1:54 “Trunk or treats” are actually a “safe trick or treating” thing here (exurban USA) where members of a local community (usually a church, but could be anything) get together in their parking lot, invite local families, and hand out candy to kids. It’s almost like a tailgate party, but for trick or treating. They’re pretty benign, and everyone is usually friendly
I could imagine a kidnapping happening there lol. Kid goes to get candy, gets pulled into car, car speeds off. It really doesn't seem any safer than trick or treating to me but idk
@@zrainyday5266 the ones I've been to always had little booths set up so you weren't actually near anybody's car and also there were a ton of people around so it'd be almost impossible to grab a kid wo witnesses. I do see how the description sounds sketchy tho
Fun fact: A common Dutch translation for Trick or Treat is ‘Snoep of Je leven’ which in English means ‘Candy or Your life’ which I think fits the Halloween spirit a lot more.
One time, some guy invited us into his house and, being the stupid children we were, we actually went inside. I think we were 13. He gave us a small tour of his house, all decorated appropriately, and then gave us a horseshoe and showed us the door. Not a horseshoe each, one single horseshoe between three of us. We just went with it and continued trick or treating completely unphased.
@@supersmilyface1 I can’t remember. I think my friend was really into horses at the time, so she took it Every October the story of the weird guy and his horseshoe comes back to me. I will never forget it
So, I live in Switzerland, so Halloween isn’t very common, but still generally celebrated. We were Trick-Or-Treating and got to an older couples house who were seemingly confused about the whole thing, forcing us to sing Christmas Carols in order to recieve our treat. Our reward? One (1) expired protein bar, with the "On Sale" sticker still on, and a forced hug. Great.
From switzerland aswell! Me and two friends went trick our treating and an elderly couple opened up for us. They didnt quite get it and asked us to sing, so we did. They tought it was so lovely so they just handed us a 50CHF bill💀💀
@@GiveMeMeatballsImHungry So, it’s technically 55 Bucks. But since everything is overpriced here, it’s closer to 35 bucks in "Ability to purchase candy/game station/other kid stuff" money
I'm from a poor neighborhood and we had this one house we avoided because they gave out their religious stuff instead of candy and were kinda mean. One year, they seemed to realize the neighborhood kids wouldn't come to them anymore, so they started walking up to trick or treaters passing by and stopping them to *make* them take their pamphlets. It got so bad that most people stopped trick or treating here and started going to the rich neighborhood, where there was one house that gave out full king sized candy bars.
In my city we have a neighborhood that does that- *with every house* (the rich people giving out king sized bars I mean). Too bad I got too old to trick or treat before going there ever.
The angel harp lady reminds me of a neighbor I had in Louisiana. She was a professional orchestral harpist and every year, she'd sit out in her front yard, also dressed as an angel, and play this golden, ruby-detailed harp that was bigger than her. She gave out little bags of angel cake. I miss her during October.
One time, when I was trick or treating, the person handing out the candy said “do you want candy?” I said yes and he gave me some. Then he said “do you want a potato?” Confused but not about to turn down a free potato, I said yes and he handed me a potato. I ate it raw. To this day one of my strangest Halloween experiences ever.
Potatoes are a kind of nightshade plant so eating them raw can be extremely dangerous, especially once they start to sprout out again. Please be careful!
@@datgaydangernoodle1315 I do not. My parents made us get rid of her after she got out and got knocked up for a second time, because we couldn't afford to get her fixed but we could afford to get her daughter, who my mother loved, fixed and we had her for like 14 years?
This story of mine belongs to my brother. Here in Australia, Halloween is a relatively new thing and only a handful of people do it, a few decorated houses here and there, maybe a few people showing up at your door for trick or treating of course if they don’t just skip your house entirely. So a few years ago my brother went out trick or treating with his friends. They went down to a big block of houses that we usually trick or treat at because they have the most houses doing Halloween in our area. My brothers friends forgot about our little rule about ‘only going to decorated houses’ because, yeah, not many do Halloween here. So they decided to go to a few non decorated houses. All went well, most of the houses knew what Halloween was so they gave my brother and friends their candy, except one house. This next house, the person had NO IDEA what Halloween was and probably thought he was getting robbed by a bunch of 13 year olds, so he gave them each some money. My brother and his friends gave back the money and explained what Halloween was, so the man gave them bags of chips instead, and they just left without a word, chips in bag.
