Did you have trick or treaters? (sort of a rant)

[El Ravager]

Wow... adults and hooligans have truly sucked all the fun out of Halloween.

Truth. Halloween just don't seem right anymore. Kids have to go out trick or treating in daylight... and not even on the actual Halloween eve.

Just seems wrong.

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El Rav

 

[tarchon]

Apartment complexes and even condos don't get anywhere near as many, because we're not good people.

 

[DaveStebbins]

We have specific hours around here (6-8 PM on Halloween for most of the area, except a couple of nearby counties). My apartment complex has auto-locking fire doors at the entrance to every floor, so I went to a buddy's house on the edge of the city. He and I both dressed up for it and so did his daughter and her two friends, who all spent the evening having fun running around the yard screaming and throwing leaves at each other.

We must have had between 100 and 150 kids. He had a strict policy: no costume got you an eraser instead of candy. I don't think any of the no-costume kids noticed, as we never even got a dirty look. Even a bad attempt at a costume was good enough to get candy. Excellent costumes got a handful. We didn't mind older kids showing up, many of them obviously worked at their costumes and we gave out praise freely. We even had the girls running out to hand treats to the parents who stayed out on the sidewalk.

We also had a bit of fun. He has a fog machine which would shoot out a jet of fog when we pressed a button. We set it down behind us and made lots of the kids jump. We didn't try to scare the really little kids and almost all the ones we did use it on smiled; many hung around to watch us use it again.

-Dave

 

[Algolei]

I was a big kid, too, but I trick-or-treated until I was 13 (the magick number for your last Halloween trick-or-treat, dontcha know? ).

I stopped at 18.

But then, I had a lot of really short friends who could pass for 12 if they wore full masks. I just threw a sheet over my head and pretended I was somebody's unwilling older brother.

 

[WayneLigon]

I go to some friends and help them with their haunting. They do a nice production, with an iron fence (cunningly painted PVC pipe with hot-glued fillials, which thus look welded on) around the yard, which has been turned into a graveyard; the archway over the driveway; the mad scientists lab (this year with his 'sister's' head on a box), and the talking headstone by the candy (scavanged Talking Douglas Fir parts, Crayola clay, and more painting - someone was inside doing the voices and making the headstone react to people - that was good for a few shocks as people realized it wasn't a tape....).

They've been doing this for about three years now in the new house and they counted over 350 kids, adults and teens coming by this year.

 

[Krieg]

They've been doing this for about three years now in the new house and they counted over 350 kids, adults and teens coming by this year.

Is that number average for the neighborhood, or do people make the trip just to see the production?