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A haunting we will go

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by dixiehack, Oct 31, 2024 at 1:40 PM.

  1. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    I did not expect to start a Halloween thread, but this is bizarre to me.

    In a first since 1938, Des Moines, Iowa, kids will trick-or-treat on Halloween
     
  2. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

  3. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    Halloween was the only night of the year we had family dinner before 6 p.m.. We always ate late, like 8 or 9 pm. with all of us kids having soccer practice etc. Mom would usually make soup and grilled cheese. And it ALWAYS irritated me when we were eating, and it wasn't even dark yet and the doorbell would start ringing. I was convinced there wouldn't be any candy left by the time we hit the streets.
    Anyone else do the shaving cream thing? Where you "modify" the nozzle (Barbasol works great) with a nail and melt it to get it to spray six feet or so? I was in college and felt bad that I had to demonstrate how to do it to some of my friends. Talk about a wasted youth.
     
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  4. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    In Mississippi it seems like Halloween is a floating holiday. Every year in early October it's a big deal for each town to announce the date and times of trick-or-treating. As a Yankee kid, we always went out as soon as it started getting dark on Oct. 31, and wrapped it up by about 8 p.m. That's just the way it was. The idea that you can do it on a different day is still completely bizarre to me.
     
  5. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    I just reread this. I thought they didn't do trick-or-treat it all. They did it, just not on Halloween.

    I don't get why this is a story. All kinds of communities around me have trick-or-treat on all kinds of different days. I says trick-or-treat should be on Halloween or not at all. But my opinion doesn't count most places.
     
  6. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    It’s one thing if the Karen brigade pushes it to the weekend before. But always on the 30th? And I have to put on a show too? Miss me with that nonsense Des Moines.
     
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  7. Twirling Time

    Twirling Time Well-Known Member

    Frightloose.
     
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  8. cyclingwriter2

    cyclingwriter2 Well-Known Member

    Happy Halloween, you filthy animals
     
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  9. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    I've eaten about two-thirds of the candy I bought to hand out. Unlike Motel 6, we're keeping the light off.

    We've had maybe three kids come by in the two years we've lived here.

    I'm gonna turn into a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup. The full size!
     
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  10. fossywriter8

    fossywriter8 Well-Known Member

    The Ohio city I live in holds it on a Saturday each year.
     
  11. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    Ohio is weird.
     
  12. Twirling Time

    Twirling Time Well-Known Member

    It’s past 8:30 Central and the light is off. As usual I overbought on sugar bombs, so the whole pail is going to work with me tomorrow.
     
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