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Originally Posted by Gayle
Well you wouldn't catch me taking my children out on Hallowe'en. I don't condone begging.
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That's what it is.
Or would be at any other time of year.
Trick or treat.
Demands with threat.
Fine, if it's you're all close neighbours, with a few families who've pre-arranged to visit each other's homes.
I don't particularly want disturbing. Unless it's by someone who knows me, and who knows I'll make them welcome.
I don't want phone calls from India telling me their records show I'm eligble to claim for medical injuries I incurred whilst working in the building industry...or it might be down a mine, as happened today.
I don't want knocks at the door, from God botherers who've found the way to my salvation, or even to tell me that Jesus wants me as his very own sunbeam.
I don't wan't double glazing, a conservatory, to give to a charity that pays a sales team on commission, or to have my tiles checked, nor am I thinking of selling my home.
It's a nuisance for me. Getting up, shuffling to the door, faffing with locks and keys, saying 'Sorry, no thanks'.
I feel really sorry for some of my elderly neighbours, who live alone, and who do have mobility problems. They must get really tired and fed up. God forbid they do fall, trying to answer the door.
Leave us be!
Take your twenty year old 'custom', and your pumpkin shaped plastic begging bowl, and post it back to America. Where it belongs, and where they are welcome to it.
