How Was Your Halloween?

[mudwhistle]

Yesterday I was going to take a break from painting and put up some Halloween decorations, but it started raining around 3pm. I was hoping it would pass us by, but it kept drizzling till around 11pm.

No parent is going to let kids go out in that kind of weather.

Course, when I was a kid I was running from house to house in a snowstorm, so rain was nothing to me.

Not one kid showed up....and I was ready this time, unlike last year.

I had my garbageman costume on and I was going to hand out store bought popcorn balls, ghoulish rice crispy treats, and several other goodies.

Last year only a couple dozen kids showed up and I was lucky that I bought $10 bag of candy.

This year I had everything.....and got JACK-SQUAT!!!

 

[Baron]

I don't celebrate satanic feasts.
Only idiots do it

 

[ZestolPastilevsky]

I live in Europe so...it was fucking lame. No trick or treaters, no candy, no spooky decorations.

 

[The Duke]

I stopped buying candy years ago. Kids don't trick-or-treat my street.
They'd have to walk 400%-800% more to do the houses around here.
I had a couple..in a couple decades.
I had teh candy, though! Yes I did! And the ones that came, I gave 'em extra, cuz I knew there weren't going to be many more.

 

[The Duke]

I live in Europe so...it was fucking lame. No trick or treaters, no candy, no spooky decorations.

Europe doesn't do Halloween?

 

[22lcidw]

I live in Europe so...it was fucking lame. No trick or treaters, no candy, no spooky decorations.

Trick or Treating is nothing as compared to years ago. Still exists in different neighborhoods in local areas. It seems to be more of an adult thing.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

Halloween trick or treating has died out as a cultural custom.
We haven't had Trick-or-Treaters on Halloween in over 10 years.
The question is why has this custom died off?
When I was a kido in the 60s, Halloween was pandemonium excitement for kids.
Our neighborhood was crawling with a parade of kids.

 

[Baron]

no spooky decorations.

no demons, too sad
Right?

 

[ZestolPastilevsky]

no demons, too sad
Right?

Spooky decorations are not demons.

 

[mudwhistle]

I don't celebrate satanic feasts.
Only idiots do it

Don't beat around the bush.

Tell me how you really feel.

 

[mudwhistle]

no demons, too sad
Right?

I try to keep the Satanic ritualistic sacrifices to a minimum.....but handing out candy to rot the kids teeth isn't a crime.

 

[LuckyDuck01!]

Yesterday I was going to take a break from painting and put up some Halloween decorations, but it started raining around 3pm. I was hoping it would pass us by, but it kept drizzling till around 11pm.

No parent is going to let kids go out in that kind of weather.

Course, when I was a kid I was running from house to house in a snowstorm, so rain was nothing to me.

Not one kid showed up....and I was ready this time, unlike last year.

I had my garbageman costume on and I was going to hand out store bought popcorn balls, ghoulish rice crispy treats, and several other goodies.

Last year only a couple dozen kids showed up and I was lucky that I bought $10 bag of candy.

This year I had everything.....and got JACK-SQUAT!!!

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Despite the heavy rain, there are plenty of kids showing up at the porch every year and this very rainy Halloween one was no exception. At a social gathering on Halloween a couple of years ago, one of the families had immigrated (legally) from Ukraine and their son was all excited and shouted "This is the best Holiday ever!" It's good to see children enjoying a holiday that they can truly embrace and get into various costumes.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

We would get sick eating so much Halloween candy when I was a kid.

 

[ZestolPastilevsky]

I try to keep the Satanic ritualistic sacrifices to a minimum.....but handing out candy to rot the kids teeth isn't a crime.

Very crafty.

 

[mudwhistle]

I live in Europe so...it was fucking lame. No trick or treaters, no candy, no spooky decorations.

I lived in Germany for awhile, so I didn't see them handing out treats, but I did got to a few beerfests.

I had a pretty good time. Octoberfest is in Munich, so I didn't drive down there, but they had some local fests that were plenty fun, and way less crowded.

 

[The Duke]

Trick or Treating is nothing as compared to years ago. Still exists in different neighborhoods in local areas. It seems to be more of an adult thing.

It was so much different when I was a kid.
I think my 2nd time out I was wearing this old-ass really scary looking rubber witch mask, and it seems I happened to walk right into some Klan dudes. They were all quiet. And I asked: How come all y'all are dressed like Casper? No reply, so I kept walking to the next house. No candy, next house..double Snickers bars, baby!

We used to get caramel apples and bags of candy corn that people made up, too.

Then somebody put razor blades into some I guess? So that was off the table forever? Wtf?

"Only accept packaged candy". So..that means people that could make up something nice for

the children and give it to them, now have to buy something from some company to give to the children.

Yeah, I see how that worked now. You can't bake Halloween cookies and give them out now. The

parents'd take that shit away right away, and throw it out. That's fucked up.

That crap transpired during my trick-or-treating days, I'll tell you that.

That was before I read Tom Sawyer and window tacker tricks were pulled.

Those can be done with gum or tape, string, and a nail or a little nut.

 

[Baron]

I try to keep down the Satanic ritualistic sacrifices.....but handing out candy to rot the kids teeth isn't a crime.

Churches are right places to celebrate feasts.
And reading of Holy Bibles is more useful for kids as swallowing of candies

 

[mudwhistle]

Despite the heavy rain, there are plenty of kids showing up at the porch every year and this very rainy Halloween one was no exception. At a social gathering on Halloween a couple of years ago, one of the families had immigrated (legally) from Ukraine and their son was all excited and shouted "This is the best Holiday ever!" It's good to see children enjoying a holiday that they can truly embrace and get into various costumes.

That's exactly how I remember it.

Free candy and you get to dress up.

 

[ZestolPastilevsky]

I lived in Germany for awhile, so I didn't see them handing out treats, but I did got to a few beerfests.

I had a pretty good time. Octoberfest is in Munich, so I didn't drive down there, but they had some local fests that were plenty fun, and way less crowded.

I dunno. Octoberfest to me felt very...commercial. In the same way that Christmas has become very commercial. Halloween is also very commercial...and yet...there's something less cynical about it since the main celebrants are kids.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

Maybe people have stopped trick-or-treating because it's not safe anymore.

Moment Orlando shooter opens fire on crowd before cop takes him down

Jaylen Dwayne Edgar, 17, was arrested after he killed two people and injured six others in downtown Orlando early on Friday, officials said.

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This is the horrifying moment a 17-year-old opened fire on a Halloween crowd in Orlando and killed two, before being taken down by a hero cop.

Jaylen Dwayne Edgar was arrested after he killed two people and injured six others in downtown Orlando early on Friday, officials said.