can't handle reality, next year grow up some and be more normal."

[Coach]

Originally Posted by codynw

Halloween is dying anyways. My house got 150+ kids ten years ago. Now it's maybe 20-30.

It's almost like those 150+ kids all aged 10 years and are now in their late teens/early 20's.

[Bandwagon In Flames]

I remember being scared to death by one house every Halloween growing up in good old Monterey Park. Every year the guy would run around his lawn chasing kids with a real chainsaw. I'm assuming the teeth were not in it, but it was loud and super scary all the same. They gave out full size chocolate bars though, so if you were man enough to run past the guy it was well worth the reward.

Didn't scar me for life, but I certainly remember it quite vividly 20 years later. I could understand parents taking exception to this level of scariness, but if they'll spend money on spooky decorations for the kids you damn well let them.

[Yanda]

I was at Home Depot the other day and I saw a little girl start crying when she triggered the motion sensor in a Halloween decoration and it reached out to grab her. I high 5 the decoration whenever I walk by but I can see how sheltered children could be scared.

The Father took her over to it and showed her it wasnt real and they went on with there shopping.

My Dad did the chainsaw thing 1 year when I was younger, you can use the chain brake to stop the chain from moving without taking it off.

[The Goon]

This made me think about the (fictional) neighbourhood that Charlie Brown lives in. At some point before Halloween, someone from every house would have gotten together at a community meeting and unanimously agreed to give him rocks in his pillowcase. Not one objection. Did they hate him that much or his whole family?

"How will we know it's Charlie Brown when he shows up at the door?"

"Don't worry, he's an idiot. His costume will be f___ed up one way or another."

Then the community association head makes the sign of an L against her forehead and everyone laughs.

[troutman]

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J. Walter Weatherman is a one-armed man used by George Bluth to stage intricate scenarios to frighten George's children into 'good' behavior (or more charitably, teach them valuable life lessons).

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by The Goon

This made me think about the (fictional) neighbourhood that Charlie Brown lives in. At some point before Halloween, someone from every house would have gotten together at a community meeting and unanimously agreed to give him rocks in his pillowcase. Not one objection. Did they hate him that much or his whole family?

"How will we know it's Charlie Brown when he shows up at the door?"

"Don't worry, he's an idiot. His costume will be f___ed up one way or another."

Then the community association head makes the sign of an L against her forehead and everyone laughs.

Not to derail the thread, but man everyone was terrible to Charlie Brown. The rocks in his halloween bag, clearly his parents suffered some kind of horrible speech related handicap or were horrible drug addicts that mumbled everything, never bought him new clothes, made him cut his own hair, and didn't share in his activities like making a halloween costume.

His so called friends were horrible to him, Lucy with the fake psychiatry booth and pulling the football away and verbally abusing him. His sister treated him with emotional standoffishness.

I wouldn't be surprised if he showed up at a 10 year reunion with sleeve tattoos a raging heroin addiction and having suffered through an 8 year dominant slave relationship with Lucy.

But back to your regularly scheduled not scary halloween thread.

[Royle9]

Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't the mall's usually designed for safer/easier/less scary trick-or-treating for the younger ones? As someone else pointed out, if I'm a direct neighbor, sure I'd definitely understand but you cant force a whole block/community to adhere to your wishes, its just not going to happen.

#### when I was young 6+ I'd look specifically for the scary homes, its what Halloween was all about. These days you see less and less but its the parents discretion.

[dubc80]

Going to malls for Halloween is lame.

[squiggs96]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

Please tailor my surroundings to my personal characteristics. I am super important and the world should shape itself to suit my preferences. Thanks in advance for your understanding.

Some people are ridiculous. The next thing you know they'll be asking people to hurry up in the car wash bays and getting them to go back at 10pm.