Halloween experiences

We had 27 human trick-or-treaters - the most we've had here - and one canine one - Henry, the mini schnauzer, swiveled his head when I called down "I have treats for canine trick-or-treaters" and beat his human to the top of the stairs by 6 steps! :)

I wore a greyhound mask and a collar, and told adults to vote Yes on # (banning commercial greyhound racing). All little kids this year, only one that was even a teenager, but she's just next door, and the four younger siblings left without her, so she was running to catch up to them! Three princesses, a little monkey (being carried by mom), several pirates, Darth Vader, a ninja, cowboys and two little ones dressed as doggies who liked my mask a whole lot! :) I let kids take two or three pieces of candy as they have to climb a full flight of stairs to get to the porch. Several of the kids only took one, and most said "trick or treat!" without prompting, and only one little one - maybe 4 years old - needed a prompt to say "Thank you!" Everyone else remember the thanks and many called out "Happy Halloween!" as they were leaving.

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Originally Posted by Cinder & Smoke

OMG! :D

Tell me you had someone take pictures, please!
You *HAD* to have someone take *snappies* ... please POST 'em!

Did she get any Apples?
Happie Horse-a-Ween, Summer!
;)

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Not the best one, but ...

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g2.../06resized.jpg

I wanted to make her a mummy but today was just too crazy for me to get out there in time. Maybe next year!

OH my gosh!! Summer is so cute as a ghost!! :D :D

We had a total of two trick or treaters. One was our neighbors little girl (I didn't see her so I don't even know what she was dressed as) and another little boy had a ghouly mask on (I'm not sure who it was).

But we were having a small get together tonight (I thought). There is about 10 people in my house and I only know about half of them. And here I am in here on the computer. LOL

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Originally Posted by caseysmom

By the way tons of kids said "have a nice halloween" and I even heard one kid tell another kid, "you didn't say thank you to her".

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Same here... they were all so polite... except some of the really little ones who were shy and wouldn't even look at me hehe.

We had one little guy... SOOOOO cute. he was spider man. He could barely talk but he came up and said "trick or treat" and then said "thank you"... Man I just wanted to give him the whole bowl of candy. he was so adorable

I should begin by saying that the majority of the kids were polite, most of them saying 'thank you' and several saying 'Happy Halloween". However, I'd say that at least 25% of them had no costume and they weren't teenagers who just wanted treats; they were young kids. They'd come up to the door and stand there. So I'd joke w/them and say "May I help you?" and the usual answer was "yes" and I'd say "Well, what is it that you want?" and rather than say "Trick or treat", they'd say "Candy!" I don't know if their parents didn't prepare them or what but I found it odd and it happens every year. Twix is always the candy of choice and I heard one boy say as he was leaving "She is always so generous. She's the Twix lady". LOL

I have gargoyles on each side of my front porch year round and one kid who looked to be around 12 or 13 said "I like your dogs". :eek:

I ran out of candy again this year but, thankfully, the trick or treaters were finished w/yet a half hour to go. It was from 6-8 but the first beggar showed up at 6:30 and by 7:30 I was out of candy. I can't seem to calculate it right. Last year I had candy left over.

My neighbor dressed as a scarecrow and hung himself to his lamppost and when the kids came near, he screeched at them. You should've heard the screams! He came to my door afterwards and said "It's me, Adam. I just wanted you to know why there was so much screaming". Well, it is Halloween so I didn't think anything of it.

It started at about 6.15 and about 160 kids later, I was done with the candy. It's was about 8.20 when I turned the lights off.
I made little goodie pouches, that's how I know how many kids we had. I was very happy to see that only 2 parents were lame enough to have thier own basket, compared to last year, when we had 1/2 kids, 1/2 parents.

I went to a party/sleepover at a friends house, she lives right next to a church/graveyard which was quite good for halloween... I was a dead person and my friend made it look like I had a cut throat by using red eyeliner..... we went outside and watched some fireworks by the church and played some halloween games etc... didnt get to sleep till 5am...

It was fun- the best part? My friends dogs! She has a big old English sheep dog and a gorgeous little bichon frise.... :love::D

My costume
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...cture011-1.jpg
Can you guess who I was? :D

The scary house I was talking about before. This was the guy I was scared of:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...Picture025.jpg

Their mini graveyard-
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...Picture031.jpg

Sigh...I wish I had as good of an experence as everyone else lol.

