Escapists, what are your thoughts on people that drive their kids from house to house?

[Griphphin]

There's nothing I enjoyed more as a child than skipping from house to house and eventually forcing my parents to carry my all-too-heavy bucket of diabeetus. Driving from house to house just kills the fun of it.

Exactly my experience, except I'm a guy so I didn't skip(much).
Being driven just makes it more of a car ride with some candy than "Oooh, let's hit that bunch of houses up in Brookview, they give a lot of candy so it's worth the walk!" You may as well have gone to Walmart and picked up a few bags of candy.
I don't know, I felt like I'd earned my bounty when I got home, I went and got the candy instead of having it given to me if you know what I mean.

 

[SomethingUnrelated]

There's nothing I enjoyed more as a child than skipping from house to house and eventually forcing my parents to carry my all-too-heavy bucket of diabeetus. Driving from house to house just kills the fun of it.

Seconded. I really don't get the attraction.

Congratulations, you don't see the attraction of a holiday aimed at children.

What shall be your next amazing feat? Not understanding why babies just don't tell you why they cry?

I think you'll find that Hallowe'en is actually a Celtic festival to celebrate the ending of the summer time. At least, it was...

 

[Griphphin]

Rethinking it, if you live far enough up north I can see why you'd take the car (the farthest north I've lived was Maryland). I'm pretty sure some parts of the midwest already have snowfall. But then, if it's weather conditions that are stopping you, it's probably not worth getting a few pieces of candy per block if it's that much of a hassle.

 

[Empireth]

You're American?
Wow. I didn't know it was also there too.

I've seen a few kids from year to year get driven around the neighbourhood, which is plain stupid because the houses are twenty feet away from each other at most.
They are a part of my list of people I want to slap. (The list generally is meant to slap sense into people, though sometimes, it's just people I feel like slapping. These people are of the former.)

But really, there's only ever like one or two kids like that, so it's not that big of a deal here.
I just glare at them and their parents waiting for them from behind the wheel.

Edit:

Rethinking it, if you live far enough up north I can see why you'd take the car (the farthest north I've lived was Maryland). I'm pretty sure some parts of the midwest already have snowfall. But then, if it's weather conditions that are stopping you, it's probably not worth getting a few pieces of candy per block if it's that much of a hassle.

Dude, I live in Canada. If people are pansy enough to think they need a car to go trick-or-treating, then they might as well stay home.
We also had snow last year, and that didn't stop many people from coming out.
Mind you, I also wasn't home, so I didn't get to see the amount of people getting driven, though I doubt it added much of an increase to that, either.

 

[appleblush]

Man, that's not even smart. All that money they're spending on gas they would've just spent on buying the candy and then their lazy asses wouldn't even have to leave the house.

On the bright side, it gives me many ample opportunities to jack their car.

 

[TheFacelessOne]

That's stupid. Just plain lazy.

I only use the car to go the my friend's houses.

On the other side of my town.

 

[Padfoot13]

when i was a kid we walked, but we had very few people in our neighborhood so we would drive a little bit and go to friend's neighborhoods. i agree though, if you live in a suburb and your only going a few yards from house to house, JUST WALK! I mean jesus are we THAT lazy? maybe its not us, maybe its the kids. Are the kids the ones complaining about walking, or is this another case of helicopter parenting? making sure nothing unsafe or new or remotely foreign happens to their "little angels"

 

[thepj]

Trick or treating is stupid in my opinion.

oh come on! do what i got back from doing not ten minutes ago and go with some mates dressed as characters from tf2, i swear there is nothing funnier that putting on my scout voice and (cause i live in england) watching the weird looks people give me when we refuse to leave or stop jabbering until they fork over the goods, it's awesome!

 

[jboking]

Trick or treating is stupid in my opinion.

...Do you have something against candy?

If the kid finished off his neighborhood with his parents, then driving to the next neighborhood over seems fine. However, driving them from block to block is bullshit. You don't have to do a lot for the candy you are getting, at least walk to my house so I know you are healthy enough to have candy. If I could check it, I wouldn't give candy to kids that drove up to my house unless they were under the age of five.

 

[chaos13]

I live in canada and where i live we always have snow on halloween and that stoped none of the kids from going out. The only kids in cars on halloween were the ones being driven in to the town from the outskirts where there are 2 acre long drive ways. I think that kids being driven from house to house is lazy and I blame bad parenting. The parents should walk with there children while trick-or-treating and if they are worried about poison candy then they should not let there kids eat any of it till it has been checked, and if they are worried about people attacking them while they are walking then they should move to a diffrent place where there are not thugs walking in the street.

 

[dududf]

I like stupid stuff like that, it helps feed the stereo type fire. =]

Silly Americans.. how hypocrital you all are *snurf snurf snurf snurf*

Look away, you saw nothing!
*MenInBlack-style memory erasing light-flash*

AAAACK!! THAT'S NOT A MEMORY ERASER IT'S YOUR POCKET LAZER!!!

*Dies...Horribly*

 

[maddawg IAJI]

If it's to diffrent homes a couple blocks away at night in an urban area, then go right ahead.

But the whole driving from house to house on the same street thing seems kinda silly.

 

[Cakes]

Trick or treating is stupid in my opinion.

Seconded. I really don't get the attraction.

Hey, uh...you do realize Trick or Treating is aimed at young children, right?

 

[Space Spoons]

Seems a little excessive to me, but I guess we should be glad kids are still allowed to trick or treat at all. They may not be getting around the way we used to when we were kids, but at least the tradition is still sort of alive.

 

[Cakes]

Dude, I live in Canada. If people are pansy enough to think they need a car to go trick-or-treating, then they might as well stay home.
We also had snow last year, and that didn't stop many people from coming out.
Mind you, I also wasn't home, so I didn't get to see the amount of people getting driven, though I doubt it added much of an increase to that, either.

Oh man, I remember having to build my Halloween costumes to fit around a snow suit. Parents would take their kids trick-or-treating on sleds...it was the most stereotypically Canadian thing.

 

[Ganthrinor]

CONSUME, YOU MINDLESS CONSUMERS! BUY THE GAS, BUY THE CANDIES, BUY THE COSTUMES, BUY THE DECORTIONS, BUY! BUY! BUUUUUUYYY!!!!!

*cough*

Driving down a block, stopping at each house to let little monsters out to shuffle up to the door and mindlessly repeat some marketized catchphase over and over while thier eyes gleam with greed and avarice while they jostle each other and grope unceremoniously at a bowl of mass-produced poison and sugar until they are forced to turn and shamble back to the roadside where they wedge themselves back into the atmospere-controlled interior of a Maibatsu Monstrosity 9000 which has been running idle the entire time consuming limited natual resources and expelling foul toxins into the air we breathe only to roll forward a dozen or so feet to repeat the process is profoundly offending to me for some reason.

 

[Spaghetti]

I think Al Murray summed this one up nicley (It was about driving kids to school, but it works here as well, so i'll just change the words around to make it fit )

Parents drive their kids about trick-or-treating so they don't get run over...by other parents driving their kids about trick-or-treating