hardly any kids last night...

[vert_95]

My neighborhood was decent but it sure as hell wasn't like it was when I was a kid, what's up with kids starting to trick or treat at 5? I remember we wouldn't start till it got dark.

[TRAXX]

Middle of the road for us. This was the first go around in the new house. It was quite busy between 7 and 8 and that was about it....and it was mainly younger neighborhood kids. None of the middle school kids not dressing up with pillow cases or folks that dont live in the hood which was a nice change from how it was at our previous house.

The previous hood had alot of kids from the surrounding oldish apartments. The new hood isnt near a bunch of apts and is kinda hidden from the main road so that seems to keep it to the locals.

[SMKR]

a few things.....

1. how about we dont fly down the street in the car in the pitch black when we know there are kids out.

2. we are so lazy that we cant be bothered to walk around with our kids, we have to drive them door to door and or follow them in the car. squeeze in a little quality time with your kid.

3. dont have a bigger goat that me and no costume and expect candy as we will ask you to do a backflip.

4. halloween grinch rant off. feel free to add!

god bless.

Mobile road humps

[Rick Modena]

Did I miss where you moved back to the States?

There was not a thread made, but yes he is back and here to stay I believe since he bought two new cars and got the Purdy reach around special on both...

[Gear_Jammer]

I love Halloween, so my my whole yard is tricked out with all kinds of lights, zombies, fog machines, etc. Last night I handed out the candy while a buddy of mine in a bloody clown mask chased kids with my chainsaw and another buddy in a werewolf costume crept around in my graveyard scaring the crap out of people. My decorations are famous in my hood, so much so that we have to block the street off. I'll bet I had a steady flow of 200+ parents & kids out in front of my house and the neighbors' houses on either side for at least an hour and a half. I was giving 1-2 pieces of candy per kid and ended up going through 12 big bags of candy!!!

I'm pretty cool about handing out candy to all the kids - young and older. The only people that piss me off are the 20+ year olds that walk up with a 6 week old baby and a shopping bag asking for candy. Last night I had a lady that had to have been over 40 carrying a few month old baby asking for candy. I asked her whether the candy was for her or the baby, but it was such a madhouse that I never heard her answer. Those are the people that I grab a handful of candy, act like I'm putting it in their bags, rustle it around in my hand like I'm dropping it in there and then pull it back out without giving them a damn thing. They smile or say thank you thinking I gave them a bunch and walk off fat, dumb and happy.

[Samhain]

We went to the festival at the Cowboy Church in Waxahachie. Free food and drinks, games, mechanical bull, animals, pony rides, tons of prizes and give aways, candy out the ass... Why would people send their kids door to door anymore?

Did I miss where you moved back to the States?

[The King]

Kids tend to go to affluent areas these days. We were slammed.

So you drove a van or busload of kids to an affluent area? Very good of you to be such a trooper.

[Gtracer]

I loved the fact that since it is halloween, EVERYONE can just ignore the sidewalk and walk down the middle of the street...I had a group of about 10 kids, most of which were difficult to see as it was dark outside and they tend to "blend" in just walking right downt he middle of the street side by side...

Anyways, they just look back at you as if I was in the wrong. You ever get that stong urge to just bump one of them...lol

[naynay]

Kids tend to go to affluent areas these days. We were slammed.

[stephen4785]

My street had so many kids that you couldnt even drive. Evryone ran out of candy in about an hour.

[71chevellejohn]

No way! I'd shove a Snickers up someone's ass!

You'd do that anyway....

[jtm98snake]

did anyone else notice a lack of trick or treaters last night?? We are in carrollton and i bet will still have 10lbs of candy left over. i had parents asking us to NOT give so much candy as i was attempting to get rid of it so i dont balloon to 600lbs after eating all the left overs.

god bless.

I live in a pretty close proximity to Castle Hills and one of my neighbors told me you couldn't find a parking spot in that neighborhood due to the influx of trick o treaters to the area. It was pretty much a ghost town @ my neighborhood which is fine with me.

[Pokulski-Blatz]

Went through 6 jumbo bags of candy and still ran out. I didn't expect that many kids. I sat outside from 6ish till about 9 with a heavy stream of kids.

Only lost my temper once when the 15 passenger van pulled up filled with Mexicans. It was the 70 year old non English speaker that prompted the "get the fuck out of here" response.

[CJ-95GT]

So is age 10 a good time for them to quit? Maybe drop the whole no santa claus thing too?

[bcoop]

My son has outgrown it so he passed out candy at my parent's house. I took my daughter trick or treating in her Mom's neighborhood. Streets were pretty bare, and roughly every third house had the lights on. When I got home, not a single house had their lights on in my neighborhood. But there are only 2-3 houses on my street that have kids.

A week ago my daughter informed me that she wasn't going trick or treating because someone told her it was evil. I came unglued with the ex. Believe what you want but let the kids be kids. Fucking horseshit.