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Yeah really! Way to spoil the fun with tooth care!

I do not think it ruins the fun that much. But it is totally inappropriate.

That was probably a dentist's house. I wouldn't mind advertising as long as it's attached to candy.

I don't mind a little public relations either as long as they don't totaly ruin the fun. A lot of stores and other business hand out TOT candy. But flyers advertising car dealerships? Tooth brushes? Key rings with logos on them? Give me a break! At least toss in a snickers bar or a bit sized reses peanut butter cup in with it.

Mike

Rising Dead Man wrote:Sheesh there are some real morons out there! A big year old popcorn ball! How pathetic is that?!?!?

ew and I love popcorn balls.

I love pop corn balls, too, and my sister-inlaw makes the best I've ever eaten. However there's NOTHING worse then a sale pop corn ball.

My major 'pet peve' is when some one uses 'trick or treat' to preach his philosophy or sell products. Like I said, I don't have any problems with a little public relations as long as you don't spoil anyone's fun, but I think it's totaly assinine to give a 10-year-ole kid an aotomobile dealorship advertising flyer in his ToT bag. How many 10-year-olds do you know drive cars? Also, it's all fine and good if a dentist wants to promote good oral hygene, but does he have to use ToT to preach that sermon? Okay, if a dentist feels like he's betraying his occupation as a oral health care professional by handing out candy, then hand out little toys, or something that's fun.

Mike

It would behoove the dentist's business to hand out the most sugarfull treats out there. Maybe a 5 lb. bag of sugar, a spoon and a coupon to his practice.

That's one way to look at it, Rky. That would drum up a lot of business for the dentist and the diabetes specialists, too.

Maybe the car dealer could give out 'match box' cars as treats. Models that he's selling, along with his flyer.

Mike

I'll admit it, I am the daughter of a dentist and hand out toothbrushes on Halloween, but candy too. The kids around me must be what i call Pod-kids, since they walk down the driveway going " whoohoo i got a toothbrush yay"

Only one kid so far, in like i guess five or so years, has been normal and said "let's not go there, they give out toothbrushes."

when i had been tot I would have been like EWWW.

My worst thing i ever got was a religious cartoon thing that when i got home and showed my parents, they threw it away.

One year i got an apple, from an old man. A few years later i got a condom ( i was 16) and an off bran bag of non salted chips.

The worst thing I got this year was a pencil from a lady who didn't speak at all. Rude and annoying.

I also went to this Jewish (he had Hebrew on his door) old dude's house at around 9:40 and he said "It's way too late, and the lights are off," when in fact, the lights were on behind thin curtains visible for everyone. I think I interrupted his happy time with his wife.

I went to a retired dentists house and he gave out Halloween themed Kit-Kat bars. So not all dentists give out toothbrushes.

A lot of dentists feel that giving out candy promots tooth decay, which is why they give oub items other then candy, but I still can't help that it's a bit nerdy and preachy to give out tooth brushes, though I think what Gypsiewitch and that retired dentist did was pretty cool. Handing out toothbrushes and something fun is a good way of not being nerdy or preachy.

Mike