Very interesting! I remember moving into a new town one year in a good neighborhood across the street from a school, and I prepared with candy and everything, but not a single kid came to my door. It was such a bummer. Meanwhile, my dad in Maryland gets a ton of kids year after year - he attributes it to the full-size candy bars. I really hope trick-or-treating doesn't die off for trunk-or-treating. I only find the latter truly acceptable if a lot of the participating kids live in rural areas where walking door to door isn't feasible.
I should have done a better job talking with my neighbors before we set up for the night. They quickly let me know the next day that I was the youngest in the neighborhood at 37 years old! There were only a handful of small children in the neighborhood, and they all went to other (busier) neighborhoods on that night.
It's because we've produced a generation and a half of weak, boring kids with weak, boring parents. Effectively gone are the independent latchkey kids who went outside from dawn til dusk without cell phones, the ones who tricked-or-treated (and with a much higher propensity towards the former, too, than today's kids!) as a grassroots cultural event. "Trunk-or-treat" and trick-or-treating dates and times being dictated by fiat are an affront to the very spirit of the holiday. A crumbling empire, its culture eroded from within, doubtlessly relegated to the untouched candy bowl of history.
Now if you'll excuse me, I see a cloud I must go yell at
Very interesting! I remember moving into a new town one year in a good neighborhood across the street from a school, and I prepared with candy and everything, but not a single kid came to my door. It was such a bummer. Meanwhile, my dad in Maryland gets a ton of kids year after year - he attributes it to the full-size candy bars. I really hope trick-or-treating doesn't die off for trunk-or-treating. I only find the latter truly acceptable if a lot of the participating kids live in rural areas where walking door to door isn't feasible.
I should have done a better job talking with my neighbors before we set up for the night. They quickly let me know the next day that I was the youngest in the neighborhood at 37 years old! There were only a handful of small children in the neighborhood, and they all went to other (busier) neighborhoods on that night.
It's because we've produced a generation and a half of weak, boring kids with weak, boring parents. Effectively gone are the independent latchkey kids who went outside from dawn til dusk without cell phones, the ones who tricked-or-treated (and with a much higher propensity towards the former, too, than today's kids!) as a grassroots cultural event. "Trunk-or-treat" and trick-or-treating dates and times being dictated by fiat are an affront to the very spirit of the holiday. A crumbling empire, its culture eroded from within, doubtlessly relegated to the untouched candy bowl of history.
Now if you'll excuse me, I see a cloud I must go yell at