10-29-2008, 05:35 PM | #11 | |
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It's all about learnign to work for what you get, pal. Plus, when everyone handing out the goods is somebody you know from church, what's cool about that? "Tell Sister Larsen thank you kids and then move over to Borther Hunt's minivan and be sure to be courteous." Blecccchhh. You want to run through the courts of your subdivision, tearing through flower beds, trqampling bushes, rudely grabbing handfuls of candy from the proffered bowl of the grouchy neighbor that you never see and whose name you don't know and don't care to learn all while sweating your guts out in a cheap costume from whose mask you can barely see as you dodge traffic while crossing over to the other side of he street. PLus, you occasioanlly find some homes creepy but you still need to GET MORE CANDY and so you push on. All of this is lost in the Trunk or Treat parade.
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Your kids want candy? Why not just go down to Walmart, buy the 200 piece Val-U-Pak and hand it over to them? Wouldn't that be a lot more efficient if your goal is to just get your kids lots of candy? I'm with Creekster - if the little shits want candy they've got to WORK for it. Trunk or Treat is for California Namby Pamby Wussies. |
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10-29-2008, 05:57 PM | #15 |
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At the Church?
So why not just let them do the trunk or treat?
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Yes it did, my firend, yes it did. For a while in the late 80s and the early to mid 90s here in NorCal good families everywhere believed that tainted candy and bladed apples and so forth were very common and only getting worse and so trunk or treat was adopted to take place IN LIEU of trick or treat. It was not fair to the kids, so I made my then young son trick or treat on his own, with the rule that I had to look through his candy before he ate it. THis admonition served to make sure it was safe and to let me take all the snickers and reese's out before he got to them. WIn-win. BFM said it best: Trunk or treat is an abomination.
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10-29-2008, 05:59 PM | #17 | |
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My ward doesn't do trunk or treat anymore. We are sensible people, avoiding abominations. I don't think the babysitting is at the church. I am fortunately past the point of my liffe where I care where it is (or if it happens at all) so I am not sure abotu the logistics.
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10-29-2008, 06:03 PM | #18 |
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We did Trunk or Treat in our ward for a few years but the kids revolted. I was a primary teacher at the time and they announced they were going to do it again and kids went nuts. Groaning, whining, yelling. It was hilarious. So they canceled it.
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10-29-2008, 06:06 PM | #19 |
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If Prop 8 fails, kids will be taught Trunk or Treat in schools.
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10-29-2008, 06:08 PM | #20 |
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I've never in my life heard of Trunk or Treat.
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