In America we have the rule that houses that give out candy leave their outside lights on and those who don’t turn them off and then we all side eye the houses with the lights off for possibly being sex offenders who aren’t legally allowed to give out candy to children .
Halloween aint new here in Australia, it's just nobody bothers fucking around with trick or treating and just does the occasional halloween dress up party or watches horror movies.
One time at Halloween these same 3 kids kept coming back to our house over and over again to get more candy. After the first time we started giving them mini potatoes instead of candy. The problem was that they kept coming back to get more potatoes.
In my hometown there was a guy who would always give trick or treaters the choice between three barrels, one filled with potatoes, one filled with onions, and one filled with candy. Most kids would just take a handful of candy but I would always go for the potato.
We gave someone a cat once. To be honest, though, he came to the door with some trick or treaters and wasn’t theirs, so we checked his tag, found out he was named Milo and lived quite a distance from us, brought him inside and called his human. She said he loved tagging along with trick or treaters, but usually didn’t go very far. Her daughter was in middle school and out trick or treating with friends, so she called her to come get Milo. We put him in a bedroom with kibble, water, and a litter box to wait. Our adult cat was not happy about a strange cat in the house, but it was the kitten’s first Halloween and she was already confused so she just went with it. About a half hour later, the daughter turned up with her friends, a little confused. “Mom says you have our cat?” We sent them on their way with Milo the orange kitty and his two brain cells, and extra Halloween candy.
I got a nearly empty tube of toothpaste once. It was “unicorn kisses” flavoured, the inside of the lid was beyond disgusting, and it was even rolled up the way you do when you need to get the last sputtering bits out before you throw the tube away. We steered clear of that person’s house after that.
@@hexagonist23 I don’t think you understand. It was USED. It would’ve been fine if it was unopened but someone had USED it. It was trash. Also, I am not complaining. I am just sharing my experience.
@@hexagonist23 Yes, but extremely unsanitary and unusable. It could be compared to getting a half eaten sandwich. It’s free, but someone else has touched it, put their mouth on it, their germs are on it, etc.. You wouldn’t eat the rest of it just because it’s free, would you?
So my grandpa's birthday is on Halloween, and one year we were all sat down celebrating his birthday while also handing out candy to the trick or treaters. Everything was great! We were eating cake, watching some spooky movies on tv, and generally having a lovely time. Then this one kid (who was completely alone for some reason???) realized that we had cake on the table, and demanded that we give him a slice rather than some of the candy we were passing out. We refused of course, but he wasn't gonna take "No" for an answer!!! He returns 10 minutes later with another kid, and now they're both insisting that we give them cake. We still won't give it to them and now they're getting really pissed off! About half an hour goes by and the same kid comes back again, this time with his mother. Now SHE'S the one demanding we give him the cake!!!! My grandma told her that if they wanted a cake that much, they could just go ahead and buy one themselves and promptly shut the door in the woman's face. Honestly one of my favorite Halloween memories, and one of the most ICONIC moments from my childhood.
i got an orange coloured lollypop one year, and assumed it would also be orange flavoured, because what else would it taste like? why would i ever think otherwise? so i took a lick, and to my horror it was liquorice. that's where my trust issues started
Trunk or treat is a real thing done by some churches and schools. The parents decorate the trunk of their cars and hand out candy to the kids in the parking lot. Faster than walking the whole neighborhood, and you get to see all your friends' costumes.
and even if a kid grabber does manage to get in, they wont be able to escape anyway, beacuse if the parking lot is anything like my school’s, it will take a half hour to travel the 500 feet to the exit of the parking lot
Some of my weird/lame halloween treats I've gathered over the years: - oatmeal packets - toothbrush - apple - raisins - juice box I was not at all upset about 4/5 of these because I have always been an old man in a young person suit. The toothbrush is the only Halloween treat I have ever disliked. Once, I was made to answer a quiz question before I could get my treat. "Who is the current president?" I took a moment, thought, and said "Obama?" very confusedly. I was correct, just caught off guard.
