A couple of years ago on Halloween some of our front porch furniture ended up down the block, so we already brought it in back.
We get ding dong ditched pretty regularly. A couple of months ago it was accompanied by someone apparently urinating on our door, and then more recently we got a few eggs on our picture window.
Oh yeah, then there was the ever popular bag-o-shit on the front walk, but I’m sure that wasn’t intended to be taken personally.
Can’t wait to see what those mischievous little imps will surprise us with tonight!
Simple solution for the egging. Get in your car and drive right after them. Have a spouse/SO/BFF/whoever in the passenger seat, and have him egg them right back.
We don’t live in the best of neighborhoods nor the worst but we don’t get anything like that.
At least last year we didn’t. The cops swarm the neighborhood pretty good and watch for wrong doings while the tricker treaters are out and about. After nine it is pretty much quiet.
We have only lived in our house a year and half though. I will be sure to keep my eye out for any funny business.
We live in a nice neighborhood that’s not very far from a not-so-nice neighborhood, and every year we watch minivans disgorge hordes of kids who aren’t from our street. No biggie, but we’re trying a “No costume, no candy” rule this year to discourage the sullen teenagers who just show up with a sack or a pillowcase for free candy.
Well damn, it’s past 8pm here, and yet again not a single kid has called. I guess I shall be eating a full bucket of candy for about the tenth Hallowe’en in a row.
Perhaps that’s their trick? “Heh, let’s make him eat candy and get fat!”, the little bastards.
(On a serious note, all I have to look forward to is my bf coming home from work. He’s dressed as the Wicked Witch of the West. Unless he brings an evil monkey friend home.)
Well, it’s the next morning, and we were surprised by just how few trick-or-treaters we had, despite the good weather here. We ended the evening with plenty of candy left over. Oh, well, now I guess we’ll have to eat it! No tricks were played on us. Virtually all of the kids we saw were happy and polite.
The morning after and no tricks, no treats given out either.
My sister was worrying that some tricks might follow the no treats I declared I would distribute, but the only children who turned up at the door turned their noses up at the chocolate my sister bought.
Probably had over a hundred kids. Thank heavens we hadn’t eaten ALL of the candy beforehand!
Had to ask a couple of kids to please not walk through my gardens to get to the next house, and use the sidewalk instead. But that was nothing big.
Quite a few pretty elaborate costumes.
When my wife answered the door, if the kids didn’t say “Trick or Treat” she would sort of hold the candy back until they did. It was sort of funny how it took some kids a while to realize that all they were expected to do as their part was say “trick or treat” and then (hopefully) “Thank you.”
Most of the kids were very polite - makes the few little shits really stand out by comparison.
No tricks were played on us. Virtually all of the kids we saw were happy and polite.