First off I had to work *yay* but really it wasn't a huge deal. I got on shift at midnight *I work security at a shopping center* and the bar is having a pary. The crowd was mellow and the bar manager is a nice guy and makes sure the place never gets out of hand. They wrap everything up and go home at about 4 am. I was checking around one of the lower levels about an hour later when I heard yelling outside and saw a pumpkin fly right over one of the gates, BREAKING part of the gate off :mad:. I check around the immediate area and didn't find anything so I went to the other side of the bulding to check and found SMASHED pumpkins all over the place :mad::mad:. Then I found hay bales *they were used as decorations for the shopping center* drug into the middle of the street. :mad::mad::mad:

Why do people have to be destructive? When I got off shift at 6 no one had broken any windows and I hope that between then and now nothing else happened. It doesn't start getting light out until about 7 and its really cloudy so it was still pretty dark until right about now. It makes me so mad that someone felt the need to make a huge mess that people are going to have to clean up and damaged property on top of it all.

Sigh...

We always have good Halloween experiences. I live in a very small town, and everyone knows everyone. All the kids go to all the houses, they are always polite and cute. I have never seen or heard of any vandalism here.

One little girl, probably three years old, runs up to the door and throws her arms out and says, "I am SPIDERWOMAN!" It was adorable.

I had a great Halloween experience. In the morning Missy, Austin, Quinn and I went to Jump For Joy, the local inflatable party center, and had a costume party there. We had SUCH an amazing time.

Then that evening my hubby and I took Quinn to Missy's house and we trick-or-treated in their military housing complex. It was a great neighborhood to trick or treat in and it was just absolutely loaded with kids and even dogs dressed up.

Quinn said trick or treat (which sounded more like "tick teet") and that was just so adorable. She was brave enough to walk, with her little candy basket, up to strangers and say trick or treat. She then was amazing at saying "thank you" (which sounds more like "eye dee") to not only the person who handed her a candy, but to mommy and daddy after each house we visited. I thought it was cute that people understood her "thank you". We then went to Quinn's Nana's house and hung out there for a bit.

Missy and her boys, Tyler and Austin, are the cutest little boys and are always such a joy to hang out with.

It was a fun day AND night.

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Originally Posted by Karen

We had 27 human trick-or-treaters - the most we've had here - and one canine one - Henry, the mini schnauzer, swiveled his head when I called down "I have treats for canine trick-or-treaters" and beat his human to the top of the stairs by 6 steps! :)

I wore a greyhound mask and a collar, and told adults to vote Yes on # (banning commercial greyhound racing).

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LOL, I heard of Halloween being commercialized, but politicized?;)


MY dad passed away on Halloween so it's kinda somber for my family.:(:eek:

Let me tell you about our experience.

October 31 is our anniversary (22 years!) and I wasn't feeling the greatest so we decided not to drive to get to one of our favorite restaurants.
Instead we went to a new place that just opened, Frickers-similar to Hooters unbeknown to me.
Little did I know that all the cute little girls that worked there would be dressed up and so scantly clad:eek:
I mean, Mark's a man and of course he can't help but look when she put her huge boobs right in front of him!
Any other time I wouldn't have minded, but on our Anniversary:rolleyes:

We won't be doing that again!

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Originally Posted by anna_66

Let me tell you about our experience.

October 31 is our anniversary (22 years!) and I wasn't feeling the greatest so we decided not to drive to get to one of our favorite restaurants.
Instead we went to a new place that just opened, Frickers-similar to Hooters unbeknown to me.
Little did I know that all the cute little girls that worked there would be dressed up and so scantly clad:eek:
I mean, Mark's a man and of course he can't help but look when she put her huge boobs right in front of him!
Any other time I wouldn't have minded, but on our Anniversary:rolleyes:

We won't be doing that again!

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Hey he can get his appetite anywhere as long as he comes home for dinner;)

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Originally Posted by anna_66

October 31 is our anniversary (22 years!) :) :D

We went to a new place that just opened, Frickers -
similar to Hooters, unbeknown to me.

Little did I know that all the cute little girls that worked there
would be dressed up and so scantly clad :eek:

We won't be doing that again!

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< snikker > :D

WHAT ~ Mark dint *tell* ya?? :p

HEY ~ There's a Frickers in Findlay!
We could all drop in after the next Gathurin.

;)

PS: HAPPIE Anniversary!! :) :love:

(Hope Mark's allowed to celebrate #23!)