I live in Finland, where we don't do trick or treating so much, but we have this celebration around Easter called "virpomisvarpomispäivä" which basically has the same idea as Halloween, except you actually have to give the person basically a decorated twig in return for the candy (or some cash). Me and my friend were doing that one year and we got these really rotten pears from one old lady. They were really gross and we were really young, so we just threw them in a pile of snow. It was so funny at the time.
@@Jupiter-T Honestly never called it that, the day it's done on is called Palm Sunday (palmusunnuntai) and the act itself is called virvonta/virpominen
I find that whenever I binge watch Matt Rose videos, my internal monologue for the next hour or so is his voice. I’m not even British, but every thought in my mind is in this guys exact dialect.
Once someone answered the door pretty late in the evening (11pm-ish) and and he looked and us and said “sorry kids. I ran out of candy, but your costumes are cool. I can give you a crisp high-five instead.” I’m not ashamed to admit I gladly high-fived him.
Oh I have a story about the best stuff on Halloween, if anyones interested- a place in my neighborhood alternates every year between s’mores and hotdogs (and a can of soda) but part of the deal is that you can sit down at the fire pit in their front yard to make your dog/s’more and take a little break from trick or treating. The old couple are always out there to watch the fire and help open soda cans and stuff. It’s a really wonderful (and surely expensive as hell) little tradition that probably wouldn’t happen anywhere but a small, tight-knit neighborhood like mine where everyone knows everyone :)
I remember one year when I was young, I got a pamphlet about how if you celebrate Halloween then you are going to Hell. Absolutely terrified me, not because I thought I was going to go to Hell, but because I was terrified of demons and thought that it would summon one or something. Small me thought that the pamphlet that the crazy Church people gave me would summon demons if I kept. I couldn't even hear the word "pamphlet" without freaking out for like a year or two. I was a strange child.
The worst is when they go on the assault. My neighbors would dress their kids as angels and go hand out Bibles and pamphlets to the homeowners. Keep in mind, this is in the extremely conservative/religious Utah, where all the people in the neighborhood except like 5 houses were Christians... But apparently not the right kind and were going to hell, as the kids were happy to tell people.
@@CLove511 Here in suburban Ohio apparently some people do that with their kids as well. My mom has gotten a few pamphlets over the years that she just throws away. I think it's from a Jehovah's Witness family or something, but I'm not sure.
I never understood people like that. Halloween literally means "the day before All Saint's Day," and I can't think of many things *less* evil than saints.
@@batrachianbill9760 Christian here, I also don’t understand it. I’ve met older Christian’s that claim it’s demonic and I’ve met other older Christians that see no harm in dressing up and collecting free candy. My parents didn’t care. I just had to be careful what I dressed up as and I was fine
one of my neighbors is an old guy who has a massive snake (a python i think? idk) and every halloween he just sits on his front porch with it draped over his shoulders and lets trick or treaters pet it he also hoards cases of crystal Pepsi in his garage for some reason. his goals are beyond my understanding
This weird house I went to as a kid- oh boy. The whole family answered the door- mostly just the mom while the kids stood behind her awkwardly. I don't remember if she gave us candy, but I just remember she gave us these glow sticks with the logo, "The Oogieooves and the Big Balloon Adventure" on them. She then proceeded to tell us all about the show and how everyone should watch it and how much her family loves it DEARLY. I'm not kidding.
Not the worst. But I once my friends and I went to this house the guy had just got back from a business trip and hadn't realised it was Halloween. We went to politely excuse ourselves and wished him a good night, he told us to wait a sec and came out with a packet of cheese flavoured crackers we walked around munching on for the rest of the night. Genuinely the best Halloween experience I've ever had.
