For not having alternatives for trick or treaters?

[mummydoris2006]

Last night we had lots of kids trick or treating and was very busy answering the door. It was lovely to see all the different costumes and all the excited kids but at around 7pm we sat down to eat our tea so didn't want to be disturbed.

I decided to leave a bowl of mini haribo and squashems out next to the pumpkins and also inserted some lollipops into a pumpkin too. I figured that way the parents could see they were lollies and could decide if their kids were allowed them and also the younger kiddies had already been earlier on in the night.

Around 7.30pm there was a knock on the door and I answered to find a woman and her son stood on the doorstep. She said she knocked to tell me the bowl was empty! I was a bit taken aback and thanked her for letting me know and said her son was welcome to help himself to a lolly instead, it was at that point she said he wasn't really allowed lollies so she'd knocked for an alternative!!!!!

I explained there was no alternatives if the bowl was empty, and she stomped off in a huff. Even though my DC is too old to trick or treat we still put out pumpkins and welcome trick or treaters but surely, we're now not expected to have a never-ending supply of sweets!?!

Don't be silly, it's an Americanism. Lots of children say candy when they mean sweets because of American TV programmes.

Hun language indeed. How snobby are you!.

I am reading in amazement that some people are saying lollies are choking hazards and implying that they shouldn’t be offered. Don’t take, don’t let your toddler snatch-aren’t you keeping hold of their hands? H&S at its best! There are no doubt older kids who’d like a lolly!

Sweet is generic candy is a TYPE of sweet.

You never had candy canes, candy rock, candy sticks???

All perfectly common and British

Are you seriously asking whether you were BU for not catering to specific requirements of a random candy beggar, or is it just worded that way?

I never leave the bowl out, just answer the door. Otherwise one greedy kid will just take all the sweets. I thought they'd knocked to ask for apples or something! (I did have fruit as an option one year!)

My mum once witnessed a young boy choke after his lolly came off the stick and slipped down his throat. They weren't able to save him.

I also hate seeing kids with lollies in the mouths while their walking or running, and not holding on to the stick. If they trip it could go straight down their throat

Just point out we’re not in America next year.

I'm in my 70's but Halloween is a bit of a tradition in our village - we even have a dalek. I share a path with my little neighbours so there's lots of comings and goings. The dcs were really pumped up yesterday as it had been an inset day. There's a strict rule here that you don't knock on doors where there's no pumpkins.

There were no pumpkins outside this curmudgeon's front door!

The child shouldn’t bother going trick or treating if he is so fussy/not allowed things. Really sick of all the entitlement around T or T! Who cares FFS?!

One poster commented lollies weren't suitable for her toddler. Another asked why. Queue replies explaining why.

Simple explanation if you read the thread, no insinuating

I would have laughed and shut the door

'Hold on then' .....goes the fridge...hands over a lump of cheese....'here you go, night!'

🤣

Mmmm, cheese.

Rude, entitled woman. You handled it brilliantly.

Someone I knew gave each child one segment of a tangerine only, I couldn’t believe it!! If that’s not mean what is?🤪

😂

We had some oddballs like this this year too! One kid asked for money and another grabbed half a tub of chocolates for themselves while their mum stood behind them dead-pan and held her hands out. Err ok then 😵‍💫😆

Oh we did scary-faced satsumas! Like mini pumpkins 🎃

Wow how rude! I took my youngest son and his friend round the local village and when we found houses that were decorated or had a pumpkin lit but the bowl left out was empty we just said "never mind" and went on our merry way! We did knock at one house that was both decorated with window stickers and had several pumpkins out, and the last who answered seemed bemused by us knocking and saying trick or treat. She said "oh I don't give out sweets, that's what the bowl is for outside" and I immediately said sorry for disturbing her, but we didn't realise as there wasn't a bowl - it transpired that her bowl had been taken (along with the sweeties)!! And we live in a very posh and isolated area, so I wouldn't have thought there were any bowl-thieves about, but somebody is hiding a dark bowl-snatching habit I presume 🤣

Same here ^

Well of course, and you should also have had vegan jelly sweets, dairy free chocolate, gluten free wafers and sugar free sweets 😂 She sounds like someone who has lost the plot with her pfb!

It was always apples and monkey nuts when I was a child (long ago). Made up if you got a sweety instead.

I did that this year because I didn't want kids knocking on the door and making the dog bark. I heard several different groups talking on the path bit they were very good about taking a few each (I kept looking out of the window to check) and nobody knocked.

I have had the same here. Left a bowl of sweets and when I heard the doorbell, found out it was because the bowl had been emptied!! Not quite sure what my response was meant to be!