This is exactly it though, flight attendants will tell you, the worst customers are the ones in business class on a flight that also has first class.

I live in a lower-middle class neighborhood that is bordered by much poorer areas and every year at Halloween, those poorer, mostly black families come through to trick-or-treat. Sure, a lot of them don't have costumes. But maybe they can't afford them or don't have parents that care enough to help them out. Sure, a…

This woman is a twat. Lots of kids are bused into my neighborhood on Halloween night from the nearby poor/high crime areas. I don't think they're necessarily doing it for the candy, because we have our own share of cheap rich twats who pass out sub-par candy or no candy at all. I think it's more about safety. The kids…

Celtic Studies nerd here... actually Hallowe'en has traditionally been a time of giving bread or treats to the less fortunate. In medieval Britain and Ireland, the poor would go souling, which is going house to house and offering songs or prayers for the dead of the household in exchange for food, or guising, where…

Well I'm glad someone finally recognized Halloween for what it is, yet another socialist reuse concocted to trick hard working rich people in to helping the less fortunate. I've been onto that scam for years which is why instead of handing out candy I hand out pamphlets carefully explaining to the children that they…

I used to trick-or-treat with a friend who lived in a neighborhood like the one the Active Bitchface letter-writer describes. We'd start in her neighborhood, but almost always make our way over to the poor neighborhood before long, because they, invariably, gave better candy. Once I was a bit older, I felt SUPER…

Well, there's just a certain look about these inner-city youths. A dark shadow cast by the welfare state. Kids from the suburbs, raised in a culture of hard work and not shiftlessness, away from the violence caused by super predators and crack babies, have a certain light about them, you know?

"They are all a little more 'tan' than the kids that live in my fancy pants neighborhood"

This was what I was thinking when I first read this. Did it ever occur to this idiot that those kids come to the nice neighbourhood because it's maybe fucking dangerous to trick or treat in their own? No, probably not, because priviledge.

I live in a rich neighborhood and I have heard my neighbors complain about this as well. "They drive up from the ghetto in their horrid cars, half of which break down and have to be towed away. They take over and scare our polite neighborhood children away from trick or treating." This is a direct qoute from a lady…

I live kind of, across the way from a really nice neighborhood. Like, an NFL player lives nearby. My house is more in the "new owner" kind of size, but there are some fucking awesome houses. It's got the same kind of deal: every Halloween, buckets of kids come in from everywhere to go trick or treating. And you know…

clearly not from this neighborhood

But it just bugs me, because we already pay more than enough taxes toward actual social services.

This is not just a "rich people" issue. I know plenty of middle class people in safe neighborhoods that get super pissed when carloads of kids from poorer areas get dropped off. Frankly I never understood the big deal. More kids means less candy for me to deal with later. Besides, if *I* lived in a less than safe…

I read this yesterday, and I do not understand this person on any level. Buy candy and hand it out. If you run out of candy, turn your light off. The end.

My son is also on the spectrum and with some members of my family is like a little monkey, you can't get him off and others he just avoids. I don't force him either way and if your feelings get hurt, well #sorrynotsorry. I'm not going to force my 6 year old and then have to deal with the aftermath of screaming and…

I come from an ethnic family, with lots of enforced touching, lots of enforced kissing of older people, lots of enforced kisses, and that's why I didn't object when my neighbor, and, on a separate occasion, his son,put their hands all over my private areas before I was even five. All because I was taught I'm supposed…

Her daughter isn't avoiding touch. Her daughter is touching on her terms. That sounds healthy to me.

I love this, and that you're doing this for your daughter. The idea that little kids aren't people who have just as much right to refuse physical affection as anyone else is kind of mind-boggling to me. Can you imagine someone telling you as a full grown adult "Hug this person that you just met!" Ick.

Yeah, I felt like kind of a dick for thinking it, but aren't moms who work all those things too? Just because you have/want to work doesn't mean you don't have a home life to take care of (just that you have less time to do it all). I live in a very expensive area so for the most part, being a SAHM is a privilege that…