Screw Politics; Tonight I had Cheerleaders, Cowboys, Monsters, Princesses, ...

[Botany]

... a Batman, Fairy Princesses, and other visit my house in the Clintonville area
of Columbus, OH. I had a fire going in a "burner" and my lab out to say "hi."
I ran out of candy w/ the last kids.

The pure joy of youth is priceless.


In the words of Frank Burns of T.V.'s MASH ... "It is nice to be nice to the nice."

[babylonsister]

1. "It is nice to be nice to the nice." That's

nice! :silly: We haven't had one kid yet. More for me (not so nice)! ;-)

[TahitiNut]

2. In the last group was a kid with a posterboard of Junior's Brain ...

... and showing amny of the stupidest things the Fecal Fuhrer has said (e.g. "misunderestimate"). Needless to say, I gave him double candy. The whole group was impressive ... eight 9th grade (I'm guessing) students, all of whom were remarkably bright and quick-witted. (I tease and converse with all the kids.) I'd guess it was the Honor Roll out on a lark. Terrific kids!

(I love Halloween.)

[bdamomma]

17. I love Halloween, my kids do too, they start planning what

they going to be the 1st week of October!!

[peacebird]

3. Love the jack-o-lantern! Trick or treaters, it's the only thing I miss about living in the city

We used to have so many little ones drop by to ring the bell, and shuffle and stammer as a voice in the darkness prompted them to say "Trick or Treat!"

It was a sweet time, tonight I walked out in the orchard and looked up at the moon and stars. No knocks on the door, our nearest neighbors all to few and far inbetween to bring us wandering goblins and ghouls, ghosts and pirates.....

[EnviroBat]

4. We had a really nice group up here in Blendon Township too!

Nice kids. I scared a few with my monster looking out the basement window routine. This has been my first Halloween as a home owner and it was really great!

[NC_Nurse]

5. I got a couple of little Mexican Princesses, a Princess Leia,

an evil jester, and a wizard. I hope to get some more....they're so cute! :D

[Jane Austin]

9. We had an evil jester, too.

What's that about?

[NC_Nurse]

12. Must be a character on a kids show...

?:-)

[Faygo Kid]

6. I had six kids visit. Terrible. Weather beautiful, too.

I found my sorry old curmudgeonly behind surprisingly disappointed. My daughter is 31, and lives a thousand miles away, and I can't take her trick or treating anymore (sigh). Wonderful for about 10 years, though, from the late 70s to the late 80s. Then there was college. Three parties a night, and that party in 1974 at college when I dressed as a lumberjack and I met this drop-dead gorgeous girl dressed as a nun - well, we all deserve a few memories like that. And as a kid, when Mom (God rest her soul) made up some of the most elaborate hobo costumes for my little brother and I - no store bought stuff for us. We had no money, but the holidays - any holiday - was the best.

Anyway, I derived great joy from the six who showed here. All girls, and I thought of my daughter. They got a LOT of candy, by the way.

Happy Halloween, everybody.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

7. Gee! I've had some of those visitors here in NY and also Dorothy with a real live Toto, the Grim

Reaper, Skeletal Pirates, Cows, Pumpkins, and bunches other. I live in a condo complex and I get lots and lots of kids here. We sometimes get teenage stragglers so I'm waiting until 9PM to let two of my cats up for dinner.

Seeing all these ghoulies and ghosties and long legged beasties was so much more refreshing than watching cable news. Then the dark part of me is so sad as most of these beautiful babes don't have a clue as to what is being planned and screwed up for their future.

[Jane Austin]

8. I'm with you and Frank Burns, Botany.

I'm at my mother's house in town and we've had about ten groups - mostly little bitty kids with their parents just beyond the circle of light.

I have way too much candy and little bags of animal crackers and pretzels, and they've all been very polite - waitimg for me to pick out something for them, and I have to encourage them to take more than one.

Better them than me, right?

Miss Rocket (ten-year-old grandmother of my puppy avatar) greets everybody and usually walks out to see the parents, too. :)

We've had lots of pirates, a couple of ninjas, two soldiers in camoflage, several devils, a Thomas the Tank Engine and an adorable little surgeon.

This has been fun.

I wish every kid in the world had adults so glad to see their sweet faces and funny costumes.

[maddezmom]

10. We just had a group collecting non-perishables for a local food bank

:) That was a first for me and was happy to go thru my pantry. Good on those kids.

[Jane Austin]

14. We had those, too.

They'd left a grocery bag and a flyer earlier, and picked the full bag up sometime between trick-or-treaters.

It was a fraternity, I think.

[madrchsod]

11. not very many this year

really nice weather here in ronnyland..oh well more candy for me!

[LWolf]

13. While I don't get trick or treaters in my isolated little corner called home,

I did see my grandson off on his way into town to trick or treat on main street. Tradition for more rural places.

I never got to compliment his costume. He was busy arguing because his dad made him put a coat on over it.

It's COLD on the last day in October in our region.

[eleny]

15. Our neighborhood has been taken over by pirates tonight!

The last one didn't even carry a sack - she had a treasure chest! I'm loving this.

[133724]

16. We haven't had kids for about 15 years

too many problems with razorblades in apples and the like....

Now everything is done at the mall...

before all of that we used to have 100 to 150 kids...




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[Alcibiades]

19. Too many people imagining razorblades in apples

My apologies if you already know this, but the whole poisoned candy, razorblades in apples thing did turn out to be an urban myth. Here's one of tha many debunkers of this sad, sad myth that has really hurt Halloween traditions in many places:

http://thefolklorist.com/horror/candy.htm

Where I live, certain wacko nutjob denominations (I won't engage in a slur against a whole group here, suffice it to say that it rhymes with "smothern crappist") also exploit the "Halloween is unsafe" meme, luring innocent kiddies into their rumpus rooms for their competing holiday, something like "Jesusoween" or some such nonsense. Their real motivation, of course, is that 20 years or so ago they all decided Halloween was of the debil.

The funny thing is, while data going back to 1958 record no fatalities involving strangers passing out tampered goodies at Halloween, there really is danger. Researchers at Michigan have found that the rate of pedestrian traffic deaths for kids under 15 increases 4.5 times on and around Halloween, which means that 3 kids die a year from being hit by cars than would be the case without Halloween.

http://www.umich.edu/~urecord/0506/Oct31_05/24.shtml

[wicket]

18. I left a big bowl of candy out with a note to "help yourselves"

I brought it inside a little while ago & it was almost completely devoured :D

[TwilightGardener]

20. Hardly had any kids this year. More Reeses and Kit Kats for me and Mr. Wienerdoggie.

edit to add: my boys are 13 and eleven, they just prowled around town with their buddies doing God knows what. Didn't come back with any candy.