Halloween

[Pyrrho]

Telling children or anyone who has the audacity to walk up my drive to fuck off.

And by that I mean ignoring the doorbell till they go away, because I'm British and we view interaction with strangers to be strange and uncomfortable. ^_^

I've heard that in recent years the British have begun adopting the American trick-or-treat thing.

People don't trick or treat in my complex so I don't even bother to buy stuff if they come to the door, which is good because I'd just end up buying Reese's peanut butter cups and eating them all myself...

That is a terrible thing to copy us on.  And rather ironically, it is fading in the U.S. from what it used to be when I was a child, which was a faded version of what it was when my mother was a child.  A smaller percentage of people do it now, and the age of people doing it is dropping (that is, the older children no longer do it).  When my mother was a child, the "trick" part was still in full play.  Now it is typically just begging (so it should now be called "treat" without the trick part), but many years ago, it was a threat:  give me a treat or I will play a trick on you.  And the tricks were not things you wanted happening.  For example, they might overturn your outhouse if you gave them nothing.  Or some other thing that you did not want them to do.  Typically, some act of vandalism, though it may also involve theft.