Can’t think of the worst thing I’ve gotten, but one of the best was this super rich house with a huge foyer. Inside they had several huge tables laden with every kind of candy imaginable and let trick-or-treaters choose what they wanted.
I feel like such a dick looking back, but I remember going to such houses and being so entitled that I was disappointed they weren't giving out king size candy bars. How quickly the world owes you something just because you think someone can afford it, such a stupid childish mentality I had
i once knocked at the house of a woman who'd never heard of halloween. i explained it to her and she insisted i sing her a "halloween carol". i awkwardly hummed This Is Halloween from The Nightmare Before Christmas, for which i recieved a bunch of bananas. she then invited me, a 7-year-old, inside, claiming "your mum said you can!". my mum was standing behind me saying nothing of the sort. when i refused to go in the woman gave me £1.37 and said i had to come back for Christmas
@@catpoke9557 yeah... she seemed quite sweet, and it was most likely that she was just looking for friends, but inviting a random group of 6 to 7 year olds inside isn't the way to go about it and there's always the what if of whether that's what she wanted us to think and it was just to get us to come inside. im mostly glad we were cautious bc better safe than sorry but a part of me wishes id gone back again to find her bc she was most likely just sad and desperate for human interaction. i went back to that house recently and she doesnt live there anymore so I'll never know what happened to her :/
Slightly related: today on our school announcements our principal said "trick or trunk" instead of "trunk or treat" and we all realized that it sounds weird that way. It sounds like you try to pull tricks and if you get caught they shove you into the trunk of the car
I got what I initially thought to be a ziplock bag of coffee beans, they turned out to be chocolate covered raisins. Didn't eat any as I was always taught by my parents not to eat anything unwrapped (my mom still swears there was a mass candy poisoning in her area when she was a kid, I think it was proven to be an urban legend but she still insists it happened!) I remember an older woman offering me a bowl with totally unwrapped candy covered..somethings? I almost didn't take any but took one to be polite and another after she goaded me to take more. Looking back I'm more concerned how many kids like, picked their butt before reaching into that bowl and now the surface of that candy is germ-city. One of my friends got ramen from a group of college guys who ran out of candy and resorted to handing out cup-o-noodles and sporks, she was actually super excited. My family always throws non-candy goodies in with what we give out to trick-or-treaters, little kids go NUTS for spider rings but usually ignore pencils. High schoolers though are surprisingly very grateful for the pencils.
It is possible there could’ve been a mass candy poisoning during her time. It was more common for people to poison candy a long time back (approximately 1980s-1990s) A while back in 2012 of my area, there was a mass candy poisoning from the milk duds which were boxed candies. Easy to open, and then glue shut. No one died, but there were like 20+ kids who got food poisoning. I don’t know what type of poison was used. My mom would take out all the milk duds we got, and throw them out. To this day, she still does that. Any candies that could be glued closed, my mom occasionally throws out. Anything that is suspiciously wrapped, she throws out.
The worst thing I got when trick or treating, it would either be these shitty lime jello things that I remember eating sometime in summer, or a bag of pita chips. To be fair to the pita chips, my parents did end up enjoying the chips. Now, the weirdest thing I got in my bag would either be a ballpoint pen, or another Halloween bag that included a $5 mcdonalds gift card. The additional Halloween basket I actually got as an apology as earlier that year one of their dogs had attacked me
When I was twelve, I went trick-or-treating as jeff the killer (as an edgy 12 year old would) and some older lady handing out candy looked at me, asked if I was okay, and proceeded to give me a mini bible
Huh, someone else in the comments mentioned their brother giving out Taco Bell hot sauce. I wonder if it's the same guy or if there's just multiple hot sauce guys?
