Trunk-Or-Treat got popular here in MI about 5 years ago. It is usually at churches or schools. You come with candy and set up in the parking lot and everyone pass out candy from the trunk of their cars. The kids come dressed up and they go from car to car and get candy and then there is usually some kind of carnival inside the church or school as well.
It sounds good in theory except...a) It's a little creepy to be like "Hey kiddies, I have some candy in my car...do you want some?" and b) It supposedly promotes 'community living' but I always thought your community was the neighborhood you lived in, where you should be trick-or-treating. It's my theory that it was just made up by parents who are too lazy to walk their kids around the neighborhood.
Anyway, it leaves single 34yr old women without any children, like myself, no place to go for the holiday. It would be weird if I showed up at a church I don't even belong to or a school I don't have any kids in, all dressed up like a creepy witch and tried to entice children to my car, right? Trunk-Or-Treat may have started with a good intention - but it's stealing my trick-or-treaters away!
So, hm, I wonder if it is not popular in your state or if you just don't have it there because you are in a bigger city (though that might actually be the kind of area you would want something like this, with so many apartment buildings).
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Date: 2012-11-11 12:17 am (UTC)Trunk-Or-Treat got popular here in MI about 5 years ago. It is usually at churches or schools. You come with candy and set up in the parking lot and everyone pass out candy from the trunk of their cars. The kids come dressed up and they go from car to car and get candy and then there is usually some kind of carnival inside the church or school as well.
It sounds good in theory except...a) It's a little creepy to be like "Hey kiddies, I have some candy in my car...do you want some?" and b) It supposedly promotes 'community living' but I always thought your community was the neighborhood you lived in, where you should be trick-or-treating. It's my theory that it was just made up by parents who are too lazy to walk their kids around the neighborhood.
Anyway, it leaves single 34yr old women without any children, like myself, no place to go for the holiday. It would be weird if I showed up at a church I don't even belong to or a school I don't have any kids in, all dressed up like a creepy witch and tried to entice children to my car, right? Trunk-Or-Treat may have started with a good intention - but it's stealing my trick-or-treaters away!
So, hm, I wonder if it is not popular in your state or if you just don't have it there because you are in a bigger city (though that might actually be the kind of area you would want something like this, with so many apartment buildings).