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Originally Posted by garinda
Ding dong.
Trick or treat?
What they should have said is...
'You don't know me, or my child, who I've stuck a witch's hat on, but we're begging door to door, for food or money, and there is the threat of a trick, if you don't comply'.
I do think it's odd.
Especially when you don't know the people doing it.
Probably because it hadn't crossed the Atlantic in the seventies, when I was a child.
I do remember seeing Trick or Treating mentioned in a Snoopy cartoon, and thinking it a daft thing, even as a seven year old.
I hope they accepted my 'Sorry darling, I haven't any sweets', and my gate isn't hanging off it's hinges.
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Ok ... that clears up something I was going to ask about when this thread first came up. For the life of me I couldn't remember anything special about Halloween, when I was a kid over there; except that the day after was All Saints' Day, and, as all Old Saintonians remember, we got a half-day holiday. Over here it's a great time for the kiddies ... and later in the nite, a good excuse for the adults to dress up and get wasted.
