Dystopian
A bunch of cars in a parking lot lined up is so lame, poor kids.
as someone who grew up a shitty neighborhood: these are godsends for halloween. very few people can afford to give away candy in shitty neigborhoods so we always did halloween by traveling through affluent neighborhoods growing up.
fast forward another 2 decades and my nephews/nieces grew up doing it in parking lots and convention halls; removing the need for hundreds of cars to slowly, wastefully, and dangerously escort trick-or-treaters with thousands of oblivious sugar spiked children walking around in view-obstructing costumes.
minivans can do permanent life-altering damage to an 6 year old even if it’s only creeping along at 5 miles per hour; ask me how i know.
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.
It’s just helicopter parents and stranger danger manifest. Sad, really.
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.
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.
This started from churches
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.
Slightly off topic but what in the All-American fuck is the "Junior Enlisted Association?
I looked it up, seems like some kind of fundraising club for low-ranking enlisted soldiers.
