Easter Egg... Hunt? WTF!

[Kelemvor]

Well, we just got back from our town's Easter Egg "Hunt". I put Hunt in quotes because that's what they call it but that's sure as hell not what it involved.

When I was a kid, the local Easter Egg Hunt involved going to a park, diving up by age group, waiting for the Go signal, and then making a mad dash into the area and finding all the candy and goodies I could find. It was always lots of fun.

Well. Imaging my surprise when I got to our town's EEH this year. It involved about 12 card tables, with a couple people at each one. Each sponsored by a local company. A huge line of people just walked from table to table and they handed out a few pieces of candy to each person. No Easter Eggs were involved and there was no Hunting of any kind. It was the most retarded EEH I've ever seen. I couldn't even imagine that that's all they could come up with.

When we asked people, they said they used to do it the real way but stopped because all the big kids got all the candy and the little kids got none. I guess the geniuses never figured out you could have different aged kids go to a different area and run around with their peers.

My wife and I were so pissed off we emailed the city to ask about taking over the planning of it. And this is actually two smaller sized towns working together to plan this thing. And that's the best they could come up with.

My daughter was so depressed because we had been telling her how much fun we'd have "Hunt"ing for eggs and candy... I guess this afternoon we'll be hiding our own eggs so she can at least have a hunt.

 

[coldmeat]

When I was a kid my parents just hid candy all over the house, so when we woke up we just ran around the house looking in all the hiding places.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Everyone is a winner with this method, though!

 

[Kelemvor]

Originally posted by: coldmeat
When I was a kid my parents just hid candy all over the house, so when we woke up we just ran around the house looking in all the hiding places.

Well, for Easter morning, we hide an Easter egg basket for our daughter to find. That's pretty much standard fair. But an outdoor actual Easter egg hunt is something that most people I know did as kids as well. Normally sponsored by the community you live in...

And everyone is a winner with the other method as well. Plus the kids actually get to do something.

This was basically Trick or Treating without the costumes.

And if they hadn't called it an Easter Egg Hunt, then we wouldn't have been so disappointed. THey shoudl have called it an Easter Candy Giveaway or something.

 

[Jeff7]

Solution: Give everyone a Taser. The voltage generated by each unit will be determined by a complex equation incorporating each person's age, weight, height, reaction time, and visual acuity.

Putting the "hunt" back into "Easter Egg Hunt."

 

[Red Squirrel]

Haha we don't have anything like that here because it's too cold, though it could be fun to hide eggs in the snow banks lol. When I was a kid my parents would hide chocolates around the house. I'd usually go around looking after we got back from Church.

 

[shortylickens]

When I was a kid we just watched a rabbit fuck a chicken.

 

[MotF Bane]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
Everyone is a winner with this method, though!

Everyone wins in life, we can't let the little children lose. Imagine what could happen to their self-esteem!

 

[sandorski]

My Grand Parents used to setup a Hunt for us kids. Lots of fun. The OP's "Hunt" sounds more like a Job Fair or Food Bank, boring.

 

[kranky]

Our church did an EEH today and it was a real hunt. Areas were divided up by age group and we hid 5,000 plastic eggs, filled with candy and/or money. Kids loved it and while some kids found more than others, all of them seemed to be OK with how many they found. No egg envy.

We actually debated having parents sign liability releases because we had no way to know if some kid might twist an ankle or one kid might push another kid over but we decided against it.

 

[zerocool84]

Yea I love the Easter Egg Hunts my family had as a child. We also did the Egg fighting thing or whatever you call it where two people hit eggs together and the one that cracks first loses.

 

[Slew Foot]

We're raising a whole bunch of pussies in this generation.

 

[se7en]

I understand where they are coming from but that does suck for sure. Even by age group without supervision some kids will get lots of candy and some poor sap will go without. For example my kid who just turned 3 this year racked up at our local hunt because he is more advanced than most of the other children there. He had a ton at which point we shared some with some smaller children because greed isnt what it's about but not every parent is the same.

Anyway good luck getting permission to plan it next year sounds like you guys will make it way more fun like it should be.

 

[EMPshockwave82]

Originally posted by: Slew Foot
We're raising a whole bunch of pussies in this generation.

The "pussies" generation is from the just born until about age 20. Not all parents have bred their children to be pussies but quite a few of them have.

