Not much fun anymore.

Vulcan Bob said:
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.
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Snubbyfan put up a video of Halloween last year in Paw Paw West Virginia.

It really made me smile. Nothing like small town America. :):):)
 
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.......
 
dben002 said:
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.......
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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.... :D
 
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.
 
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.
 
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!:D


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)
 
"Not much fun anymore".............

I must protest....Halloween is a blast...Been in any stores lately....Halloween decorating has grown to a point as large or larger than Christmas and Halloween costumes are selling like a Milt Sparks leather rig at $19.95..........

Around these parts I see some houses with over $1000.00 of Halloween do-dads all over the house and yard..One guy puts up about 8 of those fan blown air thingys and they are large..tombstones all in the yard..orange lights everywere..scary holloween sounds through a speaker in the bushes outside....straw bales and pumpkins all over, skeletons, and ghost hanging from trees.....the full 9 yards.....

So...go get you and Elvira Costume complete with long black wig, and answer the doorbell with a smile and have some fun.....
 
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dben002 said:
"Not much fun anymore".............

I must protest....Halloween is a blast...Been in any stores lately....Halloween decorating has grown to a point as large or larger than Christmas and Halloween costumes are selling like a Milt Sparks leather rig at $19.95..........

Around these parts I see some houses with over $1000.00 of Halloween do-dads all over the house and yard..One guy puts up about 8 of those fan blown air thingys and they are large..tombstones all in the yard..orange lights everywere..scary holloween sounds through a speaker in the bushes outside....straw bales and pumpkins all over, skeletons, and ghost hanging from trees.....the full 9 yards.....

So...go get you and Elvira Costume complete with long black wig, and answer the doorbell with a smile and have some fun.....
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The Fun is the size of the shrinking candy.

I don't need a wig, Some implants maybe.
 
4011 said:
Saw those bags of candy corn at the store the other day. Is it wrong to lust for candy?
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If you turn into one of the Walking Dead? here ya go-you get the best of both world: Candy Corn & Meat.:p
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