Not much fun anymore.

[DeathGrip]

I ran out of Halloween candy the other day and remembered to get some today. It was easy to remember because the Halloween displays have been up since before Labor Day.

I grabbed a bag of Musketeers and threw them in my cart. There the bag sat on the counter until just now and I thought one would be good.

I swear they made them smaller.

 

[dben002]

The anticipation is almost unbearable...starting in late July I go to Wal-Mart every night searching for candy corn. Feeling depressed and unloved every night they have not put it out yet.

 

[fiasconva]

We have to wait until the last minute to buy our Halloween candy or there won't be any left for the trick-or-treaters. The boss-lady doesn't have much will power when it comes to those little chocolates.

 

[the ringo kid]

I ran out of Halloween candy the other day and remembered to get some today. It was easy to remember because the Halloween displays have been up since before Labor Day.

I grabbed a bag of Musketeers and threw them in my cart. There the bag sat on the counter until just now and I thought one would be good.

I swear they made them smaller.

You must have bought "bite size" instead of "fun size." Bite size is smaller than fun size-though not by much.

 

[Sayoc01]

I don't buy candy,haven't had any kids come by in 2 yrs!

 

[Doug627]

I'm making broccoli Jello to pass out this year.

 

[the ringo kid]

I don't buy candy,haven't had any kids come by in 2 yrs!

Whoo "needs" any kids to come by? to buy candy.

 

[the ringo kid]

I'm making broccoli Jello to pass out this year.

You and my sister would get along just fine. She hands out toothbrushes.

 

[DeathGrip]

You must have bought "bite size" instead of "fun size." Bite size is smaller than fun size-though not by much.

Nope, Fun size.

 

[DeathGrip]

Whoo "needs" any kids to come by? to buy candy.

A bag or, I guess two now will last me most of the year.

I'd still have some left if that mover kid didn't make pig of himself.

 

[the ringo kid]

Nope, Fun size.

That really is sad news.

 

[the ringo kid]

A bag or, I guess two now will last me most of the year.

I'd still have some left if that mover kid didn't make pig of himself.

Not with me. I buy a bag-3 pieces is usually the recommended seving. If it has enough for say-10 servings? it MIGHT last me about a week. I buy the largest bag possible so's I dont run out as quickly.

 

[zonker5]

I'm making broccoli Jello to pass out this year.

My favorite is the guy who takes the gold foil chocolate wrappers and puts them around Brussels Sprouts.

 

[4011]

Saw those bags of candy corn at the store the other day. Is it wrong to lust for candy?

 

[Alpo]

Saw some Peeps at Publix yesterday.

I think they were candycorn flavored.

It scared me.

 

[Salty RI]

I'm making broccoli Jello to pass out this year.

Even you wouldn't eat that.

 

[Tom S.]

Buy M&M's. One bag takes care of a lot of trick or treaters, unless of course you get crazy and start giving out more than one at a time.

 

[Onomea]

I have read that in England you can buy deep fried Mars bars.

(Just sayin'.)

 

[Vulcan Bob]

Halloween brings back many pleasant memories from my inner ten year old! Now pushing 63 I still get a kick out of the kids enjoying themselves. For one reason or other we do not get near the kids anymore so my sweet tooth gets rewarded especially since I always buy the candy I like.

 

[GKC]

My favorite is the guy who takes the gold foil chocolate wrappers and puts them around Brussels Sprouts.

There was an episode of "Everybody Loves Raymond" where the old man was handing out candy while Ray and his wife and kids were out trick or treating. He ran out of candy and found a bag of foil wrapped condoms and thought they were candy, so he handed those out. Complaints ensued!

 

[DeathGrip]

Halloween brings back many pleasant memories from my inner ten year old! Now pushing 63 I still get a kick out of the kids enjoying themselves. For one reason or other we do not get near the kids anymore so my sweet tooth gets rewarded especially since I always buy the candy I like.

Snubbyfan put up a video of Halloween last year in Paw Paw West Virginia.

It really made me smile. Nothing like small town America.

 

[bigride]

I wear no costume to answer the door. Still scare the kids.

Just pretend this is witty.

 

[soFlaNative]

I wear no costume to answer the door. Still scare the kids.

Just pretend this is witty.

Since when is a circus peanut not a costume?

