We had 350+ kids come through tonight and had to shut down. We ran out of candy. There were some very good costumes this year, they really used their imaginations. I told her we didn't have enough candy. LOL..............
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We had 350+ kids come through tonight and had to shut down. We ran out of candy. There were some very good costumes this year, they really used their imaginations. I told her we didn't have enough candy. LOL..............
I would move.
I took my 3.5 year old granddaughter out trick-or-treating for her first time. She tagged along with her 2nd cousin. Can anyone guess her character?
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I can't get enough...She is sooo damned cute, she has me wrapped around her finger.
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That's their job, and they do it very, very well. She's a cutie.
OK, I don't know but I suspect it has to do with a children's character that has a helmet for hair?
I kid, I haven't a clue. I was a cow lick until age 13.
Nobody trick or treats around here anymore except for very young children and they are escorted by their parents and mainly trick or treat only at the homes of people they know from school or whom the parents are friends with. Older kids don't trick or treat anymore. They just walk around the neighborhood in large throngs talking on their cell phones, texting each other, and squirting shave cream at each other. The most original costume I saw yesterday was this one little girl dresses up as a crayon. It was so cute.
In the old days of my youth a lot of older kids used to go trick or treating. There was a lot of hard drinking, fights and vandalism. Homes were egged or spray painted and people who were out walking alone were egged and spray painted and even attacked and beaten. Sometimes you would just stop and break something for no reason other than the fact that it was there. A friend of mine nicknamed "The Insect" devised a system where he attached some extra hose to a fire extinguisher and ran the hose through the engine compartment of his car and out the front grill at which point he attached a nozzle. As he drove around when he encountered a group of people he would point the car at them and squeeze the handle on the extinguisher blasting everyone in his path with water. Only problem was that there wasn't enough pressure left after the first few blasts. We were thinking of devising a system that ran off a pump and a refillable reservoir but we graduated and lost interest in Halloween. M-80's, Ash-Cans, and Block Busters were a staple part of every Halloween.Then there was this one guy we knew who used to dress up in drag every Halloween and this girl who used to dress herself to look like a ho.
One Halloween me and my brother stuck a fluorescent tube in the ground near the sidewalk and attached it to an ignition coil and a transformer and ran the whole thing up to the window. The idea was that someone walks by and we turn it on and they see this discarded fluorescent tube mysteriously light up. At one point during the evening my brother turned the thing on but accidentally forgot to shut it. After a while the ignition coil overheated and started smoking like crazy and leaking oil. he wound up disconnecting it and throwing the whole thing out the window.
Halloween these days can't hold a candle to the Halloweens of yesteryear.
Halloween is also my Dad's birthday.
We had a banner year.Quote:
Originally Posted by NA4BH
14.
That's up from 12 last year, according to the boss.
Little Miss Field Day informed us that she's "too old" at 15, besides, none of the other kids in the neighborhood in her age group go out. Pity.
Meanwhile, around the corner in Mount Lebanon, there were a lot more kids walking around, including a lot of teenagers. I pointed this out to her, but she felt awkward about it, and I didn't push it.
John, you should have used a simple theremin. Small speakers strategically planted in concealed areas. Disguise the trigger rods by using a downspout gutter or whatever nearby metal work. When people walk near the field .... EERIE!
we had 0. like last year and the year before.
but this isnt the 90s anymore and the city has been taken over by thugs and crackheads