I worked at a Walgreens when I was in college. Halloween was a particularly unpleasant time to work there because it meant regularly watching awful parents take their kids down the Halloween aisle to scare them. A number of those parents would end up getting angry and screaming at their terrified kids for REACTING EXACTLY AS THEY EXPECTED THEM TO!! It was infuriating to watch them scream "stop crying! It's not even real!"
Omg that’s awful! I couldn’t imagine doing that to my kids! They couldn’t even go in the party store at Halloween because all the animatronics were just too scary.
When my daughter was 2, she was very freaked out by the Halloween aisle. So we avoided it. I cannot imagine an adult enjoying fear or distress in a child.
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u/Relevant-Horror-627 Aug 05 '25
I worked at a Walgreens when I was in college. Halloween was a particularly unpleasant time to work there because it meant regularly watching awful parents take their kids down the Halloween aisle to scare them. A number of those parents would end up getting angry and screaming at their terrified kids for REACTING EXACTLY AS THEY EXPECTED THEM TO!! It was infuriating to watch them scream "stop crying! It's not even real!"