"Since there are still a lot of families on the street, this year, some other concerned neighbors and I decided to plan an afternoon trunk-or-treat for the weekend before Halloween. We advertised it throughout the neighborhood and on Next Door and were thrilled to get such a positive response from other families who wanted to join! Unfortunately, I'm still processing how it actually turned out-all because of one family's behavior."
"While most of the groups participating had fully decorated trunks and were engaged with all the kids coming by, this family opted to turn it into more of a tailgate than a trunk-or-treat. While they did have a bowl of candy on a table out on the sidewalk for kids to take from, they spent most of the time ignoring the event in favor of grilling, playing music (which wasn't even Halloween themed), and having a party, which included alcohol!"
My husband Mark and I organized an afternoon trunk-or-treat the weekend before Halloween because dim streetlighting made evening trick-or-treating feel unsafe. We advertised widely and many families responded. One participating household treated the event as a tailgate, grilling, playing non-Halloween music, and drinking beer and hard seltzers in daylight while offering a bowl of candy. Mark is a lifelong teetotaler because his uncle was an alcoholic, and he found the alcohol presence triggering and left entirely. Our son Giacomo walked with a close family and seemed to enjoy himself, but the situation left me upset.
Read at Slate Magazine
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