Of all the autocratic pricks!

[Trip]

Originally Posted by azoomm

When we turn off our light - we would yell with the door closed when people that still ring the bell. "Lights are off, we're not playing"

yeah lights off doesnt work. I had every light off in the house and it look completely empty from the street and the fuckers would still ring it.


If it's a gated community, I wouldn't expect kids to trick or treat and would agree with the note. You live in a gated community to have privacy and security. Trick or treating invites people from outside the community to come in.

[Homeslice]

People still trick or treat in America? Seems like most people don't even know their neighbors names these days. They just pull into their garage and shut themselves in for the entire night. Not to mention most neighborhoods don't even have sidewalks these days, because they are a "new sprawl" development that wasn't designed for that.

[azoomm]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

People still trick or treat in America? Seems like most people don't even know their neighbors names these days. They just pull into their garage and shut themselves in for the entire night. Not to mention most neighborhoods don't even have sidewalks these days, because they are a "new sprawl" development that wasn't designed for that.

Most in America want to feel like they are in a small town, therefore behave how they think people in small towns would behave [a la picket fences]. It's like weekend warrior riders behaving like outlaws because they THINK actual riders behave that way.

They don't have sidewalks in SF? That's weird.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by KSGregman

You'd better stop making sense....don't you know we (and apparently our neighbors in the GWN) live in a hyper sensitive, it's all about ME society? You start taking away people's reasons for flying off the fucking handle into intolerable levels of being offended and there will be problems.

I'm with you....don't want to participate? Leave the porch light off....put a sign on your door. Easy...why try to force your desire not to participate on everyone else?!

Actually WE don't need to put up any signs. Lights off and no decorations? The kids just pass right on by. As far as I can tell this isn't about anyone complaining. It's about a company thinking that it can dictate social policy.

[KSGregman]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

As far as I can tell this isn't about anyone complaining. It's about a company thinking that it can dictate social policy.

I don't disagree with you at all....that is exactly the point I am making. I don't understand why the company feels like they must get involved in making a decision that affects the entire community rather than allowing the individuals living in that community to make a decision for themselves as to whether or not they will participate in trick or treating.

[VatorMan]

Originally Posted by azoomm

That's more dumb than issuing the demand letter.

When I lived in a condo - they gave out magnets that could be stuck to the outside of your metal front door. These said "not participating" for people that didn't want to open the door for trick-or-treaters.

That way, kids can go trick-or-treating and people that don't want to play aren't bothered.

At least they can egg your house from the street without having to check for candy first.

[Homeslice]

Originally Posted by azoomm

Most in America want to feel like they are in a small town, therefore behave how they think people in small towns would behave [a la picket fences]. It's like weekend warrior riders behaving like outlaws because they THINK actual riders behave that way.

They don't have sidewalks in SF? That's weird.

Yeah, in the city there's sidewalks..........I'm talking about suburbs though. Seems like most suburbs these days (all over the country) don't have sidewalks anymore. I am talking about the newer suburbs/developments that were created in the last 20 years.

[Particle Man]

Piss in their mailbox.

[Trip]

My neighborhood has sidewalks and it's only 5 years old. Where I grew up, it didn't have sidewalks. Seems like there was a time gap that some subdivisions didn't get em, but they are becoming more common again around here. I think people realized it sucked without them.

[derf]

Originally Posted by Trip

My neighborhood has sidewalks and it's only 5 years old. Where I grew up, it didn't have sidewalks. Seems like there was a time gap that some subdivisions didn't get em, but they are becoming more common again around here. I think people realized it sucked without them.

Agreed, there was a huge gap in the popularity of sidewalks, but ive def seen them more and more in new developments