Pet Peeves: Trick-or-Treat Edition

ElcaB · October 2013

Tired of slutified Disney characters? Can't seem to pass out candy without your handy travel mug, which you fill will spiked apple cider? List your Halloween-related pet peeves here.

I am outraged when grown adults dress up and collect candy on behalf of their infant child who clearly cannot stomach anything other than breast milk or baby cereal.

I cringed tonight when I saw a van with the hatch open slow in front of our driveway, two overweight tweens hopped out, and proceeded to walk up my driveway for candy before catching their ride to the next house. What in the world!? If you're going to trick-or-treat, you damn well better be willing to "work" (aka WALK) for it.

If you are accompanying a child and your child does not say thank you & you don't remind them to say it, or you stand by while they greedily snatch up two handfuls of candy, you are a mcdouchebag.

bethsmiles · October 2013

I get really annoyed with people constantly telling me I need to dress up for Halloween. Um, no I don't.

I've never seen the first two you mentioned (although lazy ass kids driving from place to place doesn't surprise me). I really don't understand taking an infant trick-or-treating. I can understand dressing them up in a cute costume and snapping some pictures but more than that seems unnecessary.

Question: Why are you getting trick-or-treaters tonight?

SBmini · October 2013

Who is trick-or-treating before halloween!? That would be a pet peeve for me right there. My biggest pet peeve is that I live in a neighborhood now that doesn't have many kids.

So I don't get to hand out a lot of candy. I'm going big this year since I don't need to buy 5 bags of candy, though... full size candy bars for all 10 kids who make it to my house!

Biggest pet peeve for me is people who think they are too good for costumes. We had a halloween party last night and everyone came in great and creative costumes, except one guy. He couldn't be bothered to dress up because he was "over it." Then don't come to a halloween party you jerk.

WinstonsGirl · October 2013

Teens who come out late with only a mask on as their costume. And I mean 16+ years old. I don't care if you want free candy, but at least put some semblance of effort into a costume?? I give them candy anyway since I don't want my house to get egged.

DH was asking yesterday if I was going to buy Halloween candy yet. I told him I don't buy it till the day of, otherwise I eat it all and have to by more. This way, I'm less tempted.

ETA - Oh, and school the day after. It's a freaking madhouse!! Lucky this year that we have a PD day Nov 1st, so the kids have 3 days to gobble everything down before I have to deal with their sugar rush again

chibiyui · October 2013

SBmini said:

Who is trick-or-treating before halloween!? That would be a pet peeve for me right there. My biggest pet peeve is that I live in a neighborhood now that doesn't have many kids. So I don't get to hand out a lot of candy. I'm going big this year since I don't need to buy 5 bags of candy, though... full size candy bars for all 10 kids who make it to my house!

Biggest pet peeve for me is people who think they are too good for costumes. We had a halloween party last night and everyone came in great and creative costumes, except one guy. He couldn't be bothered to dress up because he was "over it." Then don't come to a halloween party you jerk.

Some neighborhoods have "assigned" days that they officially do trick-or-treating........ Not that my sister and I learned that so we could go hit up the rich neighborhoods or anything......

I'm tired off all the marketed costumes for women being "slutty", and I'm also tired of people getting judgey on ladies who wear them. I went to a Halloween party at a bar last night, and most of the ladies who were in costume were side-eyeing other ladies in costume. Seriously, it's a costume party at a bar, cleavage and fish-nets are not that scandalous, get over yourselves, especially if you're judging "slutty" sailor while wearing "slutty" gangster.

KytchynWitche · October 2013

My biggest trick-or-treat pet peeve is that we don't trick-or-treat in South Africa! XD

Most of the bars and clubs have a Halloween party, which is really just an excuse for ladies to go out in their underwear a la Mean Girls. I say hooray for the ladies who have the confidence to go out in their underwear! I am not one of them.

Our wedding venue is having a Halloween dinner-dance next Saturday which could be quite fun, but FI and I aren't going 'cause his sister will be home for the first time since Easter. And it's the day after my birthday.

krizzo17 · October 2013

My biggest pet peeve is 7 year olds who look you dead in the eye and say "can I take 2?" not because they're super excited about what you have to offer, but just because they don't think 1 is enough. This gets me even more than kids who don't say thank you - sometimes they're just so hopped up on the energy they forget, but these other kids really have nerve.

