So It's Come To This: I'm Ripping Off Bill Maher
Last night was our first Halloween in our new house. Now that it's over with, I'd like to suggest a new rule for next year's Halloween: If you are over the age of eight, you must actually wear a costume if you're going to go trick-or-treating. Please don't show up at my house wearing blue jeans and a hoodie, holding out a pillowcase and expecting me to give you something. And putting on your Vans sweatshirt and saying you're "a skater" doesn't count.
And I hate to be a spoil-sport, but some of you (and you know who you are) have left me no choice. I'm afraid that I'm going to have to declare that if you have facial hair or are old enough to drive yourself from house to house, it's time for you to let trick-or-treating go, at least until you have kids of your own. By the time you hit high school, what you are doing isn't so much "trick-or-treating" as it is "panhandling". Anyway, this is time that you should be spending trying to get your hands on a believable fake I.D.
And I hate to be a spoil-sport, but some of you (and you know who you are) have left me no choice. I'm afraid that I'm going to have to declare that if you have facial hair or are old enough to drive yourself from house to house, it's time for you to let trick-or-treating go, at least until you have kids of your own. By the time you hit high school, what you are doing isn't so much "trick-or-treating" as it is "panhandling". Anyway, this is time that you should be spending trying to get your hands on a believable fake I.D.
posted by Yukon Sully | 1:23 PM
3 Comments:
We had panhandlers at our place who stole two whole baskets (baskets included) of treats and then when we were out of treats because of the thefts, they tore our mailbox of and damaged it. Perhaps there should be an age limit as you suggest. If its a Reno law then the police could patrol.
Well said! AND....what about the rule that we knew as kids? "If the porch light is off, you DON'T go to the door!!" We turned our's off at 8:30 so our kids could go to bed, at 8:55, some morons had the nerve to ring the bell! Our dogs got all fired up barking and woke the kids up! :( Come on, show some decency people!!
thank you thank you! i refuse to participate in halloween because of the big kids. lights were off, house was dark. fully expected to have slashed tires and garbage all over but at least i was wrong about that. i love the little kids. the teenagers need to find something productive to do.
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