I hate Halloween. 2011 Edition.

Inky_Wretch · Oct 31, 2011

slappy4428 said:

Wenders said:

Bubbler said:

Drive-by trick-or-treaters suck, suck, suck.

I get it ... some kids don't live in good neighborhoods and some don't live in neighborhoods where its easy to trick-or-treat.

Fine. Park your car somewhere and walk around like everyone else.

But don't drive around my neighborhood, throw the doors open to your van like its the kidnapping scene from Old School, launch your kids out the door, then rinse-repeat down the street ... a street filled with little kids in usually dark costumes that your hillbilly ass doesn't see because you're perpetually trying to one-up Big Daddy Don Garlits every time you hit your Econoline gas pedal.

Dicks.
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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.
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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.
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We live in a historic neighborhood, one block from a park. Last year, the police estimated 800 kids were in our neighborhood at 8 p.m. Parents from nearby neighborhoods hook up trailers to their trucks, throw bales of hay on and pull 25 kids at a time around from street to street. A church from a poorer section of town brought their kids in on a bus.

It it is in-freakin-sane here. My next-door neighbor went through $200 worth of candy last year. We did our $50 worth, turned off the light and went to their house for drinks.

imjustagirl · Oct 31, 2011

Machine Head said:

This year will be the first I won't have any of my kids going out to trick or treat.

They've moved into the 'Halloween Party' demo.

Ugh.
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Crap, you're old.

Machine Head · Oct 31, 2011

imjustagirl said:

Machine Head said:

This year will be the first I won't have any of my kids going out to trick or treat.

They've moved into the 'Halloween Party' demo.

Ugh.
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Crap, you're old.
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BE NICE TO ME!

Didn't you hear the news?

I'm trying to work through this Kim and Kris thing over on another thread!

Very upsetting!

Machine Head · Oct 31, 2011

No trick or treaters yet.

Must resist candy.

Machine Head · Oct 31, 2011

Using beer to fight off urge for candy.

Working so far.

imjustagirl · Oct 31, 2011

Twenty trick-or-treaters. One in costume. All taking handfuls.

Freaks.

waterytart · Oct 31, 2011

kickoff-time said:

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.
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We don't know our neighbors as well as our parents did, but I can place most of the faces. Everybody's having a good time tonight, and there will be chocolate in the house tomorrow.

I can't find the problem.

Huggy · Oct 31, 2011

Beautiful night weather wise here but our neighbourhood is a ghost town, both in the number of houses giving out and the number of kids. More for me, I guess!

imjustagirl · Oct 31, 2011

I have made the mistake of eating a Reese's pumpkin. Which means the porch light is now going off and they may have to cut me out of the house tomorrow.

holy bull · Oct 31, 2011

No trick-or-treaters, which is good, because they would've gotten cups of yogurt. And then my apartment probably gets egged.

Gomer · Oct 31, 2011

We were running out of candy, so I was sent to go get more. Of course, the supermarket will drop the prices tomorrow, not tonight, so there goes $25. I grabbed a handful before heading back to work, just ate it all in five minutes and now I feel like shit.

Like every Monday night, there's only two people in the office from now until midnight. And the other guy is home because he has time to hand out candy.

Fuck Halloween.

Machine Head · Oct 31, 2011

Giving beer to the parents.

Big size candy to the kids.

Everybody seems happy.

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