Hate halloween

[SkyDog58]

I think you need to work on your "kid terminology," Nate.

0 to 1 = rug rats

1 to 3 = curtain climbers

3 to 12 = yard apes

12+ = vile vicious villainous demons



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I'd pretty much just go with this.

<25 = vile vicious villainous demons

especially the guys

I make very limited short term exceptions for the girls if they are hot and > 18.

 

[RJM62]

And if he becomes roadkill, the parents will no doubt place all blame on the driver of the car.

Yep.

One of the things that especially annoyed me last night was that the parents all had their cars parked in the same place and were standing around bull****ting with each other while the kids ran around unsupervised. One guy in front of me pulling a horse trailer almost ran over a couple of kids -- and we were only driving at about 15 - 20 mph. They just darted out of nowhere into his path.

Basically what happened was that the families from the sparsely-populated areas in the hills converged on the little pockets where there are more houses and better candy pickings. They parked their cars on the same wide spot along the side of the road and let the kids run wild. That wouldn't have been a big deal during the day, but at night it was like asking for a tragedy. Very few places have streetlights around around here.

Once I got through that village, I changed course and took the highway that runs through the woods along the reservoir. It's almost all reservoir property along that road so there are very few occupied houses there. I usually avoid it at night because the deer risk is higher (especially now, during the peak of the rut). But last night I decided I'd rather take my chances with hormone-crazed horny deer than with unsupervised, sugar-crazed children wearing black costumes.

Rich

 

[SkyDog58]

Yep.

....
But last night I decided I'd rather take my chances with hormone-crazed horny deer than with unsupervised, sugar-crazed children wearing black costumes.

Rich

Plus you will get in far less trouble if you take the deer home and throw it in the freezer versus the kid.

 

[SixPapaCharlie]

I took the kids out for candy with my wife, parents, sister's family, in-laws.
We travel as a big group around the neighborhood chatting and having a beverage while the kids race off from house to house.

I was a little confused when we got to the second house and they had their Christmas lights up and a Christmas tree up. That means they have Christmas for like 4 months out if the year assuming they keep it up through Jan.

 

[LandSickness]

I took my youngest son out with his best friend, who's dad was my eldest son's drama teacher. I could do curls with the bounty they came back with and the conversation with the other dad made the evening very pleasant. The highlight of the evening was the guy who had a haunted house on his lawn and the Notre Dame game on his 60 inch flat screen in the garage. A little something for everyone. We stayed at that house for like 30 minutes.

Best costume went to a young(late 20's) Mom with her kid in a stroller. The kid was a honey pot and the Mom was dressed as a bee...in heels. We tried hard not to notice, but her "stinger" was a work of art. .

 

[Hank S]

Best costume went to a young(late 20's) Mom with her kid in a stroller. The kid was a honey pot and the Mom was dressed as a bee...in heels. We tried hard not to notice, but her "stinger" was a work of art. .

Like I tell my wife, just because I'm on a diet doesn't mean I can't look at the menu.

 

[Matthew]

We had a lot of zombie cheerleaders, one Captain America, a couple of Hulks and Spidermen, assorted baseball and football players, and a lot of princesses. One mom was dressed like a hot librarian, but thinking about it later, I'm not sure it was a costume.

 

[NoHeat]

We usually get a group of kids that includes one adult holding out a bucket. At first we wonder why this adult is trick-or-treating with a group of children. Then we notice a child in a wheelchair waiting by herself at the bottom of the steps leading to our front door. This child enjoys trick or treating with her friends, as she should, but she just needs a little help from Mom or Dad because of our stairs. I'm always touched.

 

[ETres]

My wife hates squirrels, so she keeps a varmint trap in the yard. Some trick-r-treatin' sumbeetch stole it last night.

 

[Henning]

I took the kids out for candy with my wife, parents, sister's family, in-laws.
We travel as a big group around the neighborhood chatting and having a beverage while the kids race off from house to house.

I was a little confused when we got to the second house and they had their Christmas lights up and a Christmas tree up. That means they have Christmas for like 4 months out if the year assuming they keep it up through Jan.

You're assuming they take them down, that's not always the case.