I hate Halloween. 2011 Edition.

I agree about it being stupid. It's a holiday to give you the chance to act like something you're not.
I also find having a big celebration for New Years Eve dumb, too. Guess what? Tomorrow is Nov. 1, 2011, which is one year from Nov. 1, 2010. That's not a big deal, why is Jan. 1 any different?

 

No Halloween in my neighborhood. No power, but plenty of downed power lines. Last night my jack o' lantern was the only light on the street.

 

You sound like a lot of fun

 

I'll go tomorrow and buy bags of the stuff, hide them in a garbage bag in the back of a closet, and give it out next year.

Did this 2 years ago, and no one sued me after last Halloween, so presumably no one got sick from eating year-old Snickers...or no one figured out they got them at my house.

Didn't do it last year, and now I'm having to give out $50 worth of the same crap everyone else gives out.

 

Halloween be the tits. Except that the Saw movies have ended.

We expect anywhere from 50-60 million kids at the house tonight begging for candy. Unfortunately for them, my wife bought the candy weeks ago, most of which I've already eaten.

 

I experienced this unique Halloween tradition last year. Except for the fact that the parents couldn't get down our street because of so many cars, so the parents dropped the kids off at one end of the street, drove around the block and picked them up on the other side. Weirdest fucking thing I've ever seen.

It was really weird for me because this was the first Halloween where we had trick-or-treaters. When you live in the country, you don't have hoards of people coming by. We usually had my cousin's kids out before they went trick-or-treating in town, but that was about it. And before that, I was young enough that I went trick-or-treating. So last year was a shock for me. I basically had to just stand with the door open because we had so many kids.

 

We live on a dead-end street, where there are three kids who are under 18 and the average age in the neighborhood is 65-to-dead.
Not too worried about drive-by trick or treaters here because it's a fact of life.
My block is 1/4 mile and in that block there are 12 houses with two vacant and maybe six who aren't giving out anything. That's a long way to walk for four houses.

 

I'm all for anything that takes me away from watching the Chiefs.

 

"Honey, you forgot our anniversary."

"So, it's just another day."

 

"Then you send the children out in disguises to beg from strangers. 364 days a year you tell the kids to stay away from strangers and unknown houses...but on this day, they should bang on all the doors in the neighborhood demanding candy."

I think this post starting the thread is part of the problem today. When I grew up, my neighborhood was not a bunch of strangers. We knew practically everybody on the block and for several blocks around. Very few houses were strangers and we certainly didn't see it as begging or demanding.

I also remember having two professors from my dad's college come around with shot glasses and a flask. The idea was for them to have "drinks around the world." My sister, however, had no idea what to give them, so she gave them a shot of water. Pretty damn funny.

I think it is a kids' celebration but also an excuse for adults to dress up and act foolish. Almost nobody in this country celebrates the true meaning of St. Patrick's Day unless you think the true meaning is to drink fake green beer.

 

It really irks me when the kids don't say thank you after they get their candy.

 

I just remember this one as the first without my grandfather, who was born on Halloween quite a few moons ago. Worse, just signed some documents relating to him and the family.

Nice reminder ... no one could help the timing, but that was interesting.

It was fun to talk to him at least via phone on Oct. 31 and call him a "young man." He seemed to enjoy that ... no question that he's the social hub somewhere ... on that front, I got the recessive gene.