I have a couple quick odd Halloween stories: Not me but a kid a couple doors down from us received a bag of deer blood allegedly. When I try to talk about it again years later he said he never received that. Worst Halloween thing I got was a Christian booklet about the local Church n stuff. I’m not a Christian, and my parents did raise me one either. So very odd A guy in my neighborhood had a fur suit. And was probably a furry. But I never connected those two dots, didn’t really matter cause he gave out king/queen sized candies. It was especially weird he lived in the neighborhood since it was family-oriented/retirement place for the elderly
The worst thing I ever got trick or treating was a tiny fundamental Christian comic book. I was dressed as the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, and the guy handing them out asked me if I liked books. One of my friends hid all the ones our group got in another friend's room as a prank, so at least something good came from it. Second worst was that time I dressed up as a plague doctor and everyone thought I was the black spy from Spy Vs Spy. Very validating that plague doctors are now so common a costume that you can find crummy bagged ones at Spirit Halloween.
I've gone as a plague doctor since 2019 because given the pandemic it was still relevant. breaking the record this year tho everyone thought I was an scp
Damn, that sucks, because that's one of the things I would love to dress up as... sigh. :( Otherwise, some others are just typical devil, grim reaper, and monster clown type of stuff. :p I like them scary. XD But... maybe some originality could be nice too, if I could come up with anything and had the time, money, and resources to put it together, or something. :p (I wonder how scary a costume of The Lich from Adventure Time or The Beast from Over the Garden Wall would be. :p).
I'd love to see someone dressed as a Spy Vs. Spy character as much as I would a plague doctor. Also, last year so many people thought I was dressed as a Harry Potter character because I had on a long black coat with a white collared shirt on underneath with a tie. Guess the chains and gears all over the coat were completely ignored.
@@indigowendigo8165 My friend is gonna try to go as the Beast version of Wirt, but it would be so cool to see a costume of just the Beast. That and the Nowhere King.
The best thing I ever got trick or treating was these little Halloween Chia pet things - like we each got a little vampire or Frankenstein, and they grew grass hair. This neighbor _also_ gave us cans of soda, so pretty awesome.
An old dude gave me a bag of pennies. The bag was a circle of fabric, tied together with twine or something. This was like 2012, you could buy nothing with it
I was trick or treating with my friends and my mum, when I was about 6. Me and my friends ran towards someone’s front door whilst my mum waited at the end of the drive. An old man (looked about in his 80s) answered the door and we said “trick or treat!”… he replied with *“I don’t believe in children!”* and slammed the door in our faces 😂😂… it was very weird, none of us could grasp what the hell he meant 😂😂
He was likely making fun of atheists, whom he assumed all trick or treaters are, because some extremely religious Christians don't like Halloween. my answer uses as much sense as I can make of this, if whoever reading this knows anything else that can solve this please try to.
I DID get ramen once for Halloween. It was my last time trick-or-treating as I was getting too old for it. The senior high school student in me greatly appreciated it.
Man, I wish you'd still be able to go trick or treating when you get older without fear of being judged. I can kinda understand why it's more of a kid's thing but I wish there was some kind of grownups'alternative
Not the worst thing I’ve gotten but definitely the strangest. I was trick or treating with a few friends in another neighborhood. My friends rung the doorbell of an undecorated house. As expected (due to the lack of decorations,) they had no candy for us. But, they did have a huge box of oatmeal cups. We got like 60 oatmeal cups out of this. I loved oatmeal. Those cups stayed at the friends house for at least 2 years. (I think they actually are still there, but we don’t really talk anymore and I haven’t been there for a while.)
The only time I went trick or treating (I was like 7 or 8) for some reason no one gave out wrapped candies, and I dropped my bag, all the candy spilled out on the ground. I cried
I remember me and my younger sister having this man give us a handful of peanuts, WHICH STILL HAD THE SHELLS ON, smiled, and said to us: “You can feed the monkeys now too.” What the fuck?