Ven&Radio · October 2013

krizzo17 said:

My biggest pet peeve is 7 year olds who look you dead in the eye and say "can I take 2?" not because they're super excited about what you have to offer, but just because they don't think 1 is enough. This gets me even more than kids who don't say thank you - sometimes they're just so hopped up on the energy they forget, but these other kids really have nerve.

This. It's free candy! Any free candy at all should make kids happy.

climbingsingle · October 2013

I wish we actually got trick-or-treaters. There are only two families with kids in our neighborhood. It just doesn't make sense to buy candy for 4 kids.

katieg520 · October 2013

bethsmiles said:

I get really annoyed with people constantly telling me I need to dress up for Halloween. Um, no I don't.

This! I personally don't like wasting money on a costume. It's ridiculous. I'm 32 years old. I don't need to dress up. Period.

I can't stand when teenagers trick or treat. Idk why... it irritates me.

artbyallie · October 2013

My ToT pet peeve is older kids (some of them teens) who come up to the door in regular clothes, without so much as a mask or a pair of cat ears and expect to get candy. Fuck no. If you're too cool to dress up, you're too cool for candy.

Incidentally, I haven't gotten to hand out to ToTers in years. At my last apartment I got maybe a half dozen small groups one year. I worked on Halloween last year. Our place now is too far off the road and ill-lit for them, but I'm spending the evening with H at my parents' house. We're going to watch the Great Pumpkin special and hand out candy because they live in a subdivision and always get lots of kids. Now I just need to figure out which of my dozen possible costumes to wear...

Teddy917 · October 2013

Not really a pet peeve but a funny ToT story. When I was about six my bro got chicken pox which led to all four of us kids getting it. Right before Halloween! We had costumes picked out and everything. So my parents let us dress up and bought candy and set up stations around the house and then we watched Halloween movies until midnight. I think that was my favorite Halloween.
@ElcaB I totally agree with you on the if you can't walk, don't ToT. My family once did that at my mom's insistance (it was raining) and it wasn't fun.
@SBmini I don't know about where you live but I know where I live (Utah), if Halloween is on a Sunday, TOT is always Saturday or Monday. But that definitely doesn't explain why anyone would get them this early, especially since Halloween is on Thursday. And of course not all places do that.

KeptInStitches · October 2013

My workplace is giving us the option of dressing up this year. Think I can go as a disaffected grad student? It's the most terrifying thing I can think of ...

FutureMrsN3312 · October 2013

All of the above.

-When parents let their kids trick or treat before school. When I'm getting ready for work I don't want to answer the door nor do I want to be woken up at 8am on a Saturday to hand out candy.

-Parents letting their kids ring door bells past 10pm. If its a school night they don't need to be out that late getting candy (just my opinion)

-The same kids coming to door multiple times. I don't live in a rural area. There are plenty of houses to hit up besides mine.

-Lastly kids that keep ringing the door bell. You rang it once. I heard you. Give me a chance to come downstairs, calm the dog down, or finish using the bathroom.

southernbelle0915 · October 2013

- parents taking their babies (too young to be eating solid food) trick or treating.. if the baby can't eat solid food, who is this candy for?

- kids in sweatshirts and jeans who say, "I'm a trick or treater" or "I'm a student"

- trick or treaters who dive in the candy bowl palms first and take a heaping handful of candy

- the ones who don't say thank you

- kids who are obviously too old to be trick or treating

The kids/adults that peeve me are few and far between. Overall, I love Halloween, decorating the house/yard, and when we get trick or treaters!!

melbelleup · October 2013

Sadly my only pet peeve is the kids in my apartment complex do not TOT in our apartment area

They go else where. I mean I don't blame them.. but I was really hoping for at least one kid... nadda. This year I didn't even bother to buy candy or carve a pumpkin. I'm feeling halloween bumhumbug! In fact, the weekend after Halloween, FI promised we could decorate for Christmas because I'm just ready for it to be here. I miss my stairwell with lights on it and my xmas tree and stockings.

kmmssg · October 2013

Rude kids make me mad, but I don't have too many pet peeves for Halloween besides the slutty costumes. The high school kids are (were, we don't get ToTers where we live now) to come around as much as they wanted as long as they are leaving the little kids alone. It is harmless and they could be doing something much worse. You want my 10 cent piece of candy? Sure, here is two as long as you are nice to the little kids.

