Local subreddit is full of posts from people wondering where the kids were last night. Sounds like a combination of overall t'r't patterns changing (some neighborhoods got less popular, others got more popular) and increasing popularity of "trick and trunk" where people gather in a parking lot and kids go from car-to-car rather than house-to-house.
@BennyTheIcepick Yes, it's a regular costume, her face is just under the knot in the tie, and the shirt is see-through (though hard to see anything in dim light).
@ardgedee One of the early groups last night said it was really busy a block or two over from us. I'm not sure why our block is so lame, but it's been weaksauce for years.
We're in a very busy trick-or-treat area in Toronto. We had about 240 kids come by, which is down probably 10-15% from last year. (At one point a group of pre-teens spotted the counter app on my phone, which just happened to be at 67, and I was assaulted with delighted screams of "six seven!")
It was really cold and windy this year though, and the crowds disappeared pretty quickly once game 6 of the World Series began.
We get next to zero ToT traffic on our (dark, unlit, gravel) road. :( There is a big community ToT downtown where they close off main street for several blocks, and kids can ToT at the local businesses. It's a lot of fun :)
We had over 50 kids show up at our house. For our first Halloween in a little farm community (~1300 people) we were pleasantly surprised. That's about double what we got in our last house, and there are over 20k people there.
@Argie It always seemed kind of not-great to me too, until I saw somebody point out that when you have a toddler who wants to run around and show off but hasn't developed the endurance for a proper trick-or-treat hike yet, having the kid dress up and parade around a parking lot collecting snacks for 15-20 minutes is a much better experience for everyone concerned.
Was she actually hiding in there?
@ardgedee One of the early groups last night said it was really busy a block or two over from us. I'm not sure why our block is so lame, but it's been weaksauce for years.
TWO trick or treaters here. TWO.
We rarely get many but this was a record low.
Apparently we were supposed to have marked our house as a “treat house” in NextDoor? I thought that’s what the jack o’lantern is for.
We're in a very busy trick-or-treat area in Toronto. We had about 240 kids come by, which is down probably 10-15% from last year. (At one point a group of pre-teens spotted the counter app on my phone, which just happened to be at 67, and I was assaulted with delighted screams of "six seven!")
It was really cold and windy this year though, and the crowds disappeared pretty quickly once game 6 of the World Series began.
how have we become this? (rhetorical)