Odd Halloween Behavior Last Night (Penrose: apartments, houses, neighborhoods)

[LHS79]

I am in Briargate (Fairfax area) and last night as the sun was going down saw several cars stop on my street and off-load dozens of kids.

The kids then were trick-or-treating as normal on the street after they were let out of the cars.

The cars stayed on the street for an hour or so then left when the kids were finished.

I have never seen that before but assume it may be people from other parts of town thinking it was "safer" or "better" to be in this neighborhood for the treats?

It was still nice to see the little kiddos out and about since the weather was so awful for the first part of the week.

Of course the porch lights were shut off when the high school kids started showing up around 8p (!).

[gus2]

Yup. it's common.

[otowi]

Yes - there are a variety of reasons people do this - for example - my neighborhood has no street lights, so people don't do much trick or treating there after dark. Instead, some of them drive somewhere else where there is better lighting or simply where they think there are more families with kids and decorations intending to give out candy.

I don't mind at all if the high school kids come, but I do shut off my light pretty early because I go to bed early and if things are slow I don't want to sit around for 30 minutes or 45 minutes in between trick-or-treaters.

[TCHP]

The northern end of the city is where more kids live. Not surprised there are people who go there for trick o treat.

Come down to the Old North End next Halloween and check out the ten blocks on Tejon street between Uintah (Colo College) and Madison (Penrose Hospital) streets. By some estimates, this stretch of the city hosts well over 2000 kids on this single night. There are usually as many parents as well. On cold nights, like this year, some houses are also handing out hot chocolate and hot cider in addition to candy.

https://www.csindy.com/coloradosprin...nt?oid=4128681

[abcdefg567]

I think this is normal. We live in a smaller neighborhood and saw some of that too. I guess they don't feel safe where they live, or maybe live in apartments?

[rochester_veteran]

Originally Posted by LHS79

I am in Briargate (Fairfax area) and last night as the sun was going down saw several cars stop on my street and off-load dozens of kids.

The kids then were trick-or-treating as normal on the street after they were let out of the cars.

The cars stayed on the street for an hour or so then left when the kids were finished.

I have never seen that before but assume it may be people from other parts of town thinking it was "safer" or "better" to be in this neighborhood for the treats?

It was still nice to see the little kiddos out and about since the weather was so awful for the first part of the week.

Of course the porch lights were shut off when the high school kids started showing up around 8p (!).

Parents/Guardians dropping off kids into nice neighborhoods for Halloween happened in Rochester, NY and suburbs, I saw it happen a lot.

Yesterday, my daughter and I spent Halloween with my son, daughter in law and grandsons in Elbert. We went to a church in town for a kids party and meal and it was real nice, good people, good food and the kids were so darned cute and having a fun time! My grandsons went as a Fire Fighter and Colonel Sanders. After we were done with our meal, we took my older grandson Trick or Treating at a few select houses that had their lights on and was obvious they were accepting trick or treaters and then to the firehouse, where they had a nice gathering next to a fire truck (my older grandson loves fire trucks, so he was in his glory!) and they even had a "haunted hallway" that my grandson declined to venture. We then went home to warm up as it was cold last evening in Elbert, but at least it wasn't raining like it was back East. We turned the porch light on and got a lot of trick or treaters and ran out of candy and had to turn the porch light off! I couldn't believe how many kids showed up at the door in a town of 230 people, so I suspect many of them were getting dropped off by their parents from other areas. That's OK as the kids were all polite and respectful and it was fun seeing the costumes they came up with!

[Mike from back east]

I ate all the candy myself.

[Vision67]

Halloween is a great excuse to buy candy and then have "leftovers" that need to be consumed.

Of course, kids will prefer to visit richer neighborhoods. As a 5 year old, my son had already figured this out. We were trick or treating and we had reached the end of the block. I asked him if we should go up or down the hill for the next stretch. "Oh dad, that's easy. Go up. Bigger houses, better candy!"

Today that kid is the CEO of a multi-million dollar corporation.

[coschristi]

We always get a lot of teens. I'd rather see them out trick-or-treating than a lot of other activities they could get caught up in.

Unfortunately, we have whole swaths of streets with porch-lights off & I think parents would rather drive to a block with a lot of lights on than to wander around dark streets. I saw this happening too but I assumed it was neighborhood kids just being dropped off at the corner, because of all of us on this part of the block who had our lights on.

If you saw an almost 6'5" vampire at your door with his blue candy bucket that was my 15-year-old autistic son but I escort him up to each & every door to make sure he says 'trick-or-treat', 'thank you' & to prevent him from just barging on in to play with your dog, lol!

[Sonic_Spork]

The other thing is, it was a bit cold. So those kids may have been driven from an area where it was less safe or well lit, OR from one that was more rural and the homes further apart and harder to get from one to the next.

I bought a ridiculous amount of candy, determined to give every child who went out in the chill, a great big double handful of it...which I did...but I didn't get very many trick or treaters, and now I'm still stuck with heaps of candy. I don't mind nibbling a little of it, but I have way too much. I've been trying to offload it on my coworkers, but there is candy and sweets everywhere here and many of these ladies are on diets and they don't want it either...