Growing up, my mom would KILL the mailman, ToTer, etc who walked her lawn. We were taught that we were to NEVER EVER cut across lawns or our lives might be shortened. I taught my girls the same thing and they have taught their kids they aren't allowed to cut across lawns too, even though every other kid does. Makes a Nana misty eyed to see her g'babies not crossing the lawns.....

smalfrie19 · October 2013

I dont know if we will get TOTers this year, we are in a new place and our complex has some kids..but we didnt get a pumpkin (but i do have my haloween scentsy warmers out). I think I may pick up a bag of candy JIC.

Also, FTR I did TOT til I was a senior in HS but I dressed up..every year. Once I was Tinkerbell captured by pirates (my BF and one of my friends) and I did all my candy collecting in hand cuffs..

allelsefaild · October 2013

I hate that I get judged horribly just because I want to wear a skimpy outfit one day out of the year. I dress conservatively 364 days of the year. This is my one chance to get out of my comfort zone. Plus this is the first year I get to wear a medium costume instead of a plus sized one.

ETA: I will be wearing this to an adult party not to answer the door for trick or treaters.

krizzo17 · October 2013

allelsefaild said:

I hate that I get judged horribly just because I want to wear a skimpy outfit one day out of the year. I dress conservatively 364 days of the year. This is my one chance to get out of my comfort zone. Plus this is the first year I get to wear a medium costume instead of a plus sized one. ETA: I will be wearing this to an adult party not to answer the door for trick or treaters.

Not gonna lie, looking great in my Halloween costume was the best reward for working my butt off at the gym all year. If I had thought of it in advance, I would have been even more motivated!

APDSS22 · October 2013

Last year I worked on Halloween, but I was done well before sundown. When I got home, H says "yeah, we had one trick-or-treater, I gave her some candy even though she wasn't really dressed up." I sit there the rest of the night with my loaded candy bowl and...nothing. That was our one and I didn't even get to see her in her non-costume. This year we're in a house in a subdivision and there are kids around. Hopefully, someone comes to take some of the candy I loaded up on or I'll have to finish it myself.

HisGirlFriday13 · October 2013

In re the ToT nights that aren't Hallowe'en: A LOT (like, ALL) of the municipalities where I live have traditionally done ToT nights not on Hallowe'en, for whatever reason. This year, most of them are doing ToT on Hallowe'en itself, and it's been a Very Big Deal to people, though I have no idea why.

RebeccaB88 · October 2013

I live in the perfect neighborhood for TOT'ing. Smaller houses, closer together, easy walking, good streets, with lights. So it's not unusual for me to get 40-60 kids in one night. I get the good stuff and let them take 3 or 4 pieces each. My house has never been egged, tp'd, or anything stolen off the porch. So I guess it works.

My work wants us to dress up this year. I'm meh about it. I'd have to be at work at 7am, work 8 hours on my feet, then run to my cardiologist appointment, then to my PT appointment, before going home for TOTing, all in a costume? Nuh-uh. Not unless I can make it work with my scrubs.

Chipmunk415 · October 2013

Just found out the three little girls next door will be out of town over Halloween. There goes any chance of us getting TOTers.

Big Bro and SIL live in Chicago. Last year they got over 1000 TOTers (I'm not making this up). They went through 80 dollars worth of candy in 2 hours passing it out. Favorite photo is of the HORDE making its way towards the porch.

They are expecting at least as many this year.

ElcaB · October 2013

RebeccaB88 said:

I live in the perfect neighborhood for TOT'ing. Smaller houses, closer together, easy walking, good streets, with lights. So it's not unusual for me to get 40-60 kids in one night. I get the good stuff and let them take 3 or 4 pieces each. My house has never been egged, tp'd, or anything stolen off the porch. So I guess it works.

My work wants us to dress up this year. I'm meh about it. I'd have to be at work at 7am, work 8 hours on my feet, then run to my cardiologist appointment, then to my PT appointment, before going home for TOTing, all in a costume? Nuh-uh. Not unless I can make it work with my scrubs.

