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Did anyone ever try to scare you on Halloween when you were a kid? I remember one time in particular when I was roughly 8 my brother and I rang

a neighbor's doorbell and instantly the man ran down the hall toward us hollering very loud wearing a hideous mask. He opened the door and lunged at us scaring the crap out of us. We ran back to Dad crying and hysterical. Dad was talking to a man who was also taking his kids trick or treating. Neither of them really saw what the man did. (There were other kids on the porch with us). A woman appeared at the door saying, "did we scare y'all? I told him not to do that." People sometimes tried to scare kids on Halloween when I was growing up. Now if someone did that they'd probably go to jail. Totally different generation
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
No.... but as far as I recall, this was all unknown when I was a child (not "kid" - I am not a goat).

The nonsense invented by American supermarkets as "Hallowe'en" had not yet drifted across the Atlantic like plastic goods from a foundered shipping-container.

(It is a commercial prostitution of a mixture of Scots children's tradition that involved lanterns carved from turnips - not pumpkins then - and an ancient English church, memorial event possibly based on earlier pagan ideas. Nothing to do with fairy-story 'witches', aeronautical bedsheets going "Wooooo!", and plastic bats and spiders.)
Cloud7593 · 46-50, F
@ArishMell 😆Halloween is just meant to be fun.