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Happy Halloween/Happy Samhain!!
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Just thought i'd post this.
Two of my friends are going to Glastonbury later to celebrate Samhain, lucky moos!
but i might go to the TJ's Halloween Party, I haven't decided yet
So, what are y'all doing for Halloween/Samhain?
Two of my friends are going to Glastonbury later to celebrate Samhain, lucky moos!
but i might go to the TJ's Halloween Party, I haven't decided yet
So, what are y'all doing for Halloween/Samhain?
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make sure you film it and put it on here
We're operating a no-sale policy on eggs and flour to anyone who either looks under 18, or anyone I don't like the look of this weekend. This results in me having to repeatedly void transactions and refuse sales because half of the staff don't even bother adhering to our policy.
sounds like you permanently operate a no-fun policy.
No, we sell Halloween-related artifacts - costumes, pumpkins etc. What our policy is designed for is to protect people who don't want to get involved in Halloween, and therefore have their house egged and floured for no good reason by little shits who seem to think they have a RIGHT to go up to your house and DEMAND sweets.
What a miserable cow your mother sounds! If she doesn't want children coming to the door the best thing to do would be to put a little sign up or perhaps not even answer the door. People who tell children to 'bugger off' are pathetic. That is no way to treat little kids.
We tried putting up a little sign. Then a slightly larger one. Then an A3 notice. All three were ignored. What's the point?
She didn't tell them to bugger off, i elaborated that bit to make the point of what she was trying to say. she told them to go away in an irritable manner, and besides, you are less than half-qualified to comment on how my mother should treat children.
Good manners? She told them to go away and not bother her. I can think of nothing else one could say.
"I'm sorry kids, I've got nothing to give you I'm afraid. But you all look lovely. Bye"
Strange how its gone from:
"My mum told them to bugger off and don't bother coming back tomorrow."
to
"she told them to go away in an irritable manner"
and now
"She told them to go away and not bother her."
I'd recommend you stop exaggerating in future.
Ok, well first of all she wouldn't be sorry she didn't have to give them anything. They don't look remotely lovely, unless you regard having an accident whilst wearing a blackout curtain being lovely.
Precisely what my mother said involved her telling them to go away and not bother her, and not to bother coming back tomorrow because she wasn't interested, in a very irritable voice because she was not happy in being parted from a very important discussion by kids who're greedy and want to start early in their vandalism and thieving. She did not use the phrase 'bugger off' but that was the sentiment behind what she said, hence my usage of it in the first post on this subject.
Seeing children dressed up and having a nice time is not the problem. My mother discourages trick-or-treaters because some children see it as their right to throw eggs and flour at the houses of people who give them nothing, and are under the impression that it's not actually doing anything wrong.
I'm glad I live in a nice village then. My experience of trick or treaters is vastly different. They're young children accompanied by their parents who just want a mini mars bar. For most of them the fun is in the dressing up.
Same here, I've never had any problems..
The kids have their street cred to think of fs ;[
a few years ago some older kids came round, and my mum had forgotten it was halloween, so she had nothing to give them. they asked if they could have money instead (in a kind of harmless, cheeky way) and my mum gave them a lecture, and said they could have a custard cream and be grateful they got anything at all. never been back, funnily enough.
if all else fails, we just put the dog out in the garden. none of them dare to come in.
I think I gave some kids a pcket of quavers one year. They didn't look too impressed.
*this is a lie
You are lucky. Round here it's a completely different story. True, you get the bunch of kids with daddy at the back making sure everything's ok... At 6 o'clock. By the time Huw Edwards has arrived, so have endless groups of early teenage yobs who're now in that phase where they think they rule the world. I once had one who didn't bother with 'trick or treat', just 'what ya got'. If I lived in a village where I would very likely have seen these children before, I would be much more welcoming and amicable, I might even get something in specially. However, in suburbia, I tend to find it more insulting, more of a case of people trespassing on your property, banging on your door uninvited, demanding that they be provided with food, and taking offence when they're told that we're not really interested. This then results in unnecessary criminal damage, and the police rarely want to know.
I always wonder how much they make.
I live in the suburbs too.
Might go to the pub, not sure yet.
You must live in the parts where they aren't all arses.