 

[dben002]

I used to hide in the shrubs beside the car in the drive way and jump out as the kids walked buy wearing a black hood.

Had to stop as one little girl took off screaming.
Still to this day don't know if she ever stopped or they found her.

All the other kids and parents got a kick out of it and their game was to figure out where I would be hiding (did this routine for years so it and I were well known in the neighborhood.

PS.....we did find the little girl...I gave her a whole basket of candy.......

 

[M E Morrison]

I used to hide in the shrubs beside the car in the drive way and jump out as the kids walked buy wearing a black hood.

Had to stop as one little girl took off screaming.
Still to this day don't know if she ever stopped or they found her.

All the other kids and parents got a kick out of it and their game was to figure out where I would be hiding (did this routine for years so it and I were well known in the neighborhood.

PS.....we did find the little girl...I gave her a whole basket of candy.......

One year I did this for an adult party while dressed like a werewolf. One guy picked up his little bitty girlfriend & stuck her between him and me while he turned & hauled butt. She was furious that he'd sacrifice her, didn't do much for his reputation at work either....

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

My kids and the kids in my neighborhood have no idea why anyone would actually walk around looking for candy when there is so much sitting at Wall Mart. We have almost no Trick or Treaters now and sometimes just do not bother. Churches in the area have "safe" Halloween parties on their lawns and give out handfuls after handful of candy to everyone there. Most people who do anything go there. Halloween as I knew as a kid is dead here.

 

[Marshwheeling]

Kids don't come around here for Halloween any more. My yard is pretty scary. Not Halloween scary, genuinely scary.

 

[BUFF]

A few years ago, I was at the grocery store a few nights before Halloween and had picked up the traditional bags of treats/bribes and was waiting in the checkout line. The people in front of me were a couple probably close to my age (early 60's) and the husband was fairly well toasted. He was somewhat loudly complaining to his wife/girlfriend how Halloween had declined in quality since he had been a kid, the costumes, the tricks, the expectations. He said, "What are we giving the little *******s this year?" and grabbed a couple of the bags of candy from their cart and held them up to examine them. They were indeed the miniature candy bars being discussed in this thread. Out loud, he reads, "Fun size. FUN SIZE!?!?" He drops one bag back into the cart and tears open the other, and then extracts a tiny "fun size" Almond Joy. "What the hell is so FUN about a candy bar shrunk down to barely feed one tiny diabetic rat? HOW FUN IS THAT!?!? When WE were kids, if some cheapskate gave us one of these FUN SIZE pieces of ****, he'd be scrubbing eggs off his car and house for a week!"

As drunks often are, he didn't realize other people could hear what he was saying, and he was only directing his minor rant to his female companion, but the cute teenage checker girl, myself and several others within earshot were cracking up discreetly.

The woman said, curtly, "Shut up, Harold, and eat the dammm candy bar."

He complained, "I can't eat this! It's an Almond Joy! It has NUTS! Almond Joy has NUTS!"

She was visibly irritated at this point, and I expected her to just yell at him to shut up or something. But to my surprise, with just a hint of malice in her voice, she said, "Harold! Almond Joy has nuts! Mounds don't! Eat a Mounds, you drunken idiot, shut up, let me pay for the groceries and we're late for the party."

She paid, the checker rang them up and bagged them and the couple pushed the cart towards the big doors.. The rest of us were smiling and as the couple got out of earshot, the cute checker girl picked up a bag of mine, held it up high and sang, just like the jingle, "BECAUSE..."

Me and the 40-ish couple behind me, strangers to each other all, sang out, "SOMETIMES YOU FEEL LIKE A NUT, SOMETIMES YOU DON'T!!"

Some common threads of modern American culture are strong, indeed.

 

[timn8er]

Even you wouldn't eat that.

Maybe with some cheese sauce?

 

[NYlakesider]

I live out a ways in the boonies, we have a 1/4 mile long hilly curvy driveway. The nearest kid lives at least 4 miles from my house. Lived her 14 years never had a trick or treater yet, doubt this year will be different! We buy no candy as then I would end up eating it and I'm fluffy enough now!


Now when I lived in the large suburban area for over 25 years we had kids by the dozens. One year we had over a 100, yes we kept track. It got to the point that the town declared 9 PM was a cut off point as it was not usual to have older kids showing up at 11 or later. (and there were other problems at those hours also)