I hate Halloween. 2011 Edition.

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I don't mind Halloween, just as long as no one expects me to dress up as something.

The Wife and La Kid are big into it. They decorated the house together and the Kid just won a costume contest tonight for a costume the wife put together in a few hours.

Tomorrow she's going trick-or-treating in yet another costume the wife put together over a few days.

The only time I got irritated was at our old house, when we lived in a relatively upscale neighborhood. Parents were literally bus-ing their kids in from all over town. We had to make extra trips to load up on candy. Finally we'd just give up and turn off the lights.

All in all, as long as I get some mini-Snickers: yum.

 

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I dunno what is going on here for Halloween. We may not even be here to give out candy to the kids. :-[ I wish work was the excuse.

On the bright side, I have plenty of black clothing. ;D

 

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State volleyball tourney is tomorrow and I get to cover. Ms. Slappy is going with her SIL and her niece to a Halloween party at the church, so the kids get to fish from the bucket on the porch.....

I did however make an executive decision not to put the Heath bars in the bucket and swap out white chocolate Reese's cups... Heath bars stay in the office...

 

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"And frog."

Best line, without a doubt.

 

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This is my first Halloween in a new town. I wonder if there are any good movies playing. ...

 

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I'm always a fan of giving candy to women who have bigger breasts than I do. I don't see the fucking problem here. Especially if she wants to do something lascivious with a Blow Pop.

 

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Halloween is fun if you have kids. I'm tailoring my shift tomorrow so I can go with them.

As far as doling out candy, I don't mind so long as the kids aren't little fuckers when you give it to them. Any lip from them and I start grab-assing for the Milk Duds, Smarties and Sweet Tarts, aka, The Candy Ghetto. No Hershey or Nestle products for you if you're a prick.

If they're really prickish, I'll go nuclear, and throw some Double Bubble Gum down their insipid Little Bratz candy bags that match their jagoff Little Bratz outfit they stupidly bought for $30 at Target.

If those aforementioned candies make up part of the Candy Ghetto, Double Bubble is the burned out, blown-up meth lab of trick-or-treat candy that everyone else in Candy Ghetto avoids.

I can't wait to get really old so I can give away individually wrapped bags of pennies or perhaps even wooden nickels so the little whipper-snappers learn the value of a good buck.

 

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I miss living in a house at Halloween, because I actually did like handing out candy and seeing what costumes came to my door. Last year, I bought DOTS and Butterfingers, wondering if kids would trick or treat at an upstairs apartment. Nope. Brought the candy to work the next day, shared it with co-workers who brought in their own leftover candy.

Last year was a definite letdown. I'll be at work tomorrow night, so I won't waste any money on candy this time.

I might buy a bag of Kit-Kats when that Halloween candy goes on sale Thursday, though.

 

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Kind of gross, yet pretty fucking funny. I admit I laughed.

 

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I should add that I went trick-or-treating after marching band practice in 10th grade.

I was a musician.

They put candy in the bell of my upside-down instrument.

The night of the Christmas concert, I blew a "spitball" -- a cleaning sponge -- through my trombone.

Out came a Skittle.

 

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I say it like "shallow" but that may just be the Kentucky redneck way of saying it. Have I been wrong all these years?

 

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I think most of us say it like "Hal" (or Cal or gal or pal or Sal), not like "hall" (or call or fall or gall or pall or tall or wall).

I always thought the whole concept of "trick or treat" amounted to extortion. You'd better give us some candy if you know what's good for you; you wouldn't want us to drape toilet paper all over your property. Fortunately, kids today are mostly concerned with the "treat" part.