Poll: So you're trick-or-treating and...morality!

[Dags90]

Ok, so not everybody trick-or-treats like us Americans. I know, you're European or whatever. You don't have to rub it in everyone's face all the time, Hans.

So you're trick-or-treating by yourself as an appropriate aged version of yourself. Lets say you're 10 and your parents can't really see you from the heated SUV driving you from neighborhood to neighborhood. You come across a house (and for my non-American viewers, this does actually happen) with a bowl of candy and a note asking you to "Please take one."

What do you do? Take all of it? No one will notice, and it's just candy. Take a fistful? It's not your fault they didn't specify the units "one" is supposed to represent.[footnote]My eighth grade Algebra teacher was quite the stickler for properly labeled units.[/footnote] Someone else will probably take all the candy after you anyway.

Bonus question: What are you dressed as? Remember, you're 10, so you can't be things that didn't exist then.

My brother and I would go the fistful route. We obviously couldn't each take all of the candy, and trying to split it evenly in half would just be annoying. Plus there are invariably going to be a lot of candies you don't like. So we would take about a fistful of the candies we wanted. I was an alien for Halloween when I was 10.

 

[Queen Michael]

I'd take one, of course.

 

[Lionsfan]

I normally took a few bars of whatever I liked, maybe a handful

And when I was younger I once dressed up as a robot. Had a robot suit made out of a Cardboard box.

It was actually pretty cool, but a ***** to move in, when I fell over (and I did fall over trying to keep up with my friends), I couldn't get up on my own

 

[Dags90]

I'd take one, of course.

Did you miss my comment about not identifying units? One what, exactly? One bologna sandwich? One fistful? A Jupiter mass?

 

[Rawne1980]

We didn't get candy here (northwest UK) we got cash.

Trick or Treating used to net 10 year old me about £15.

But in the spirit of your story, 10 year old me would have taken the lot. 10 year old me was a little shit.

He would be dressed as "what the fuck is that" man. My sister did my costumes for halloween (she was 19 when I was 10) and she was bloody clueless. Ended up covered in bandages, fake blood and a purple wig.

To this day no one knew what the fuck it was supposed to be.

 

[NightmareWarden]

Take a small handful. I've seen people leave a bowel of candy on a chair on the lawn on the lap of a costume. Someone tries to grab the whole bowel? SURPRISE, the costume was really an adult who just scared the crap out of you. May come with squirt guns. If I were to do this, I'd use silly string.

 

[Bagged Milk]

I remember this happened a couple of times to me. My parents encouraged me to take it all. When they were kids, they'd work the system to get as much candy as physically possible. Although the first time it happened, I only took one. This was before I realized that no one really cared.

 

[Qwurty2.0]

Oh no, morality, my arch nemesis! D:<

I don't know, I guess it would depend on the kind of candies in it, and even then I doubt I would take more than 3 or 4.

Btw, did you make this thread after watching that commercial?

 

[Syphous]

One piece. Because I am not a dick and realize there are other kids who will want some candy.

 

[Dags90]

To this day no one knew what the fuck it was supposed to be.

Uhh?...Twisted Sister? Yeah, you're someone from Twisted Sister.

Btw, did you make this thread after watching that commercial? If you know which commercial I am talking about then I will assume you did. :3

What commercial? Please, share it with the class.

 

[Dawns Gate]

I would take one bowl full of candy. Storm Shadow don't play no shit.

 

[Luna]

I would take 3.


At least that's what I think I would do. Without purposely trying to put myself in a better light at all, (honest to gawd), 3.

 

[DugMachine]

see if I can swipe two. Maybe a handful if they're not really paying attention. Usually went with one though

 

[C F]

Yoink!
Now, I'm not going to take more than what I judge to be a fair share (i.e. whatver I can fit in the clutches of a few fingers). Got to leave some for the other kids.
But you wanted me to only take one? Should've been out here giving it in person, otherwise it seems like a classic case of you just don't care enough. Besides, whenever people answer the door themselves, they seem to always fork out a bit more than I expect them to anyway. If they care more than you and are still giving hearty fistfuls, then do you honestly expect me to listen to your say?
Might as well not put out candy at all, Scrooge.


Oddly enough, I find that if they specify "only one", I'll take only one.
It's kind of uncanny how much difference a bit of clarification can make. But "Please take one" seems more like an open invitation than a specific limit.

Heck if I can remember what I went as when I was 10.

 

[ultrachicken]

My trick-or-treating strategy was to visit the houses directly adjacent to the most popular street (where everyone gave out one piece of candy because of the number of children). The nearby houses always seemed to expect more overflow than they actually got, so if you visited them late in the night, they would often give obscene amounts of candy in an effort to get rid of it all. Therefore, if someone put up the "take one" sign, then it was easy not to violate morality because there was plenty of loot to be had elsewhere.

When I was 10, I intended to dress as a zombie, but then the top half of my costume was ruined and I instead went as "half dead."

 

[Qwurty2.0]

To this day no one knew what the fuck it was supposed to be.

Uhh?...Twisted Sister? Yeah, you're someone from Twisted Sister.

Btw, did you make this thread after watching that commercial? If you know which commercial I am talking about then I will assume you did. :3

What commercial? Please, share it with the class.

I can't seem to find it on YouTube, it's just some candy commercial with a guy saying he will only take one piece of candy, then go down the street and come take another one, etc.

But never mind.

 

[manic_depressive13]

I wouldn't go as far as to take a fistful, but I'd probably take two or three if they were the kind I like.

 

[burningdragoon]

The houses in my neighborhood that left unattended "take one" bowls tended to not actually have treats worth taking many of anyway (at least when I was younger).

 

[Crazy]

My sights won't be fixed in the treats, but the tricksters and the treaters themselves.