cross-posted from: https://pixelfed.crimedad.work/p/crimedad/755906400830131681
Brought my daughter to a trunk-or-treat and got this so so fun sized pack of peanut M&M's. More of a trick than a treat really.
That's not much fun.
That is the most pathetic thing I’ve ever seen
Soon they're going to change the name to "M" and sell them individually
I bought one of those big 180 piece fun size bag and opened it up to put it in a bowl and holy shit everything is sooooo small. I don’t think I’ll be buying that shit anymore it’s pathetic
180 pieces of the 'fun size' they packaged back in the 1980s would have been a haul.
nowadays, 'fun size' means 'teeny tiny pieces, big huge ripoff'.
What is a trunk-or-treat?
It's where you take your kids to teach them to take candy from a stranger's trunk.
For various reasons, not everyone can do traditional trick-or-treating. The idea behind a trunk-or-treat is to provide a more accessible approximation of the experience. It's also another opportunity for Halloween fun for everyone. The way it works is that volunteers, frequently business and other organizations, but also individuals, set up in a parking lot with decorated vehicles and hand out goodies to the kids who show up in their costumes. There are also typically games and other kid activities. And that's all there is to it.
Just a little tidbit to add:
One of the common reasons I've seen trunk-or-treats, instead of traditional door-to-doors, is due to dangerous neighborhoods. One community had a high crime rate, so the local church set up a trunk night so parents could bring their kids and feel safer.
Neat. I feel like it removes some of the magic from decorating houses, but having never seen one it's an unvalidated guess.
Not sure how the accessibility is any different, but my neighborhood tends to be a drop in location for most the city, so we're just kind of expected to met kids where they're at. Maybe we're just used to it?
No magic is removed. It's just another Halloween event. Regular trick-or-treating is still a thing that happens. For various reasons, not everyone can participate on Halloween night so this is a good option to have.
I learned about trunk-or-treat while living in South Carolina. I didn't live in the highest quality town at the time. Apparently, one Halloween over a decade ago, a small boy and his dad went up to a house in our town while trick-or-treating. The guy inside was strung out on meth, though, and thought he was being raided by the cops when the child rang his doorbell. So he responded by emptying a full clip of an AR-15 through the door, killing the little boy and his dad.
Ever since then, local families always did a trunk-or-treat instead. The local school would open up their parking lot for trick-or-treaters. Adults would line up their cars in the lot, with their trunks open and, typically, the inside of their trunks were covered in Halloween decorations. And they would just hand out candy from a stash in their trunks. Kept everyone safe, made traveling on Halloween secure in a well-lit environment, and you could collect tons of candy with just a quick circle around the parking lot.
It wasn't the traditional way to go trick-or-treating, but it was better than cancelling Halloween altogether because of a few crazies in the town.
Halloween for countries where people drive monster trucks to work.
I saw the post about how this picture flips upside down before I saw this OP
I bought one of those Halloween mix bags last week and it actually had an empty skittles package about this size. Literally empty, sealed with what I can only assume was the factory fragrance of skittles.
I thought I was just unlucky and I figured I would make a shit post out of it, but a bunch of people are replying with similar experiences. It's outrageous!
Give it two years, and then all she will get is an empty bag
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