I left candy out on the porch this evening while I was out, fully expecting the basket to be empty when I came home.

I did not expect the basket to be GONE.

Fuckin punk kids. That was a nice basket.

10/31/2011 9:39:07 PM

lol

10/31/2011 9:39:46 PM

tonight:

modlin: Happy Halloween! Take one of whatever you want.

Kid I've never seen before in our neighborhood: *swipes largest handful of candy possible and leaves, sans gracias.*

10/31/2011 9:53:29 PM

I'm pretty sure you'd say my generation was the worst if you were old enough to be there.
We would have busted your mailbox and flagged down the Dominos guy so we could egg his car while you watched in horror.

I had two groups of trick-or-treaters this year.
One was a couple kids that live one street over. The other was a van full of kids, over half of which weren't wearing any sort of costume, who didn't seem to understand the number "three" in the phrase "take three".

[Edited on October 31, 2011 at 10:02 PM. Reason : l]

10/31/2011 10:00:42 PM

i'd say one of the parents stole the basket

10/31/2011 10:02:38 PM

We hand out candy to the 10 and under crowd between 6:30 and 8, then shut off our lights when they truck in the mexican kids from other neighborhoods who don't wear costumes and carry plastic food lion bags.

10/31/2011 10:02:55 PM

So what do you tell the 11 and 12 year olds who want candy?

10/31/2011 10:06:37 PM

i tell them what every good republican tells them


get a job and buy your own goddamn candy, stop looking for handouts


then they hung out in my yard with Occupy Halloween signs, and the whole thing went to shit.

10/31/2011 10:08:25 PM

Then I'll bet you shot a few of them, got some bad publicity and held up some sign showing how you "beat the odds."

10/31/2011 10:09:21 PM

is it a dick move to say no costume no candy

10/31/2011 10:09:57 PM

I had two high school chicks show up in some terribly skimpy costumes and pillow cases for bags.

1) Who lets their kids out in such yucky weather in so little clothes?
2) Pillow cases? Really?
3) ...
4) Fuck...I'm getting old...

[Edited on October 31, 2011 at 10:10 PM. Reason : asdf]

10/31/2011 10:10:03 PM

Ha! I had pillow cases when I was in HS. But I also went really over the top on costumes.

Aaannnnnndddddddd this is why I was a fat ass in HS

10/31/2011 10:11:41 PM

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"Then I'll bet you shot a few of them, got some bad publicity and held up some sign showing how you "beat the odds.""

I told 'em they could have candy under my 9-9-9 plan.

9 pieces for 9 kids and 9pm.

Nobody showed back up.

10/31/2011 10:12:19 PM

Yeah, but this would have resulted in less candy for the poor while benefiting the rich.

10/31/2011 10:14:20 PM

Yeah really wtf. I too had kids showing up not even wearing halloween stuff and holding grocery bags.

10/31/2011 10:24:21 PM

have you people never experienced this before?

lewl

10/31/2011 10:29:55 PM

peephole/window?

use them?

10/31/2011 10:30:53 PM

axl on a roll with the political halloween jokes

10/31/2011 10:50:13 PM

Teenagers and crappy excuses for costumes and pillowcases go hand in hand in hand.



I also had some trio of 13 or 14-ish year old girls show up wearing some stuff that was in no way appropriate, for basically anyone to wear. It was uncomfortable, and I just stared at the uncarved jock-o-lantern on my porch.


All the younger kids were a hoot, though.

10/31/2011 10:57:37 PM

I had one group of three come by my apartment, I shall be eating reese cup minis for many a fortnight.

10/31/2011 11:50:23 PM

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"Yeah really wtf. I too had kids showing up not even wearing halloween stuff and holding grocery bags."

I like giving those kids a hard time. Last night we had a middle school girl that wasn't in costume with her two friends that were. Her one friend actually had a bad ass Bride of Frankenstein costume. I complimented her and then say to the no costume girl, "And you are....?"

"I'm a hobo."

"Where's your satchel of your worldly possessions?"

"What?"

