Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
I might have done it in 1970. Extracting favours with menaces probably isn't the best behavioural guide for youngsters tbh, unless one is expecting them to persue a career in extortion.
Nor really is being encouraged to round a strangers house in fancy dress asking for sweets.

I opened the door to kids last year and upon being shouted at I requested the trick element, to which there was silence and not an inconsiderable amount of puzzlement either. In the end they just took treats and bid me farewell.