 

[paulney]

We had an EEH at our neighbors' place this morning. That was a lot of fun - they put a ton of preparation into it, and kids had a blast. They also hid some eggs for adults as well, high off the ground where kids wouldn't see them. Instead of candy, there were lottery tickets inside and such.

Awesome.

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: Kelemvor
Well, we just got back from our town's Easter Egg "Hunt". I put Hunt in quotes because that's what they call it but that's sure as hell not what it involved.

When I was a kid, the local Easter Egg Hunt involved going to a park, diving up by age group, waiting for the Go signal, and then making a mad dash into the area and finding all the candy and goodies I could find. It was always lots of fun.

Well. Imaging my surprise when I got to our town's EEH this year. It involved about 12 card tables, with a couple people at each one. Each sponsored by a local company. A huge line of people just walked from table to table and they handed out a few pieces of candy to each person. No Easter Eggs were involved and there was no Hunting of any kind. It was the most retarded EEH I've ever seen. I couldn't even imagine that that's all they could come up with.

When we asked people, they said they used to do it the real way but stopped because all the big kids got all the candy and the little kids got none. I guess the geniuses never figured out you could have different aged kids go to a different area and run around with their peers.

My wife and I were so pissed off we emailed the city to ask about taking over the planning of it. And this is actually two smaller sized towns working together to plan this thing. And that's the best they could come up with.

My daughter was so depressed because we had been telling her how much fun we'd have "Hunt"ing for eggs and candy... I guess this afternoon we'll be hiding our own eggs so she can at least have a hunt.

Well with companies sponsoring it they may have worried about liability issues too. I agree the days of old were more fun!! Now some kids sprains their ankle at the Easter egg hunt sponsored by the local shoe store and next thing you know they have a 100k law suit on their hands.

 

[liluqt]

I just finished boiling 17 eggs to dye, but my niece and nephew conveniently fell asleep for their naptime so I guess we won't be doing it tonight

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: shortylickens
When I was a kid we just watched a rabbit fuck a chicken.

Typical really when you think about it. Don't we all have those fond memories!?

 

[imported_Imp]

Originally posted by: EMPshockwave82

Originally posted by: Slew Foot
We're raising a whole bunch of pussies in this generation.

The "pussies" generation is from the just born until about age 20. Not all parents have bred their children to be pussies but quite a few of them have.

Boo ya, I'm a few years over the "pussies".

As for the "hunt", at least they don't have to eat candy off the dirty dirty ground. The wrappers, they do nothing!

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Your city/town actually wastes money on public easter egg hunts?

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

My parents still have a real Easter Egg Hunt out on the farm. Unfortunately I can't make it this year, but it's always fun. And sure you put some easy ones out there, but it's fun putting stuff where they can't to either. If they see it, then you get it for them, and it works out well. Everyone has fun.

 

[CPA]

If businesses were involved, then it had nothing to do with big kids getting all of the candy. It had all to do with money.

 

[eplebnista]

Originally posted by: CPA
If businesses were involved, then it had nothing to do with big kids getting all of the candy. It had all to do with money.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Kelemvor
Well. Imaging my surprise when I got to our town's EEH this year. It involved about 12 card tables, with a couple people at each one. Each sponsored by a local company. A huge line of people just walked from table to table and they handed out a few pieces of candy to each person. No Easter Eggs were involved and there was no Hunting of any kind. It was the most retarded EEH I've ever seen. I couldn't even imagine that that's all they could come up with.

They do that for trick-or-treating now too. My wife and I thought that since we finally live in a neighborhood we'd get some trick-or-treaters this year. We got maybe five. The rest did what you describe. Oh well, I got to eat lots of candy.

I guess the geniuses never figured out you could have different aged kids go to a different area and run around with their peers.

Wow. Yeah.

My daughter was so depressed because we had been telling her how much fun we'd have "Hunt"ing for eggs and candy... I guess this afternoon we'll be hiding our own eggs so she can at least have a hunt.

That's what my family always did. We did it with our whole extended family (cousins, aunts and uncles, grandparents).

 

[Red Squirrel]

haha my mom set some eggs around the house for my sister's kids when they came over after church. She has 3, one just wants to chase the cat all the time, while the other two looked for eggs. The oldest got more and the youngest was crying lol.