seriously what the fuck happened to halloween, when i was a kid we would be out there until 11-midnight, and there'd be hundreds of other people out, and all the old people had to worry about getting fucked with if they didn't participate
Child predators!
Saw a good amount of the young people on the way to my class at 6:30ish. Guess Halloween curfew is 7:30-8pm increasing by age and apparently strictly enforced. Saw nobody in the apartment complex, we had them a few years ago back when we also had the peeping tom volleyball/soccer coach whatever he was.
That said, every group I saw where the kids were not at least "tweens" were basically six moms/older girls/sisters to three kids under ten.
Waiting at a light there was this young boy dressed as spider-man and he totally hated having the mask down and his mom/whatever kept pushing it down over his face, it was basically a colored ski-mask thing so I assume she was trying to keep his face warm, but he was definitely not pleased about any of it.
When I was pre-teen, my church started doing this bullshit where you go to church and read scripture and crap and do "fun and games" in an effort to quell the innocent children from the harmful satanic holiday we know as Halloween.
Oh god, I had friends/etc. who had to do this. Half of them became drug addicts, the other half were perfect Christians until college when they got pregnant and became drug addicts. Of course, it's only a sample size of six.
To be fair, like three of the kids went through divorces and the parents decided the church would solve their strange and unexpected acting out despite the fact that bitch/asshole was gone.
Also, when did "slutty" become the popular look for 10 year old girls?
This was every single "tween" I saw tonight. Males dressed in like trenchcoats and crap, really not even "real" costumes, all the girls in short skirts (or something similar) and freezing. (Was like 40 F or something out at 6, got colder later.) One of my criteria has always been asking the slutty devil/cat/nurse/cowgirl if she brought a coat.
It shows foresight!