OT - How many treaters?

[Stormin Mormon]

I had 24 trick or treaters, tonight.

I didn't keep track, but it was mostly the standard costumes. Jack the ripper, pumpkin face, and so on. One girl maybe 13 or so in a power wheel chair. I offered to come out and hand the treat to her, but Mom took it and put in the bag.

About 8 PM, started to rain.

Some of the kids were only 3 or 4 years old. Makes you wonder what they get out of it. I'd say they looked totally confused. One boy, about 3 years old, I handed him raisins. I still had some in my other hand, and he was cluelessly reaching for them. I reached back out to shake, and his hand was very cold. I'm not sure he got much out of the evening.

After 8 PM we had the teenagers come out. The last treater looked about 10, girl. With people in a car out by the curb. That's common, to have someone out at the street, in a car.

I bought 60 boxes of raisins (ounce and a half size). Gave out 25 or so, leaving.... 35 left? I'll have something to eat for lunch, next week.

[JimT]

I just had a couple of MILFs drop by (with their kids).

Jim

[gfretwell]

It was really slow. Maybe because this was a school night. Now I am stuck with about 10 pounds of candy. I was giving it away by the handfuls. Last year we had over 100 kids.

[The Henchman]

After 8 PM we had the teenagers come out. The last treater looked about 10, girl. With people in a car out by the curb. That's common, to have someone out at the street, in a car.

I bought 60 boxes of raisins (ounce and a half size). Gave out 25 or so, leaving.... 35 left? I'll have something to eat for lunch, next week.

[Ed Pawlowski]

"Stormin Mormon" wrote

I like raisins and I'd be happy to get them as a treat. They are, however, on the top 10 list of things kids don't want. They don't want Tootsie Pops or other taffies either. They want chocolate.

[Dean Hoffman]

Aren't you supposed to give kids stuff full of chocolate, sugar.......and caffeine? They need to stay awake to stuff down all their loot after all.

[DerbyDad03]

I spent too many hours over the past week decorating the front yard for not enough Trick or Treaters. 35 or so.

My HS Senior daughter went to a different neighborhood with some friends and said that there was nobody out compared to other years.

Cold and rainy, school night, etc.

It's too bad 'cuz the yard looks great! The few families that came by all said so, as did the people in a few cars that stopped just to look.

The day wasn't wasted though. My daughter's indoor softball league had their first game today. A 5 - 1 victory for what will basically be our Varsity team this year. It felt good to back on the field with a score book in my hands.

[Ned Flanders]

79... I started the night giving out 2 candies per kid, I started to panic cause I only had 150 treats so I switched to 1 per kid.

Now I have about 50 treats left for myself :)

[krw]

We only had ten this year. We live in a small subdivision, not big enough to draw the caravans. The nitwits in the city council declared last Thursday night to be Halloween and the high school moved the football game to Thursday night so it was a bust all around.

[aemeijers]

No MILFs, but a couple of 14yo or so females that didn't look anything at all like I remember the girls in my 8th or 9th grade looking. WHAT are they feeding them these days? I hope they made a short night of it- the way they were dressed (cross between Hee Haw and and Beale Street), they had to be cold.

[norminn]

We had no tot's at all - kids at home, but it is a long way from house to house on our street, so didn't bother. Left lights off. No t-p-ing or other vandalism. Halloween has always been a good experience for me

- changed a lot, beginning with razor blades in apples and all that stuff. Only the older teens come by without parents. If not tiny tots, the children come to the door while parents/adults wait at the sidewalk. Many adults seem to make it a group activity.

When I was growing up in Chicago, our neighborhood was all apartment buildings....one trip around the block occupied the whole evening and filled our treat bags. Many treats were home-made taffy apples, caramel corn balls, etc. Plenty of nickels. One apartment on the block had a party every year...kids would gather and as soon as the living room filled, the spooky stuff began....scary records with ghost sounds, passing around "body parts" while the story played...olives for eyeballs, spaghetti for veins, etc. Never heard my parents express fear for our safety, other than to tell us that if we stayed out after dark, "the man with the bag" would get us. Stayed out with my brother at the park one evening, fading twilight, when we saw a guy on the park bench with a large duffel bag....that was it! Home before dark until I wised up to my parents' stories.

[Stormin Mormon]

Yes, that makes you wonder about last year's resident of the house. I'm glad the kids were polite. Same, here. Everyone had good manners. The kids in the 2 and 3 year old range looked mostly bewildered and confused.

[Stormin Mormon]

Walmart has chocolate bars, 6 for $2. The kids would likely have enjoyed those more. Maybe the news got out. "Ugh... raisins.... avoid this guy...."

[Stormin Mormon]

You are so right. Next year, do you think I should set up an expresso machine, and serve cups of steaming hot coffee? I could go to the truck stop, and get a lot of those rip open packs of No-Doz, and give those out, too.

Well, it's fun to joke about. Then, about 11 PM when Mommies and Daddies want to go to bed, the kids are still wide eyed, and running around the house.

[Stormin Mormon]

Yes, that sounds disappointing. Glad your daughter's team won.

[Stormin Mormon]

Wow, that's a child rich environment. Glad someone had treaters.

[Stormin Mormon]

I hope you vote the useless fools out.

[John]

I'm in Ottawa, where it snowed... and stayed... not at all normal for us. We took advantage though, and my daughter and I built a snowman and we put a scary mask on it to greet our guests. (though I was shown a picture today of a snowman which had a Jack-O-Lantern as its head... wish I had thought of that...).

With all that, we only got four groups of kids (around six in each group), which is way under par for us to.

John

[Charlie]

In a previous location we had a dad who would show up with a shot glass and announce "Trick or Drink"

Charlie

[Arthur Shapiro]

Likewise...I always purchase two 24-packs of pre-bagged cheese popcorn. (Everyone gives out candy, so this is a little different and usually goes across well.) Used up one of the packs, leaving 24 bags that we'll gobble down over the next week or so.

I can't stand the little bastards, so I'm happy to purcahse the stuff as long as my wife does the giveaway routine. I sat channel-flipping between the World Series and the night football game, safely out of the way.

Art