“Am I A Jerk For Giving Movie Vouchers For Halloween?”: Parent’s Creative Plan Backfires When Other Parents Get Greedy
Every holiday has its own traditions, but that doesn’t mean we’re not allowed to break them. Many people love celebrating Halloween with the classic itinerary: dressing up in costume, carving pumpkins, trick-or-treating or throwing a party, visiting a pumpkin patch or corn maze, telling spooky stories and indulging in all of your favorite sweet treats. But if you would rather paint pumpkins than carve them, spend the day running a marathon through a cemetery or pass out treats that are of the non-edible variety, there is nothing wrong with that! Or rather, there shouldn’t be anything wrong with that… One parent recently got the brilliant idea to pass out movie vouchers to their son’s class, in lieu of Halloween candy, but this plan unfortunately backfired after a few mothers decided to throw a fit. Below, you can read the full story that the parent shared on the “Am I The [Jerk]?” subreddit , as well as some of the replies readers have left weighing in on whether or not this was a w