Do people actually TRICK or just treat?
 

Has anyone ever done a trick / had someone do a trick for you?

I was thinking about "trick or treat" when the little girl came to my door and I wondered if anyone actually did a "trick".. that would kinda ..suck.. if you were a little kid.

The trick part of it is what the kids play on you if you stiff them for candy.

IE: you pay off the goblins with treats, or they kill your livestock (so to speak)

Those little bastards!!!! I hope I dont run outta candy..

I've been tricked before, when i was a kid, my neigbhour gave me two bags of chips that were fully sealed, opened them weeks later, inside was a note that said trick.

How many kids did not say trick or treat at all to you? I'd say only 30% of the kids actually said "trick or treat".

I want to penalize those kids that aren't really feeling it. Especially those damn teenagers who wander in half-assed and expect to take the cream of the crop candy from the little 6 year old girl who is dressed to the nines like a fairy with glitter and gossamer wings. :D

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=170

I thought this comic was funny and somewhat appropriate to this thread, although I hope nobody would "trick" like this.

I always thought that "trick or treat" was a threat. That's why egg and toilet paper sales go up every year about this time...

That's why I have a bowl of good stuff and a bowl of crap stuff.

I'd say about 60% of the kids said "trick or treat" about half of that said "thank you." I only had about half a dozen teenagers come to the door though...I guess the word spread about my 'crap' bowl of candy :D


I had one teenage kid come to the door with a trashbag and a ripped up mask that he had scotch-taped back together. Didn't say anything. Just held up his bag expecting... Guess from which bowl of I served him?

When I was in 7th grade, me, my brother and a few friends egged houses that don't answer the door. We were little bastards back then.

LOL PandaFaye....:lol:

Isn't the Great Pumpkin a trick, much the same as Santa or the Easter Bunny or Conservative Compassion? (sorry)

I trick every year. I get out the old coffin I made years ago, dress up to look like a maniquin, and jump out at people who grab too much candy from the 'trust bowl' (I leave the bowl of candy out in the open below a sign that reads "You're on your honor to grab no more than 3 pieces"). That's a trick, yes?

That's awesome, willravel! :lol:

I remember this house which had a stuffed dummy of the Queen on the porch. Much to our horror,when we said "Trick or treat", the lady at the door said "Trick". After an awkward silence, she made us sing the national anthem to the Queen. Afterwards, she gave us some candy.

She wins. I must remember that for next year.

I required them to, if they knocked on my door. Otherwise, how could I know why they were there?? :) The youngest didn't knock on my door, but they were with people who did.

There was one infant dressed up as a pumpkin. Cute!

We had a bowl of Chicklets (crappy gum) for any teenagers that came around... all the little kids got top choice chocolate bars...

There does come a time when you really are too old to Trick or Treat...

hey you don't want to piss off the teenagers or you'll get egged later on! well atleast i did when i was a teenager!

Yeah, trick or treat means give us treats or we'll egg you. Trick has never come up because I've always gotten candy. Though I have pulled a trick or two from the other side in giving candy. One was mixing in those chicken cube things (for soup or cooking to give flavor), they come in cubes wrapped in foil looking material. They basically look like chocolate. Another one is to wrap foil around ice cubes, save em for kids with paper bags, later they melt and their candy falls through the bottom. :D
Couple other one's though I forget them right now.

So wrong. :lol:

Wow, some of you people were/are bastards! :lol:




got anymore ideas? :D

If you can believe it, we had 95% of the kids, who came to the door, say trick or treat. Even the bigger kids! I was shocked. I'd say about 85% actually said thank you too! A lot of the smaller kids are too shy to say trick or treat or thank you. Most of the parents that accompanied the kids did remind them to say thank you. It was nice.

Yup! we saved the un-popular candy from our 8 year-old's haul (suckers, that yucky halloween taffy etc) to dish out to the teenagers that didn't bother to dress up even. We even had such left-overs from last year to give them.

Just in case our son was asked for a trick, he memorized a Knock Knock joke:

"Knock Knock"
"who's there?"
"Isabel"
"isabel who?"
"Isabel broken? ? I had to Knock!"

I know I know, lame, but cute from an 8 year old.

by the way. how do these kids get past their parents with a handfull of eggs??????

in most states, it's legal to buy eggs at safeway without a permit.. :)

thats why we used a sign that said:

No costume = No Candy
Lame costume = Crap Candy

If you're willing to dress up half way decently I'll give ya candy no matter the age. Its all about the spirit of fun.

