This just makes me angry.

[ralerin]

Our Halloween section is usually filled with idiots who pull on face masks and wander around scaring their girlfriends. I noticed that a lot of parents tend to use it on their kids.

Tonight one winner dad did it on his 18 month old and even went so far as to try to pick up the kid. =/ He SCREAMED and was still hyperventilating when he saw his dad come out of the aisle, unmasked.

[Nurian]

Way to give your kid a complex, Numbnuts!

[ThirdGenRetail]

Way to possibly shock the kid to death oO I'm not the biggest kid-liking person, but I'd never do that to an 18 month old kid.

[Erin]

A friend of mine used to do that to his kids when they were little. (he has 4 kids)

I'd go visit them and he thought it was hilarious to come running into a room wearing a hockey mask, and fake knives with fake blood on them.

I think as they got older they got past that, but it kind of bothered me that I couldnt even take them with me when I was babysitting to get my car washed without the kids freaking out. He'd tell them that the monsters were going to eat the car. I didnt know this and went to get my car washed. Luckily one of the older ones said something so we got out and watched the car go thru instead. The two youngest ones were shaking in fear watching the car go thru the wash tho...even tho they werent in it.

It's sadistic. If I ever have kids I wont be doing that to them. My sister used to do similar pranks to me and I know now that I get my fear of heights and water from the crap she used to do to me when I was little.

[South Texan]

If he is like some of the stuipd DNA donors (they have not earned the title of "parent") with whom I have had to deal, this guy has no idea why his eighteen-month-old was traumatized by the mask, and cannot fathom that a child cannot think like an adult. This is all due to the fact that his own mind has not matured past thirteen and HE knew that stuff wasn't real.

He probably is frustrated that everyone did not understand how funny he was being.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Well, my father, for whom Halloween is the equivalent of Christmas, loves to scare people. So my childhood was pretty much spent with him testing the scariness of his costumes on me.

Enter my kid sister, who spent her childhood trying to jump out and scare the crap out of me.

So I had it in stereo.

I'm pretty much almost impossible to startle now.

Remember the old Pink Panter movies, with Inspector Clouseau's houseboy Cato constantly trying to jump out and attack him? So that it would make Clouseau impossible to suprise? That was my childhood.

Probably explains a lot.

[BethB]

My youngest brother is the only one who could manage to scare me into a heart attack and he doesn't have to do anything. One night the house was dark and I was headed to my room across from his, he came out of his room quietly and said "what's up". I flipped out. the second time he was leaving for the night shift at work and I went to the kitchen for a drink. I heard a thud as he dropped his shoe and jumped outta my skin. Classic stuff.

But scaring the pants off your children that young is NOT cool. I never did that to my kids. They will have enough issues without adding that to the mix. Meanies!!

[RecoveringKinkoid]

That is true. At least the Old Man waited till we were older. And able to fight back.

[El Pollo Guerrera]

I'd go visit them and he thought it was hilarious to come running into a room wearing a hockey mask, and fake knives with fake blood on them.

"BARTDOYOUWANTTOSEEMYNEWHOCKEYMASKANDCHAINSAW! "

[/Simpsons reference]

[Jay 2K Winger]

I will admit that I am known for sneaking up behind some of my female coworkers and whispering "Boo" in their ear, but only to CWs that I've come to know, and to CWs that I know aren't going to go into Attack Mode when I do it.

I wouldn't do something like that to a little kid, unless it actually WAS Halloween, and even then, only at the door to my house while handing out candy. But my way of doing the candy distribution was to dress in all black (including long sleeves and gloves), wear one of those hooded cloaks with the face-obscuring cloth, and stand on the brightly-lit front porch with the candy in front of me AND THEN NOT MOVE.

It scared quite a few people when the "statue" suddenly bent to pick up the basket of candy. It helped that I wouldn't speak, either.

The second year I did it, it was just cold enough to see your breath, so there'd be that breath vapor coming from the "empty" hood.

But yeah, scaring a toddler like that? Infinitely not cool. Sperm donor failed so badly.

[Meegz]

As much as I hate being scared, it's actually a past time of mine because it's just so hilarious. Anyone remember the Canadian made Nightmare board games that came with those cards and a time limit? My 8 year old self would never want to go to sleep but Halloween is much more fun than Christmas in the beginning of October!