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Originally Posted by katex
Best way is when they ask "Trick or Treat", reply "Trick", and throw a bucket of water over them. Is that correct ?  |
I couldn't do that to this one.
She was sweet, and only about three.
Though if I could have thrown it over her head, and got the mother, skulking in the shadows...
I haven't actually had many this year. (So far.)
I do think it's unsafe though. When it's unaccompanied children knocking on strangers' doors.
When did this 'custom' start in the U.K.?
It definitely wasn't widespread in the seventies.
We just made lanterns out of turnips, or jam jars, and watched the girls from the riding school go down the lane on their horses dressed as witches.
If you were really lucky you might get taken up Pendle.
But our Dad always said there'd be too much traffic, and nowhere to park. So we went the following Sunday, in very un-eerie broad daylight.