No Trick-or-Treating!

I had a few trick or treaters stop by tonight and I enjoyed handing out candy. I think I would have gotten more trick or treaters if my house had been decked out spookier. But who has the money for that? It isn't me. All the stuff I bought this year came from the Dollar Tree but for what it's worth they are pretty cool decorations. I have severed hands and feet hanging around in front of my house, spider webbing, a table decorated with eye balls, severed fingers/ears and a packaged heart, liver and brain sitting next to the plasma ball I got for Christmas. Also had the strobe light that I bought a couple years ago poppin' off. Next year maybe, hopefully, if I find the time, I'll find a way to make my own tomb stone's so I could turn the entire front yard into a cemetery. I bought a few of the styrofoam tombstone's from Dollar Tree but they blew away or got split in half so they aren't really worth even a damn dollar, LOL. Hopefully I get some more trick or treaters tommorrow night as well.

Happy Halloween everyone.

 

i don't know, i had swim lessons at work tonight and half the kids didn't show up because they were out trick or treating instead.

part of the problem is that every city has trick or treating during the day now. even when i was a kid, i refused to go in my hometown because daytime trick or treating was just stupid; i went at night in the next town over instead.

you can't really blame the tainted candy myths, those have been around since before i was born.

 

We had almost 300 kids at my house. Our city is weird. First of all we don't do trick or treating ON Halloween. We always do it on the 30th. Also kids have to tell a joke. There is no tricks. All kids must tell jokes. It's not my rule. The whole city does it. Actually most of the state does it but it doesn't seem like its common practice anywhere else. We had a 20 year old kid come up to our door to trick or treat. He pulled out a cigarette while he was standing there. I was like "What the fuck?" He said he was old enough to smoke and showed me his ID. When I saw he was 20 I told him to get the fuck out of my yard. Trick or treating is for kids. Not someone who should have a job and be able to buy his own damn candy. Now I hope he doesn't come back with the real hatchet he was carrying and cut me to pieces in my sleep.

 

I know right? The kids after all are walking it off anyway. Now if the mom is driving them door to door then thats a different story.

On a side note i love the phone commercial with the black family dressed up like star wars characters

 

Its somethng that seems to have increased in recent years here in Sydney, I'm like hello we are not americanos.

I stayed at home and boarded up the widows, streets were filled with crying anklebiters, truly was.scary

 

Our Halloween was cancelled until Saturday due to the weather.

I live in an apartment building and have not had kids come around since the early 90's. I think a lot of it depends on the neighborhood here and where the parents think it is safe for their kids. I used to work with a woman who turned off all her lights on Halloween because people basically drove their kids to her neighborhood from across town. She could no longer afford Halloween.

It certainly is not like it was when I was a kid.

 

Talking of bummers..
Last yr they said "trick or treat". So I said "trick" and had a guy in a wheelchair with dreads appear for them.

No callers this year... Hmmm... :-/

 

I sort of commend the woman who handed out the letters. Except she was wrong to exclude the thin children, because sugar (in particular high fructose corn syrup) will hurt everyone's health eventually. There are plenty of thin people who are not healthy. Also, bad habits are developed while a person is young. When I was 10 years old I never dreamed I would ever get fat.

 

I was hoping for some twerk or tweeting.....;-)

 

She is obviously motivated to change people, but I think she went about it the wrong way. I really doubt she would change anyone's mind. I rarely see parents who are of normal weight raising obese kids. The parents themselves are usually overweight. You can scold the parents, but they won't really learn how to eat better.

I used to think raising obese children was a type of child abuse. You are really putting them at a disadvantage in life, socially, physically, emotionally. In retrospect, though, most people don't know better and simple education and easier access to healthful foods would be more effective than looking down on them.

You are right about thin people being unhealthy. There was a time in my life when I weighed not even 100 pounds and yet couldn't manage to run even one lap around the track! "Skinny fat", I was.

 

I used to be skinny fat too. I gained weight when I started eating healthy and exercising.

I kind of agree with PR. I don't really like the sugar culture we raise our kids in, but I have such fond memories of trick or treating that it is hard for me to condemn the tradition. Moderation is really key here. I'll let my son trick or treat when he is older but I don't plan on letting him binge on candy or sugary snacks otherwise.

 

I've never heard of trick or treating during the day, that's really strange.

 

Sometimes parents with younger kids will go around while it is still light out, late afternoon/early evening.

 

we have many neighborhoods that still do it..

my street happens to be a DEAD END also. limited houses, and people its pointless to decorate for holidays, nobody is going to see them. So people take self pleasure in making their house look seasonal. Here, Im just making my house look livable..

 

no, people watch and consume too much media, makes them think the world is a horrible place.
doesn't really jive so much with the reality i see.

 

My little hometown had the coolest tradition when i was growing up there. First, all the little kiddies( including me when I was one) met at the grammar school and then marched through town as a parade. Then we were treated to a movie at the one theater(one screen) in town. When we got out of the movie--it was time for everyone to spread out and beg for tooth-shortener. But here's the tradition: Everyone from the first grade to high school students to others older, ALL stocked up with water balloons and you never knew when you were going to get hit with one or more while trick or treating. Guys got up on roofs downtown, people were riding in cars throwing balloons at anybody and everybody, people walking around with their friends fighting others with WBs, most of the night. Grown-ups used to park down town to watch the balloon wars. With their doors locked and their windows up!! No one was immune from attack. This was the 40s and before--and up until--?? I moved away in 1960.

When I moved back there in 1987----the tradition was long gone. Probably get shot now if you hit someone with a water balloon.

 

That sounds fun as hell....

 

Oh, it really was. I'm sorry it faded away. The big kids would blast me and my buddies with 8 or 10 balloons and we'd blast them right back. It was just unspoken that Halloween was a time for everyone in town, regardless of age--to have fun and get soaking wet. People from other towns driving through would find themselves and their cars pelted by dozens of balloons by the big kids AND the little kids. They often got pissed 'till they realized it was going to happen whether they liked it or not!!Hey---bottom line---we were all from Lemoore and we'd turn on strangers like snakes!! Some times--maybe just sometimes--parts of the old days were better!! I miss it. I can almost feel a fat balloon smackin' me in the face!!

 

Hello,

OK, this red wine makes me loquacious, so here's a tale from my youth (Piaf hoert besser weg, weil es gleich evangelisch wird ). As you already know trick or treat has no tradition in my country. But there is something similar. As a young boy I lived in a former principality far away from where I live now. There was a tradition called 'Martinssingen' that took place in the evening of the 10th of november. All the children of the village formed a group and went with their lanterns from door to door singing songs, usually in the local idiom, and prising Martin Luther. And of cause, they collected sweets .

In former days the peasant labourers got set off for the winter time around the beginning of november. They were poor and had no income for the next months, so their children had to beg for food. Later with Martin Luther and the Reformation the religious aspects came in.

Regards
Gyro

 

Had 2 hours of trickery or treating a whole bunch of kids totalling..........wait for it......

Wait for it.........

Wait for it..........


8 kiddos......Pttfff