Here's what irritates me about Halloween:
We live in a medium-sized, enclosed neighborhood - GOBS of kids so GOBS of trick or treaters. Every year, parents who live in less trick or treat-friendly locations bring their carloads of children, dump them off in our neighborhood and come back for them later. The neighbors almost unanimously gripe about this every year.
My gripe is with those neighbors.
Who cares if we have an extra 50 or so kids? We barely notice them. What are they supposed to do - skip trick or treating because they live in a remote area?
Plus that, some of these same neighbors have large Halloween parties, inviting kids from all over Frederick County, who then trick or treat our neighborhood.
Pettiness irritates me. If we were in a metropolitan area and these were strange kids, okay. But this is such a small town that we know every kid in it. What's the big deal?
We live in a medium-sized, enclosed neighborhood - GOBS of kids so GOBS of trick or treaters. Every year, parents who live in less trick or treat-friendly locations bring their carloads of children, dump them off in our neighborhood and come back for them later. The neighbors almost unanimously gripe about this every year.
My gripe is with those neighbors.
Who cares if we have an extra 50 or so kids? We barely notice them. What are they supposed to do - skip trick or treating because they live in a remote area?
Plus that, some of these same neighbors have large Halloween parties, inviting kids from all over Frederick County, who then trick or treat our neighborhood.
Pettiness irritates me. If we were in a metropolitan area and these were strange kids, okay. But this is such a small town that we know every kid in it. What's the big deal?