My brother dressed up as a scarecrow this year (he's an adult), and hung out on his porch to scare the crap out of kids coming up to the door. :)

Only two kids came round this year, and I gave them ..a carrot. They managed to turn it back on us though, bless them- they pretended to be really enthusiastic and took a huge bite out of it :lol:

And they were good enough to not come back and play tricks on us for it, though in this area we suspected they'd probably shoot us if we didn't give them treats.

My parents were tricked multiple times. It was because they either gave out tracts or tracts with a single piece of sugar free candy stapled to them. They had their car windows soaped, cherry bombs in the mailbox, and pumpkins mashed on the deck, car hoods, and mailbox. Not all in one year. Eventually they quit even getting trick or treaters and consequently tricks.

Nowadays the town posts an article in the paper. If you leave on your front lights then you are welcoming trick or treaters. If you don't want them then you are supposed to leave your exterior lights off and no one should even bother you.

Yeah same here about the porch light thing. I thought that was true everywhere? Anyone not know/do that?

Porch lights on, or pumpkins lit up means you're open for business around our neighbourhood. Of course most people sit on their porches anyways, waiting for the little devils to show up.

Reanna, what are tracts?

One year we made a “shell” for a radio controlled car – it looked sort of like a cross between a rat, a possum, and a vampire. On Halloween we would hide it in the bushes next to the street and wait for those older trick-or-treaters to come by… those that were in their teens.
When the beast from heck leapt out of a dark bush and screamed around their ankles they demonstrated what they were really made of… Without exception they screamed like little girls and jumped about eight feet straight up.
My kids liked doing this MUCH more than walking around begging for candy.

The rules were you couldn’t launch The Rat at little kids or moms. Dads were fair game unless they had little kids right with them. We used that car for years.

Religious literature. :)

I've never done any tricks, but where I grew up we had plenty of tricks pulled on us (my dad was the high school principal). One time they TP'd our station wagon...even went so far as to tie the toilet paper in little bows along the roof rack. We were impressed--my mom found out who did it and made sure they knew how funny we thought it was (took a little of the wind out of their sails). Another time someone ripped out a bunch of our expensive rhododendrons...needless to say my parents were not pleased about that stunt, found out who did it, and demanded that they replant or replace the rhodies.

We also had our house egged one year because I'd evidently broken some guy's heart...yeah, lame, I know. You'd think a guy could just get over it.

I'm 43. When does that time come? :D

One of my neighbors, up the block, did that to my three year old this year, and made him cry. Said neighbor's girlfriend came out of the house, chewed his ass out, and gave my son a super huge portion from the "good" bowl. It all ended up good.

Oh...yeah...sorry 'bout that. :o

I never thought of the crap bowl of candy. That's a fantastic idea.

One of the first houses we went to the man of the house sat on the porch, very still, with a mask on. I thought it was a dummy, but at the last moment he pulled his mask off and startled my son. It was funny though, and the rest of the evening my son asked if "this house has monsters too".

We got "tricked" many times growing up, because my mom thought Halloween was a celebration of Satan and evil, and therefore we didn't give out candy (nor did we go trick or treating, I was a deprived child). It was usually tp'ing or egging.

I have run into a lot of people where that was the case...so they trick or treated as teens/college students because they finally could. However, I find that in that case, most of them then proceed to go all out to dress up and be Halloween-y. I've always advised those folks to also try and find a small child to take with them--people are more sympathetic to older trick or treaters when they have kids with them ;)

Wow. I guess I gotta count myself lucky that my house has never gotten egged or tped. Especially since we never give out candy. Or at least we stopped when I hit grade 4, since I stopped going out anyway.

Is cleaning up the eggs as bad as it sounds?

Eggs are awful. But i'm speaking from from the experience of an egged car. We came out of the school gym after our band had finished the prom, and found all of our cars (ahem... our parent's cars) covered in semi frozen raw eggs.

It was hard to scrape off, as it had all congealed in the near zero (celsius) temps, so we decided to drive to the coin carwash to clean them up. On the way, the eggs started to cook due to the heat of the engine, and it smelled awful, like scrambled eggs. Even then, it was hard to remove. My mom freaked and wouldn't let me drive her (bright orange Opel GT) car around for a long time after that.