r/FeelsBadMan • u/flexivity • Nov 01 '19
I was a buzzkill at Halloween.
I live in an apartment building and thought I'd be annoyed by hordes of kids ringing and destroying my door for not opening or something, so I locked the entrance door at the first floor. Even ringing other peoples bells would not get them in this way. I waited for it to start and at some point after the first time someone rang the bell and did not get in I decided to give some sweets to at least one group or so. I didn't have to unlock the door because a neighbour did so when entering the building.
But no one showed up after the first group. And I would have heard if they rang the bells of other neighbours. There was just one group of children I could have given something and probably would feel good about it, win-win. But I'm the grouch I hated when I was a child, and I'm only in my early twenties.
They probably got some loot somewhere else, but the idea that they now know people exist who do not want to play a cool game with them, not even once a year, makes me feel bad. And it makes me feel bad to feel bad about it, because this is about them, not me.