Re: Halloween crap for kids



Doug Kanter wrote:
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> >> I'm tired of giving out candy, and nobody wants apples because they
> >> all have razor blades or cyanide in them. Anyone have any interesting
> >> alternatives? I was thinking condoms, but I suspect that could meet
> >> with resistance from parents.
> >
> > Every year I buy bag after bag of candy and get about 3 trick or treaters.
> > That just means more candy for me. I've already bought bags of snickers,
> > milky way bars, gummy eyeballs and something unidentifiable with Sponge
> > Bob
> > on it. Steven is already eating up the candy bars.
> >
> > We've gotten a couple of new families. There might be a total of 7 trick
> > or
> > treaters this year. I bought 10 children's admission tickets to The Magic
> > House in Kirkwod for the neighborhood kids. The candy bars will never see
> > Halloween. The eyeballs and Sponge Bob will be reserved for any stray
> > goblins that might make their way up the long, very dark street.
> >
> > Michael
>
> In my previous neighborhood, we once had 4 limousines park, and a couple of
> dozen large teenagers poured out. This was around 10:00 at night. Some of
> them had the lamest lines imaginable, like "You gots any extra candy for my
> baby sister? She's home." Mostly, we told them "You have to be present to
> win". After an hour of this nonsense, I dropped a "NY State Fishing
> Regulations" booklet in someone's bag. He made a nasty remark and I grabbed
> the baseball bat that waits behind the door on Halloween. That was one
> really fast teenager. Got down the street in about 3 seconds. :)

We shut off our lights at about 8:15. After that it's just the older
kids with no costumes anyway. Our visitors start about 6:15 and two
hours is plenty of time to canvas our area. We enjoy seeing the little
ones but it irritates the h''ll out of me to get a 14 year old, no
costume and a big pillow case.....Sharon
.

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