"Did another hobo beat you for your things? Sucks when that happens. Back when I was jumping trains hobos respected each other."

" "

11/1/2011 9:15:21 AM

aha! Come back when you have a real costume!

11/1/2011 9:17:31 AM

I'll bet they give you a really nice Christmas gift basket and you feel like a dick for making this thread.

11/1/2011 9:31:38 AM

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"I left candy out on the porch this evening while I was out, fully expecting the basket to be empty when I came home. "

I did the same thing while I took my daughter out trick or treating and my wife was still at work.


We came back, and the basket was still half full. And I always stock the good shit. none of that bullshit tootsie roll crap.

anecdotes are anecdotal.

11/1/2011 9:33:56 AM

I'm kind of disappointed when the kids don't take all the candy if I leave a basket out. I don't want it laying around tempting me.

11/1/2011 9:36:34 AM

I put our candy in a real deep bowl and covered the good stuff with a few layers of tootsie rolls, only one kid reached in far enough to get a kit kat. I'm good on candy for the next month.

11/1/2011 9:57:28 AM

Quote :

"Is a man not entitled to the candy of his brow? "No!' says the man in Washington, 'It belongs to the poor.' 'No!' says the man in the Vatican, 'It belongs to God.' 'No!' says the man in Moscow, 'It belongs to everyone.' I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose... Rapture, a city where the artist would not fear the censor, where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality, Where the great would not be constrained by the small! And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city as well.""

11/1/2011 10:12:49 AM

do y'all feel obliged to hand/leave out candy or do you just enjoy doing it?

i never went trick or treating and my family never handed out candy. maybe i'm missing out on some simple pleasure by not handing out candy.

11/1/2011 10:15:23 AM

we had exactly no trick-or-treaters last night

11/1/2011 10:15:55 AM

LOL

The last two trick-or-treaters looked like they were 25 years old. No costume and a Food Lion plastic bag


We had ~75 kids. One that about shit her costume when she saw our kitten come to the door. "OH MAH GAHHHH, I AM SOOOOOO SCARED OF CATS." She made me underarm her candy into her bag from like 5 feet away from the door

11/1/2011 10:21:40 AM

Quote :

""Yeah really wtf. I too had kids showing up not even wearing halloween stuff and holding grocery bags." I like giving those kids a hard time. Last night we had a middle school girl that wasn't in costume with her two friends that were. Her one friend actually had a bad ass Bride of Frankenstein costume. I complimented her and then say to the no costume girl, "And you are....?" "

Either those kids' parents wouldn't help them get costume, or they don't support Halloween and that kid had to sneak out with their friends. It's kind of mean to give them a hard time i think...

11/1/2011 10:25:06 AM

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"do y'all feel obliged to hand/leave out candy or do you just enjoy doing it?"

I wouldn't say I feel obliged, it's just something I do and could easily not do.

The wife, on the other hand, loves handing out candy and is way better at it than I am ( I'm a candy machine, she interacts). Biggest regret of downtown living is no trick-or-treaters this year.

/something...something...candy redistribution

11/1/2011 10:29:40 AM

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"do y'all feel obliged to hand/leave out candy or do you just enjoy doing it?"

I enjoy doing it. I like seeing what the kids dress up as and I remember the joy it brought me when I was a kid and people could correctly identify who I was dressed as. That Bride of Frankenstein was so stoked when I correctly identified her costume last night, you could just see her whole face light up. I'm guessing I was one of the few that knew what she was

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"Either those kids' parents wouldn't help them get costume, or they don't support Halloween and that kid had to sneak out with their friends. It's kind of mean to give them a hard time i think..."

Naw, it's all in good fun. I'm not mean about it, just jesting. If anyone thought I was being serious with them when giving them a hard time they need to remove the stick from their ass. Usually the teenagers will get into it with me when I'm jabbing them and we have a good laugh together.

11/1/2011 10:30:31 AM

http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/10/31/1608565/w-club-blvd-is-candy-lovers-lane.html

Dude in Durham gets more than a thousand t-or-t'ers.

