Halloween 2018

Don't know how many houses I saw decked out with Halloween stuff only to have no one home. Weird.

 

Trick-or-treater count here: None.

 

More than 100 last year. Probably fewer than 70 this year. Last one at 9 p.m.

 

The house across the street from me and next door both go dark.

There are five kids in the Halloween age demo between those two houses the parents take out.

I'm going to ask the one next door how many kids they got this year. It was down by a third from last year.

When they tell me they don't know I'll ask why, and continue to gently lead them down the path.

This is the kind of shit you do when you get old.

 

Halloween night for a childless couple on a dead end street that gets no trick or treaters: awesome night to go grocery shopping.

It felt like we had that Aldi and that Kroger to ourselves. And they announced the candy and baked goods were marked down as we were walking around at 8 p.m.. Score.

 

New, cool trend we saw was mobile candy givers. Basically, folks in the hood, who took their kids out, left their houses dark, but gave out candy to folks on the street.

 

Now that's that's the way to do it.

Taking from your neighbors without giving back bugs me.

( in case anyone was wondering )

 

Back in the day it was perfectly normal for parents walking around with kid to get treats as well - though they were usually of the liquid variety like a beer or a freshened up scotch and soda.

 

My house was a designated Halloween beer stop for parents back in the day.

 

Last year our house had like 20 trick or treaters. This year, none. The nearby middle school has a Halloween costume party, so we don't ever get the kids in hoodies, but what happened to the other ones?

 

We had maybe 20 kids total, and four of those were my two and the neighbors' two. Had three dudes in hoodies, which is lame, but I gave them candy anyway because I bought a bag of 145 (or 175; not sure) and stared handing out three Reese's, Kit Kats, etc. every time a kid came to the door. I'm surprised there were so few because the weather was pretty nice, cool but not cold. Now I have a shit-ton of candy to get rid of, lest I eat it and make my stomach's doughnut tire into a full-blown all-weather radial.