How Lazy are Trick or Treaters These Days?

[Chris A]

When my kids used to walk around I would always go with them.. Dust off the old stroller for the ice chest and the battery TV so as I wouldnt miss the game though...

 

[MegaloManiaK]

Originally posted by: Entity

Originally posted by: Amorphus

Originally posted by: alm4rr

Originally posted by: BDawg
When I was a kid

I marched to school in TEN FOOT SNOWDRIFTS! and we didn't have toothbrushes, we used a bare ROOT!

bah, I brushed my teeth with my FINGERS! and whats this about "toothpaste"? we were lucky if we had some sand, otherwise we'd use the dirt as an abrasive. and darned it if our teeth weren't whiter than the first winter snow.

and I had to carry my 4 siblings to school uphill both ways with no shoes and no socks, and we all shared ONE too-small jacket. you were lucky if you didn't get eaten on the way to school by a bear, too. and that bear would be running downhill.

Kids these days.

You think you had it rough? No socks and shoes? Pfft.

When I was a kid, we didn't have feet. I walked to school on bloody stumps, twelve miles each way in the freezing snow, uphill both ways, and I LIKED IT THAT WAY!

Rob

WALKED?

Hell we crawled to school, through broken glass.

And that was the good days, on bad days popa would chase us with a baseball bat smaking us in the head with it calling us morons.

An i loved it that way, how else are you going to amount to anything in this world.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Ask them how fat their overeating asses are gonna be after 10 more years of their mommies driving them around.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: MegaloManiaK

Originally posted by: Entity

Originally posted by: Amorphus

Originally posted by: alm4rr

Originally posted by: BDawg
When I was a kid

I marched to school in TEN FOOT SNOWDRIFTS! and we didn't have toothbrushes, we used a bare ROOT!

bah, I brushed my teeth with my FINGERS! and whats this about "toothpaste"? we were lucky if we had some sand, otherwise we'd use the dirt as an abrasive. and darned it if our teeth weren't whiter than the first winter snow.

and I had to carry my 4 siblings to school uphill both ways with no shoes and no socks, and we all shared ONE too-small jacket. you were lucky if you didn't get eaten on the way to school by a bear, too. and that bear would be running downhill.

Kids these days.

You think you had it rough? No socks and shoes? Pfft.

When I was a kid, we didn't have feet. I walked to school on bloody stumps, twelve miles each way in the freezing snow, uphill both ways, and I LIKED IT THAT WAY!

Rob

WALKED?

Hell we crawled to school, through broken glass.

And that was the good days, on bad days popa would chase us with a baseball bat smaking us in the head with it calling us morons.

An i loved it that way, how else are you going to amount to anything in this world.

We had ONE pair of shoes for fourteen kids, and we were so poor I didn't have a name until I was twelve! 😉

 

[Spoooon]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Spoooon
I think it's just a matter of safety. If I had kids, I wouldn't care if I lived in an area that I thought had no crime, I'd still be out there with the kids. Granted, we'd be walking around, but if their mom took them, I'd rather they drove.

It's not safety it's paranoia....it's having a big effect on kids. When I was in college a couple years ago (the second time, I am 32 now), there were parents at registration, sometimes with kids sometimes without....it felt like junior high school really. Even when the kids were there they were goofing off with their brother or sister or friend. We even had classmates that had to check if it was OK to stay late at the lab to finish (late being like 1-2 hours after a 3-5pm class).

I had a younger friend that I just got off the phone with....he moved to NYC with a 40 year old woman (he is like 28-29 and childlike), he had his father call her when he left the apartment for a few hours to tell her they were breaking up and to leave. She apparently liked to go out at night and he wanted to screw around on his "NEW TIGHTAS$ G4 Y0!". Anyways he got all p!ssed at me when I thought it was insane that he had his dad call his live-in g/f.

There's a difference between holding your kid's hand when their 18 and going to college and holding your kid's hand when they're 8 or whatever and going trick or treating. 😀

 

[BDawg]

Originally posted by: Spoooon
I think it's just a matter of safety. If I had kids, I wouldn't care if I lived in an area that I thought had no crime, I'd still be out there with the kids. Granted, we'd be walking around, but if their mom took them, I'd rather they drove.

Exactly right. My dad went ToT with me until I was 10 or so, but when he did go, we frickin' walked. He complained the entire way, but we did walk.

I don't get why parents these days are so paranoid. John Gacy's been in prison for at least 20 years now. 🙂

When I was a kid, there was another boy in the neighborhood who couldn't go outside of his driveway without his parents watching. This went on until he uh...left for college. This kid would get his ass kicked constantly. Today it seems like all little kids are like this one. If they're all like this, who's going to do the ass kicking??? 🙂