"Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle" (1500sand535)
10/31/2019 at 22:28 • Filed to: None
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"Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle" (1500sand535)
10/31/2019 at 22:28 • Filed to: None | 0
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And it’s just a crazy amount of people roaming the sidewalks? With kids everywhere and lines at the doors?
And thought to yourself: “I’ve never seen a Halloween like that.”
Well, I grew up in the suburbs and then lived in a college town for 8 years and Halloween was fun but never more than a smattering of kids and families. The suburbs were too spread out and the college town didn’t have that many kids in trick or treating age near me.
Now I live in a neighborhood and it’s like one of those movies. The sidewalks are overflowing with people. Kids are everywhere. I’ve heard the busiest areas get 1,000 kids.
It’s awesome. And my daughter is 5 and can bare about 75 minutes of trick or treating in the chaos and cold until she’s completely wiped. This was the best picture I could get of the madness...
DipodomysDeserti
> Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle
10/31/2019 at 22:54 |
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I took my kids to NYC for Halloween a few years ago and we went to the neighborhoods on the upper west side. It was insane, and awesome.
nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
> Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle
10/31/2019 at 23:01 |
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Grew up in mid-upper middle class neighborhood and Halloween was always an event. While I never saw lines I do remember it being a constant stream of kids, usually sub 10 years old without parents (safety back then), and then massive hay ride truck with 30 kids in the back stopping at the end of the street, dumping off the kids then waiting for them at the end of the street.
Unfortunately that was... 20 years ago and the kids of the neighborhood have moved out of said neighborhood because they can't buy homes that now cost twice what they did when their parent's bought their homes there.
Roundbadge
> Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle
10/31/2019 at 23:16 |
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We had a traffic jam on our street, from parents cruising with kids sitting in the open hatch of the SUV and then jumping out to hit houses up for candy. Then there were the police trying to give them warnings and maintain order...and they eventually had to turn on lights and sirens. Mix the normal insane kids and parents milling about in the middle of the street in, and it makes for a hectic night.
This was in the steady rain, mind you.
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Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle
> DipodomysDeserti
10/31/2019 at 23:19 |
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Oh my god! That’s insane!
Chariotoflove
> Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle
10/31/2019 at 23:31 |
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Wow. Impressive and cool. Our turnout was low this year. Kids aging out in the neighborhood and the unseasonable cold I guess.
farscythe - makin da cawfee!
> Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle
11/01/2019 at 00:22 |
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man...most ive ever got was about 40 (well..the dutch version of trick or treaters wich is next month)..that was back when i lived in the sticks tho...mostly unsupervised kids tho hitting up all the houses in the village then peddling off to hit up the next village.... it being the sticks most houses hand out full size candybars to any who make the effort...sometimes money too...lol...those kids were motivated
since moving into the seedier parts of town i rarely get more than 10...usually with as many parents hanging back nearby
Under_Score
> Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle
11/01/2019 at 08:08 |
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It’s all fun and games until you live on a side street that’s up a hill, in a 500+ home neighborhood.