Kelly Ripa Remembers Her Children’s Hilarious Reaction To Trick-Or-Treating For The First Time Outside Of New York: “‘Can We Talk To These People?’”

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos took a brief trip down memory lane on this morning’s Live with Kelly and Mark, and recalled how their children’s New York state of mind hilariously warped their perception of trick-or-treating.

It all started when Ripa brought up findings suggesting that “if you greet your neighbors, it’s better for your health.” However, Consuelos highlighted that these kinds of interactions may be awkward and uncommon, particularly in New York City.

“In New York City, though, if you live in a high-rise, especially when I first moved to the city, if you were opening your door and you heard somebody in the hallway, you would wait,” he noted.

Ripa echoed, “Oh, you would do anything to not see that neighbor.”

Consuelos continued, “Because it’s weird. It’s just bizarre… Especially all rentals. It’s always very transient.”

Later in the chat, Ripa noted that those who live in the city “know how weird it is” around Halloween.

“During Halloween trick-or-treating, people don’t want to be bothered by trick-or-treaters in their building, but they still want to ‘participate,'” she explained. “So, what you do is you have a sign-up sheet in your building, and if you’re going to participate in trick-or-treating, you just put your apartment number.”

Using the example of apartment number “14G,” she clarified that signing up “doesn’t mean you want trick-or-treaters knocking.”

“So 14G means you’re going to put a bowl of candy outside your door, take a candy, and leave us alone, is what that means,” she quipped.

This prompted Ripa to recall, “The first time our kids, do you remember we took the trick-or-treating in North Carolina? It was your dad’s birthday?”

Consuelos noted that it was “in a neighborhood,” as Ripa teased that their kids “did not understand what was happening.”

“And I said, ‘You just walk down that driveway to the door.’ And they’re like, ‘Front door of a stranger’s house? That’s dangerous,'” she shared. “And then people would open the door and ask them what they were, and they were looking at me like, ‘These are people we don’t know. Can we talk to these people?'”

Nonetheless, Consuelos conceded that “it’s a very New York thing,” prompting him to mention interactions with the doorman at his gym.

“I work out downstairs, and I pass by him every day for the past six or seven years,” he said. “And every day, he looks down when I walk in.”

Ripa chimed in, “Yeah, of course, because you guys don’t want to talk to each other.”

Consuelos continued, “But he’s an older gentleman, so I think out of respect, I say, ‘Hey, good morning, good day, hello.’ And then it hit me. He doesn’t want to talk to me.”

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