Happy *hic* F’ck’n’ *hic* Halloween!

jrockbridge

jrockbridge

Stealing Your Riffs
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Dudeman1967 said:
How many candy beggers did you get?

We had about 50. up from last year. way down from decades ago.
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About 50.

Mrs DCF had 36 bags made up.
Yeah, instead of a bowl of stuff and the everyone-gets-one approach, she bags up some stuff and hands those out. This year, she even included full-size chocolate bars.
After the bags went, she started handing out the reserves in the traditional style. That lasted about 3 door-knocks.

I got a Mr. Big bar and we’ve got a Crunchie bar to share. Usually, we’re still eating Halloween candy at New Years…

Most of the kids were shipped into the neighbourhood. There’s not that many living around here.
I’m fine with that. They had fun. I won’t get as fat.


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We don’t get any trick or treaters where I live because it’s too far to walk between houses. When we first moved in, I was prepared with candy, thinking parents would drive their kids around the neighborhood. Nope. In 25 years, nobody has ever come to the door on Halloween. Instead, they drive their children to trunk ‘r treat, or a more densely populated neighborhood.

The pic I posted is at a friend’s house in his neighborhood. We have a small group of Dad’s who all got to know each other back in the days our sons were in Boy Scouts. We meet up at the same Dad’s home on Halloween each year.

What we noticed at his home this Halloween was, the parents and kids came around much later this year, because it was not a school night. I don’t know how many came by because I got distracted helping cook burgers and brats as well as drinking beer and booze. I was never on candy duty.

A few of the Dad’s and Mom’s from the neighborhood came by after making the rounds with their kids. As far as I know, it was a success. If it wasn’t, I was too smashed to notice.
 
We also are in an area with a bare minimum of foot traffic (as in, none), so we participate in some of the local trunk-or-treat things and then halloween night go to the father-in-law's house, although it sounds like last night was pretty lame. I stayed home, sick for the second weekend in a row. Somehow feeling both better and worse today, so that's amazing. I don't remember getting sick like this when I was still drinking. . . although I probably just drowned the symptoms :embarrassed:
 
Dudeman1967 said:
Can’t help but hearing the King of the Hill theme song. Yep. Mmhmm, yessir
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I shit you not. My brain added audio too. It was the guy, second from the right saying, When we got to her house to drop her off, I walked around to open the car door for her and saw a claw hanging form the door handle.
 
The neighborhood website had doorbell cam footage of 2 high school students taking ALL the candy from a self serve candy bowl. The sign read, “Take 3. Leave some candy for others.” The students were recognized because they wore the same costumes to school the day before Halloween. Other students went to the home and refilled the empty bowl from their candy bags.
 
We didn’t have any and I was a little surprised this year. This year we’ve had a couple new homes in the area and I saw kids walking up and down the road. My girl and sat out on the front porch with a candy bowl but, no takers.
 
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