For work, I usually just pick one or two costume accessories instead of going all out. Last year I wore my striped "witch" socks with a black dress and mini witch hat headband. This year I'm wearing my Minnie Mouse ears and a subliminal Minnie shirt under a blazer with dress pants.

Maggie0829 · October 2013

FutureMrsN3312 said:

All of the above.

-When parents let their kids trick or treat before school. When I'm getting ready for work I don't want to answer the door nor do I want to be woken up at 8am on a Saturday to hand out candy.

-Parents letting their kids ring door bells past 10pm. If its a school night they don't need to be out that late getting candy (just my opinion)

-The same kids coming to door multiple times. I don't live in a rural area. There are plenty of houses to hit up besides mine.

-Lastly kids that keep ringing the door bell. You rang it once. I heard you. Give me a chance to come downstairs, calm the dog down, or finish using the bathroom.

To the bolded. That is an actual thing that happens? Well if that happened at my house I would scare the shit out of the kids because no one should ever talk to me before 8am unless they wish the wrath of Maggie on their ass.

FutureMrsN3312 · October 2013

Maggie0829 said:

FutureMrsN3312 said:

All of the above.

-When parents let their kids trick or treat before school. When I'm getting ready for work I don't want to answer the door nor do I want to be woken up at 8am on a Saturday to hand out candy.

-Parents letting their kids ring door bells past 10pm. If its a school night they don't need to be out that late getting candy (just my opinion)

-The same kids coming to door multiple times. I don't live in a rural area. There are plenty of houses to hit up besides mine.

-Lastly kids that keep ringing the door bell. You rang it once. I heard you. Give me a chance to come downstairs, calm the dog down, or finish using the bathroom.

To the bolded. That is an actual thing that happens? Well if that happened at my house I would scare the shit out of the kids because no one should ever talk to me before 8am unless they wish the wrath of Maggie on their ass.

Oh its happened. I'm a raging bitch. Especially first thing in the morning. It took every ounce of self control I had to not use 4 letter words that shouldn't be said in front of children. Do people think? If someone rings my door bell early in the AM I think it's because someone died.

climbingsingle · October 2013

That's crazy! I've never heard of TOTing before school. I would be pissed.

Another Halloween pet peeve - parents that don't pay attention to what their young kids are doing. I almost hit a kid with my car last year. He was probably about 5 and came tearing out of someone's driveway right into the path of my car. I wasn't going fast and was about to stop, but holy jeez, did I almost have a heart attack.

Chipmunk415 · October 2013

Considering making some kind of baked goodie to bring into my office on Thursday. Pumpkin spice cupcakes are topping the list.

Coworker has young children and LOVES dressing up for Halloween. But our office won't allow it. (She is also Big Boss's personal assistant/paralegal). She couldn't think what to do. Big Boss does appreciate a good sense of humor. I suggested she have a little laminate sign on her desk on Thursday saying "Shut Down Until Further Notice" and be the Government Shut Down for the day, though she will actually work. (Big Boss has made her own quips about that mess). Coworker might just do it!

WinstonsGirl · October 2013

TOT in the morning/day is dumb. I don't even buy candy till that afternoon, so I'd have nothing for them.

On another thought though, I lived in England for 1 year, and was told no one celebrates Halloween here cos it's a Pagan holiday. Well, I carved a pumpkin and put it out and had candy ready to go. About 3 days before, some kids rang the doorbell and asked if I was the American girl handing out Halloween candy (how he had heard of this, I have no idea). I gave him a couple pieces which made him happy. No kids on Halloween though. I dressed as a witch, which my flatmates found hilarious. The doorbell finally rang and it was my exchange partner, in top hat and tails as BM for his friends wedding. He had come to take me out to the dance portion (I was 19 and had no clue). Anyway, he almost pissed himself laughing, gave me 45 to get the black lipstick off and find a dress. Spent the rest of the night at the wedding.

mimiphin · October 2013

Here the unspoken rule is if the front porch light is off then the house is a no-go.

Also for me if you come to the door, you get candy, no matter how old/young you are.

Pet peeve, when anyone walks across my lawn, I was raised that you just don't do that, in BC it's not as big of a deal I guess

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