Once got a king sized Hershey bar, on the outside the rich woman I got it from had STAPLED her business card to the candy bar, not the wrapper, THE CANDY BAR ITSELF. Let's just say that woman got into one hell of a screaming match with my father
@@genericname2747 I almost damn near choked on the staple because I was too excited about it to check it first before biting a huge chunk out of the giant bar, she stapled it in there FOUR TIMES
@@genericname2747 Yeah. I heard about this sadistic father who poisoned HIS OWN SON'S Pixy Stix. The kid unfortunately died. He did it to other kids too. He was executed in the '80s. His nickname is The Candyman.
I was also going to explain trunk or treating, but seems like it's been covered. My online addition is that I live in a semi-rural area, so it was the only way to go trick or treating. It can also be helpful if Halloween falls on a Sunday or something. Can be scheduled for convenience
When I was 13 me and a friend went on a massive candy hunt. Back in 2003 when a kid could walk threw out the entire city and people stayed open until they ran out of candy and the stores ran out of candy from all the candy runs back when people had the spirit of Halloween flowing in their veins I did my last hurray. We left when school got out early at 1am to my place and put on our costumes. Then we went to so many houses I asked to borrow a Walmart shopping cart from Walmart. Now what we did to that cart is both impressive and horrifying. I used a lot of energy to push that cart. So when coming back to the house the cart was without a doubt in pain. By the time we got the cart to my house because I had a good place ready to be able to sort the stuff and we were staying over at my house at the time well the cart broke from the weight. The metal fully bent and could no longer hold the strain of the weight. Those carts carts are designed to hold at least 2000 pounds of weight but we broke the cart. I had to mostly drag the cart back to the store the next day and apologize about not bringing it back the day before and apologized for breaking it. Turns out the guy saw us pushing and pulling it and was horrified at the amount of candy we had. We filled multiple pillow cases and we went door to door and we had to take turns watching the cart and it took both of us to dam near drag it to the house but when we got to a hill the cart was able to get a bit of speed by still really easy to stop because of all the weight. That was the last hurray and I could have trick or treated a few more years but hell nah I went out with a bank and that cart made a few sounds when it hit the ground when the metal fully snapped. To trick or treat after that would have been an insult to trick or treating because there was no fucking way I was going to come close that amount of candy again and well in truth I had so much candy I was able to pass out candy from it while eating it for 2 years and I still had candy up to September of the 3 year after that last hurray. I was 16 when that candy was finally gone. I was 13 when I got the candy and 16 when it was finally gone.
ZAMN. That’s a lot of candy. In my area, most people now and days finish giving out candy around 10 AM, and usually start around 6 AM. Less candy too, only one or two that we get to pick out. Go home with only half or a quarter and a half filled bag. Back in 2010-2012, people started at 5-6 AM, and usually finished around 3 AM because of a devils hour myth about candy being poisoned at 3 AM. Most of the people let us loop around and get more candy from them after an hour or less had passed. Candy was much cheaper to buy back then, so most houses had a crap ton of candy to give, whole hand filled scoops. Go home with a full bag, or two full bags if my mom brought an extra bag. I miss those days :(
Dam now I get less than 6 to 20 kids max trick or treating. I use to pack up far later but now its like at 5 to 6 pm at latest. I am going to set up a little table in the dirt lot across the street from (K) but I am not sure how many kids I will get. I am going to pass out toys and otter pops. Both types of otter pops will be the same but 1 box will be frozen solid and the other frozen cold but in liquid form. Fun fact if you freeze otter pops then let them thaw then freeze again then thaw then freeze again all the otter pops will not freeze solid but will be as cold as frozen just not ice.
I got pranked by a guy in a scarecrow costume sitting in a chair pretending to be a real scarecrow. It was me in front, on the porch about to knock/ring the doorbell, and like 6 other random kids visibly younger than me, with our parents on the sidewalk watching us. I screamed the loudest and that was the last house we went to before we had to go home because I was emotionally scarred. I don’t even think I grabbed the candy. I think they gave it to one of my parents 😂
Here in the Netherlands celebrating Halloween is still kind of new (when I was a kid I could go to kids parties and scary events at school all dressed up, but trick-or-treating wasn't a thing yet, at least not in my area), so my parents and I have trouble getting used to having to have candy in the house around october 31st. We do already have little bags of instant hot chocolate at that time, so when there's kids coming by our door for trick-or-treats they we give them enough hot choco to last the entire winter.