11/1/2011 10:32:53 AM

no trick-or-treaters at my place, same as last year. Am dreading moving to a neighborhood where we might have to deal with the vans of greedy kids.

11/1/2011 10:33:01 AM

^ Just turn your front lights off if you don't want trick-or-treaters. That's the de facto sign that someone is a Halloween fuddy duddy

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"Every year, artist Galia Goodman reconstructs Harry Potter lore in her yard off Club along with her partner Meredith Emmett. Kids will wait in line for 10 minutes for a turn at the sorting hat, and adults enjoy beer and wine inside at a makeshift Three Broomsticks pub. "

This sounds awesome. Eventually I want to really do up our yard for Halloween. The neighborhood my parents are in there's a guy that does up his garage every year as a big haunted house and gets the local teenage kids to play the part of the monsters. He gives out glow sticks to the kids and beers to the parents. I want to be that house one day

11/1/2011 10:37:53 AM

i am never at home on halloween for a reason

this year was easy because i had a hockey game

11/1/2011 10:39:35 AM

I figured on a weak showing in my neighborhood because a)it was raining when I got home, b)we had probably about 25 kids total last year, and c)I didn't even bother to get a pumpkin. So I only got 2 bags of candy. Damn if I wasn't out of candy an hour after I started handing it out--21 visitors by my count. So I had to cut off the porch light at 7:50. Which is fine--keeps the older kids away.

I did have a group of ~11 year olds show up not in costume. I still gave them candy, but I do wonder--at that age I still enjoyed costuming up. Where's the halloween spirit?

And the easiest way to solve the problem of kids taking to much is to hand the candy out yourself rather than offering a bowl. Two pieces per person, each the same. Easy and fair.

[Edited on November 1, 2011 at 12:41 PM. Reason : j]

11/1/2011 12:40:45 PM

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"And the easiest way to solve the problem of kids taking to much is to hand the candy out yourself rather than offering a bowl. Two pieces per person, each the same. Easy and fair."

Yep exactly. I don't let the kids pick out their own candy. Keeps the line moving and you're able to better ration your supplies.

11/1/2011 12:44:14 PM

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"do y'all feel obliged to hand/leave out candy or do you just enjoy doing it? i never went trick or treating and my family never handed out candy. maybe i'm missing out on some simple pleasure by not handing out candy."

No trick-or-treating in Old Salem?

wtf?

11/1/2011 12:51:51 PM

Maybe his family celebrated Jesusween.

11/1/2011 12:53:56 PM

11/1/2011 12:56:38 PM

ahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.. dude i shared this with my co-workers and we are all laughing

11/1/2011 1:11:01 PM

AxlBonBach has me loling at the occupy halloween in his yard

11/1/2011 1:15:10 PM

There were more teenagers without costumes than there were kids out trick or treating in our neighborhood.

11/1/2011 1:40:06 PM

I think more parents are being lame and bringing their kids to trick or treat in the mall. Maybe if you'd talk to your goddamn neighbors every once in awhile you'd realize they're not a bunch of ax murderers that want to rape and pillage your children that you should be supervising while trick-or-treating anyway

[Edited on November 1, 2011 at 1:51 PM. Reason : a]

11/1/2011 1:43:29 PM

I heard a 3rd hand account from someone that went to the mall because of the weather. They said they waited in line for 30 minutes and got a (one) tootsie roll. IIRC their haul was 4 pieces of candy for the hour they were there.

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"i never went trick or treating and my family never handed out candy."

Did your family ever hand out Watchtower magazines?

[Edited on November 1, 2011 at 1:47 PM. Reason : -]

11/1/2011 1:47:15 PM

That wouldn't surprise me at all. When I was in college I worked at Crabtree and every Halloween would be a candy passer outer. My boss would always buy the shittiest candy and we would only have enough to give like one mini Tootsie Roll per kid. Neighborhoods always have the better payout.

11/1/2011 1:51:00 PM

my house and white people's houses in the subdivision ($150k-200k during better times) were the only ones handing out candy

11/1/2011 2:09:22 PM