Halloween 2013

Wow, I canna believe my brain sometimes!

 

Not a single customer has been in costume today. No kids at all. In theory, more candy for me. In practice....seriously, someone else come take all this chocolate. I KNEW we shouldn't have gotten the good stuff.

 

That kicks ass.

 

When I was a kid we went trick or treating all over my neighborhoods and the surrounding ones. We all had fun and just about everybody had a lit pumpkin on their front porch. Now everybody goes trunk or treating in the daylight for the most part.
Smh....

 

I know, right? That makes me sad. Eden pointed out that people do the church thing because they know everyone there, so it's safer. When I was a kid, we DID know everyone in the neighborhood...or nearly, anyway. That isn't really the case now

Related: I heard today on the radio that someone did the research and went back twenty years...and didn't find a single REAL case of tainted candy. A couple of faked incidents, but that's it. I'd heard that before, but this was the first I'd heard of anyone officially researching it. Quite interesting.

 

With all the rain today, I was really hoping some idiot would still go with putting their kid in a toilet paper mummy costume. I'm not doing candy, but I really wanted to see some walking spitballs.

 

I was having hard time deciding if I wanted to go out in my cute shirt to watch the Bengals game or stay home to pass out candy. I don't think we'll have any trick or treaters this year though. :-(

 

Gave half my candy to the Olive Garden staff, then met some ADORABLE kids dressed as Thing 1 and Thing 2 in the lobby...their dad was the Cat in the Hat!

Other than that, no costumes. Apart from the Suess family, I was the only person in costume in the whole restaurant. Bummer.

 

I think you have just created a new Fox News segment: The WAR on Hallowe'en!

 

I saw two kids carrying Safeway shopping bags with candy inside step off the front porch of a house on my way to boot camp, a woman closing the front door of the house behind them. They weren't wearing costumes of any kind.

It was depressing.

 

The haul.

 

You are preaching to the choir!

 

Someone was giving out full size Hershey bars? That was THE HALLOWEEN GRAIL when I was a kid.

 

In my family's case, my nephew went trick-or-treating at the church because we live in a rural area. The closest town is 5 miles away and is still pretty spread out, and we definitely don't know everyone there. Getting everyone together at the local church allows the locals (even though we're spread out) to see everyone's costumes and participate in the holiday, rather than driving the kids over to the next town.

 

Oh, I know everyone's situation is different. We live in the middle of town, though, sidewalks and porches a-plenty, prime trick-or-treat territory. But everyone STILL goes to the church things, and the town stopped having trick-or-treat completely.

 

That's how it is here

 

I ended up at the bar (to watch the Bengals lose) and saw lots of costumes. College town, so there were lots of skanky costumes. I believe mine was the skankiest of all. Pregnant and unwed. Also, the Scariest.

 

I put a bowl of candy out for any post-sunset toddlers and it was promptly stolen while my girlfriend and I watched Ghostbusters on Netflix.

I should have expected as much.

Kids today.