#1: Grown women, pushing a stroller which contains a child too young to eat candy and too young to say trick or treat, with a candy bucket sitting on the baby's lap, waiting for a handout. It's even better when the mom has her own candy bucket too. Arrrgh.
#2: Teenagers. If they went to a lot of trouble to dress up and seem to be genuinely into the fun of the holiday, fine. But I'm not fine with it when there's a conversation that goes like this:
Doorbell rings. I open it. Standing there is Donovan, a kid from down the street, wearing a black leather jacket, a huge chain around his neck, and a weird mask. On any other night I would not consider opening the door to such a character.
Donovan: Hey, what's up.
Me: Hey Donovan, nice costume.
(Donovan silently waits for some candy.)
Me: Aren't you going to say trick or treat??
Donovan: Hey man, I'm 15! That's not my thing.
Me: If you're too old to say trick or treat, maybe you're too old to be out trick or treating.
(Except I gave in and tossed a pack of smarties into his pillow case.)
#3: Pillow cases used as candy buckets.
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Sorry I've missed commenting on your last few posts, so here's the recap....LOVE the pumpkins, we carved ours WAY to early and they were all rotted out for last night. I love the costumes too. Only in AZ could your girls dress like that. It was raining for our trunk-or-treat. Congrats on the weigh-in, YOU ROCK! And finally, to Donovan:"YOU SUCK". (And I can't knock the pillow case thing, cause that's what we did as kids!)
Oops -- sorry to all you pillowcase fans; don't mean to offend :)
Pillow cases don't bother me as much as plastic grocery bags!
Another pet peeve? People who ring the door bell even though you have a sign taped on top of it that says, "Please Knock." Duh.
Another pet peeve? Teenagers who don't dress up at all! Kate thought I was too harsh. But one girl came to our door in khaki shorts and a black tank top. I said, "And what are you dressed as?" She goes, "Um...I guess a dancer??" Nice. Apparently she didn't really know either so her response came in the form of a question.
I totally agree with everyone. I too used a pillowcase when I was younger because it was back in the day where you could go to a ton of houses and be out Trick or Treating for 3 hours and the only thing big enough to hold all your candy was a pillowcase. My biggest peeve was the note on the door bell that said to knock. Those who rang my door bell only got one piece of candy while those that didn't got two. I was horrible but you know, you need to be respectful when you go to other people's houses! We have concluded that most of the kids that came to our door were from other neighborhoods and were dropped off. It just isn't as fun when you don't know the kids.
Hey, what's up.
Go home, kid.
Jamie was a little mean. :) "You only get ONE piece of candy because your costume sucks."
But I don't think teenagers need to trick-or-treat at all. I'm not a pillow case fan either. Way too big. You can get a plastic pumpkin for like 49 cents.
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