One time while I was trick or treating an old couple grabbed a handful of flaming hot Cheetos out of a huge bag and put it in my candy bag. Just a handful, not even the bag. Just imagine looking through my candy bag. Ring pops, hersheys, dum-dums, then just a singular flamin hot Cheeto
My mom was a dental hygienist so naturally she handed out tooth brushes (with candy also dw) and the kids ate that shit UP. Turns out a Spider-Man toothbrush is really exciting to a 7 year old
I think the worst thing that I got was a protractor. I was actually excited about it to begin with, but then I was told what it actually did and I didn’t like it anymore.
Now I want to troll kids by putting stupid shit in their trick or treat bags. I mean, I'll give them sweets too, but I might also throw in a wrapped pair of shoelaces, or a fake mustache.
Honestly some of the stuff sounds cool like damn cheesecake mix??? Sounds like an awesome thing to do the day after Halloween, or you can save it for whatever next upcoming holiday you got. Man now I wish I got cheesecake mix for halloween instead of awful pencils
Many years ago my mom would let kids choose between getting a few pieces of candy or a bag of unpopped popcorn. She usually ran out of popcorn bags by the end of the night.
How about the craziest costumes people have either seen, worn, or made? I'd say dressing up as a nuclear bomb at like age 7 was a pretty clever move by me lol
Once me and my brother got several bags of Welch's gummies from an old lady that was standing on the sidewalk. As we were leaving, she said "Merry Christmas."
I got the worst thing on Halloween last year : no childrens at the door, while i dressed up as Chara ( Undertale ), and even dressed up my cat plush as the plague doctor. All for nothing. Also my dog sabotaged the party.
Were they scared because you were Chara? I would've come up to you and screamed "Hey, it's Chara! How's Undyne?" This made me realize what a dork I am :V
Not really a treat i got but more of an experience: one time (actually last year [never too old to go trick or treating i say]) i was dressed up as a Postal Pirate (came up with it the year prior after looking at pirate hats when i was costume shopping for my Halloween Hodge Podge costume [it's a combined mix of concepts from costumes of Halloweens prior] and an interpretation of a character from a CD Rom trivia game), it's basically someone wearing both a cheap pirate costume and the box it came in. So there was this lady dressed up as a doctor and she assumed that i was dressed up as lake pollution, when i corrected her and said that i was a postal pirate she not only ignored me but DOUBLED DOWN on her assumption before taking her prop syringe and attempting to vaccinate me. Now some background on me: i am quite autistic and i really don't like it when i get touched, especially if it's strangers. I'm already quite angry at this lady calling my costume ocean pollution especially after correcting her several times. And when i told her (the calmest i could since i made a deal with my mom to not make a scene when trick or treating) to not touch me; she kept trying to inject me. So my plea quickly turned to me aggressively screaming to not fucking touch me as she was proceeding to touch and mess up my costume (it was raining so i was being EXTRA careful with my costume), she ended up getting it after my mom had to intervene and explain to the lady that i am not only on the spectrum, but i REALLY hated being touched and that i was not trick or treating in character (which she was assuming that me correcting her that i was a postal pirate and my panicked screaming was me acting like ocean pollution). The lady didn't really apologize, i was however able to keep trick or treating since my mom actually agreed that the lady wasn't respecting my boundaries and even stated that she was pretty mean by assuming that the costume i lovingly made was ocean pollution and that she was indirectly calling my costume trash. The rest of my Halloween was great (aside from the cold rain against my VERY not waterproof costume), i ended up doing a victory lap when my mom tapped out and completely turned my costume into mush (that was the first Halloween where i didn't keep anything from my costume). If you're curious: this year i'm going as a biblically accurate angel (i got the idea from last year after looking at some wings while shopping for my postal pirate costume), i'm taking extra steps to waterproof it so i won't have a repeat of last year. It's coming along great and i've recently added a Lolita inspired twist to it since it shared some elements from that style. I'm also planning on salvaging a lot of stuff from it for use in projects since it's already getting pretty expensive. I hope this year i can really wow & dazzle the people giving out candy enough for them to not process the fact that i am quite old to be still trick or treating (it cuts on time allowing for more candy!). I also hope i can sign up for a trick or treating charity so i can help people out (and the fact we have a sort of streak of forgetting the red charity boxes and needing to donate our own money and i really want to experience trick or treating with the red charity box! [and it would fit well with my costume]). A bit of a long rambling comment, but i really wanted to get this story out because it really bugged me when it happened. Hope y'all have a happy Halloween and that people respect your boundaries when going door to door and/or giving out candy!
