Dystopian
my old job did this a few times - people would bring their kids to the fucking parking lot. it sounded super weird so i never participated.
What kind of sad childhood involves celebrating Halloween in an office parking lot.
Usually it’s a church parking lot.
Or a strip mall and the storefronts are also handing out candy to entice customers to browse.
This started from churches
They’re fun but I think it’s more of a supplement to actual trick or treating. There are certain walkable neighborhoods that become hot spots. If you live on such a street count your blessings. I used to, it’s super fun and I miss it
Slightly off topic but what in the All-American fuck is the "Junior Enlisted Association?
Junior Enlisted are classified as E-1 through E3. They are Soldiers, Airmen, Marines, and Sailors who are either in their first few years of enlistment, or people who achieved a higher rank, but through incompetence or illegal activity were busted down in rank as punishment.
Each branch does it their own way, but I can speak to the Air Force. If you have a pulse and know how to say yes sir you automatically go up in rank with time. Until you reach E-3. To get to E-4 (a Sargent of some sort in most branches) you must pass a test and be selected by a committee. It’s not difficult to do, but it’s really hard to do it your first time testing. So E-1 through 3 are considered junior because it’s assumed they don’t have much experience yet, and very little responsibility.
I looked it up, seems like some kind of fundraising club for low-ranking enlisted soldiers.
An MMO I play just started their yearly Halloween festival in-game. There’s a dungeon/zone where you roam around an area in groups of players, and the area is filled with enemies and occasionally floating ghostly doors that, when you interact with them, monsters appear and drop candy.
I played some of that for about half an hour earlier when I realized that the whole idea of trick or treating is… Not really a thing anymore. And that’s weird to think about. Because somehow, the event of Halloween is now basically entirely about the candy getting? Like, they eliminated the door-to-door at night thing. So now it’s basically a car show with kids getting candy?
As I stood there, in-game, knocking on doors and trick-or-treating and fighting mummies, spiders, and ghouls, I was just so confused how they took the traditional aspect of a weird and quirky but harmless and fun holiday away in favor of… just candy.
Like… No more spooky, no more pranks, no more mischief. Just “here’s your cheapass candy”. Maybe I need to go to one of these to understand it or something, because I can’t imagine it.
Like nightmare before Christmas but everybody’s a lobotomized eunuch.
Well in the US nowadays, People will shoot you for ringing their door bell. It’s all the freedom, you know?
trunk-or-treat is a kkkristian plot to keep their kids isolated
No. It’s a natural consequence of a car-centric life-style that has been facilitated, intentionally or not, sense the 50’s.
If that were true, it wouldnt have become popular in the last tennish years. This absolutely is a church thing, i have never seen normal people do it
American streets became so unwalkable that people just lazed around parking lots instead.
These became popular in the 2000s as a direct result of a lot of Stranger Danger propaganda.
They didn’t really take over until covid times when the churches pushed hard for them. It was basically the last big victory churches are getting in their crusade against “satanism” whatever the fuck that is
It’s just helicopter parents and stranger danger manifest. Sad, really.
Well they won’t be getting mine. I won’t be in my car on Halloween, I’ll be at home, watching scary movies and drinking rum and coke while giving out increasingly large handfuls of candy to those that actually use the words “trick or treat.”
Also eating candy.
And possibly throwing up.
A bunch of cars in a parking lot lined up is so lame, poor kids.
think about how miserable their lives must be if their parents are so paranoid they think trick or treating in their affluent neighborhoods is ‘dangerous’.
i live in one of the safest cities in the country. i notice that new residents who move here… put up ring cameras all over their properties. if you ask them why they will tell you it’s because there is so much crime here and they have to protect themselves from home invasion etc. what they really do is just post racist/paranoid screencaps anytime a black person walks by their house to their facebook community pages.
it’s insane how delusional people are and how they are using tech to dig their delusions deeper and deeper.
