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Some years ago, I was trick-or-treating with my son, and one of the houses had a guy out front with a box of full-sized candy bars, almost full. He just held out the box and said “Help yourself”, and my son asked if he could take 2. The guy just said “You can take the whole box if you want - my wife said I have to stay out here until they’re all gone, and I’d rather be watching the game.”
Damn what a guy, you must’ve been secretly annoyed lol
Oh, your bag’s full. I guess it’s time to head home. Maybe I can catch the end of the game.
Did he take the whole box?
I didn’t let him take all of them, but he took about 15.
That’s going to be a core memory for sure
whenever one of the local teams was in the series, one house would be “legally displaying” nightmare before christmas projected onto their garage and across the street would be the game on another garage. we’d take turns handing out candy and hanging out in the middle of the road watching the movie/ballgame.
…and thanks to that, Death will continue to let them live.
I don’t know. Lately it seems he’s only coming for the good ones sadly.
Meanwhile in my local neighborhood Facebook group we have multiple posts of neighbors scolding others and telling them what they can and cannot give out, don’t give out big size candy bars, we can’t compete with that. How about fuck off lol
Is she a dentist?
That man? Her son.
So if instead he would have put that money in the stock market how much would he have made? Lol jk the stock market sucks and is evil and giving kids candy is good
I haven’t lived somewhere with trick or treaters in a few years - got some bulk full size just yesterday in preparation!! Excited
Come stay at my house for an evening. Last year we got over 250. It’s pretty insane.
Time for “Candy or Potato”
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/halloween-potato-trend-explained-181207458.html
Our house never gets visitors, but our driveway is at like a 45° angle and it’s hard to see the porch from the street.
It’s nice because our house basically can’t flood, but I feel really bad for the delivery people.
It’d definitely be more of a commitment, but you could set up at the front of the driveway with a table and some chairs.
honestly we’ve enjoyed the halloweens we’ve set up outside more than the ones we had to answer the door.
part of the reason is i’m not getting up to answer the door, i’m just handing them a handful of candy
I’m in a triplex, and my two sparking spaces are directly in front of the door :( but I’ll park the cars super tight to the side and set up
can count the number of goblins i’ve seen here over the last 25+ years on one hand, but i’m still prepared nonetheless. theater boxes this year, they were on sale a couple months ago.
If you live in a place that’s hard to walk also look for local trunk or treats.
I live in rural Ohio, houses are far apart and a major highway runs through it.
Bummed last year because we didn’t get any trick or treaters. Our local library is doing a trunk or treat though so excited for that
just remember that if you live in an area with a decent amount of muslims then don’t give out haribo and other wine gums, because they contain animal gelatine and thus aren’t halal.
No? Your religious restrictions aren’t my problem. This one isn’t allowed to eat pig so we stop giving out candy with gelatine, next one isn’t allowed to take candy from a women so we have the men hold the plate, next one isn’t allowed to see a women who isn’t family so we banish our women to the kitchen. Just because the one does look more reasonable to you then the others doesn’t mean the one isn’t already ridiculous.
Hand out stones to be accommodating to the Abrahamic religions.
Let he who preserves the climate cast the first stone.
You must be fun at parties. It’s a heads up for people who want to be respectful to our fellow humans, regardless if you agree with their point of view. Gtfo with your slippery slope fallacy.
Real piece of shit reply.
i mean, options are a thing people can have.
i don’t really like the chocolate, so i’ll eat all your haribo/gummies if you eat all my chocolate
I avoid gummies entirely because they’re usually not individually labeled. If the recipient eats halal/kosher/vegetarian, then they’ll throw out ambiguous candy.
😭
Until the most recent enshitification of capitalism as a whole, we used to buy 12-14 boxes of vending machine size Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies (2.5oz per). At a 42 count per box, that translated to just shy of 600 bags the last couple years.
We always ran out. Usually no later than 8:30, with kids still showing up afterwards.
Now that the price has increased by about 80%, were getting much cheaper but still full size Rice Krispie treats. Went overboard and got nearly 800 just in case.
“… And this year, that generosity required a bank loan.”
I do love a good story in fictional writing.
When I was a kid in the 60s, there an old lady who handed out giant homemade popcorn balls at Halloween. The next day at school, everyone would be talking about it.
My parents were always twitchy about Halloween anyway, so they wouldn’t let my brother and I got to her house because it was homemade, and it might be poisonous. I tried to explain that if that were true, every kid in every class I’d had in elementary school would be dead by now, because they all got popcorn balls every year.
I’ll bet they were good. I wouldn’t know.
Every neighbourhood that had people with “fuck you” money had the occasional house like that.
In mine, one of the first mansions that had been built when the couple was young was still handing out full-sized 300g Lindt bars when I was young and the husband had already died of old age. The wife is now long dead as well, the kids sold the property to a developer soon after, but even 40 years later the long-term residents still remember.
As soon as you said Lindt I knew they were loaded, God rest their souls.
around 30
Bad math. 94 was 32 years ago.
Edit: the bad math was coming from inside the house.
Unless this was originally posted last year and the 31 years was correct
No, the post says “around 35” which can’t be true yet for someone born in 94.
Edit: never mind, thought about it twice.
Worse than that. I’m 54, but I swear “around 30 years ago” was somewhere around the early 80’s when I was growing up. Math may argue, but my heart says it’s true no matter how much my knees deny.
2030 is almost only three years away