Cheesecake mix? A can of soup? Ramen? Bread? (This is a whole grocery list and the adult part of my brain is elated with the idea of receiving it on a trick-or-treat. I get plenty of food as is and live very comfortably, but the thought still pleases me).
my trick-or-treating nightmare was getting a stale bag of southwest airlines-branded chex mix. comparing the wrapper from then with more recent ones i've received while flying, i have reason to believe that bag was old as balls.
This AWESOME HOUSE gave us these see-through plastic bags. Inside the bags was one mini bag of skittles, 2 strips of that sour rainbow things and some sour patch kids.
I once had a really awkward trick or treating experience last year. ok so me and my older sister went to a house that was /completely/ empty except for a few boxes and a man came out that sounded as if he was drunk and gave us a few pieces of cereal. to add to the awkwardness he told us to not eat it (like i was going to anyway) and it was a really awkward experience lmao
I never got anything more than candy and crappy Halloween pencils from trick-or-treating, though I did get one of those Hug juices in the little barrel-shaped plastic cups once. But I did once get an excessive amount of toothbrush from a parade that handed out mostly candy. I also got a mini pom-pom made out of cheap material, yes only ONE, from the same parade. Edit: Just in case people don't know what pom-poms are, they're the bushy things cheerleaders use
I know people have probably experienced the same thing, but there was this family who lived down the road from my house. Insane decorations, and as most houses go, the better the decorations, the better the candy. They handed out Kraft fruit strips one year.
Last year for halloween i got a couple coupons for a Jasons Deli….that was 10 years expired. The weirdest part is that when we knocked no one answered, they just stuck their fingers out of the mail slot, and pointed to a random box that was full of those coupons that said “take one”
Once I went trick or treating to this old guys door, he was eating his dinner on a tray. On that that tray was *the most disgusting, vile looking spud (potato) I have EVER seen*, nervously asked him "trick or treat?" Holding out my little bag, then without even looking me in the eye, he just dumped his awful dinner into my bag. I have never looked at a mashed spud the same way again
There was some religious nut in our neighborhood who, in addition to giving candy as usual, would give a bible to every kid that trick or treated at their house. It was freaky how many bibles this person had. Considering the amount of kids there were in our neighborhood, they would had to have bought hundreds of bibles leading up to every Halloween to do this. More than anything, I'm honestly impressed that they were able to keep doing this for as long as they did without any parents figuring out who the culprit behind it all was.
we don’t really do trick or treat here in sweden, but my friend’s neighborhood did. so one time when I was having a sleepover at her house some trick-or-treaters knocked on our door and we didn’t have any candy so I just gave them oranges
I once got a small plastic bottle of Worcester Sauce. What is that even? They just handed it to me without any explanation and shut the door in my face. Tastes like barbecue sauce btw.
@@fangwu7576 someone should give you an award of bravery, or idiot of the year or both because that takes some balls to taste a bottle of sauce from a random person that doesnt seem too sociable during halloween
When I was 7 or 8, before I went out trick-or-treating with my parents. My dad filled the candy bowl that my brother would be handing out candy with with taco bell hot sauce. My brother didn't realize at all and by the time we got back, all the hot sauce had been distributed.
