Thought you were referring to this thread. 
Connor: Yeah, I know. But a parent’s gotta have hope. 
Well…we got exactly 0 kids last night…usually we get about 10. When I took my son out, all the neighbors were anxious to get rid of their candy, so he was collecting by the handful.
Most of our leftover stuff (and most of his, since he got WAY to much) will be saved for gingerbread houses at Christmas…an excellent way to use up leftovers!
tatertot, sounds like that neighbor of yours is doing a great job of promoting peace and goodwill between the base folks and the locals :rolleyes:
Last night as fella bilong missus flodnak was driving flodjunior home from all-sports club, the two of them saw their very first trick-or-treaters ever. I didn’t know anyone did it in Norway. We live reasonably near the International School, so I’m certainly not the only American around, but still. So from the time they got home until bedtime, flodjunior was waiting and waiting for somebody to ring our doorbell. Nobody did. Strangely, that upset him more than not getting to go out himself.
I figure that it’s because we live along a very busy street with a fairly narrow sidewalk, plus we didn’t decorate and our porch light is currently burned out. Maybe next year we’ll make a ghost or something and make sure the light is on, to lure the neighborhood kids.
I wasn’t home, so I didn’t stock up.
HOWEVER, all that candy is now going to go on sale!
Events and geography were conspiring against me last night. Or for me, depending on how you look at it.
We have one of those remote control doorbells, which apparently died at some point in the recent past. For all I know there was a line of 50 kids outside my door waiting to get their grubby little mitts on my precious Snicker bars. The little bastards.
However, this probably wasn’t the case as I live about three blocks from the Castro in SF. For those of you not familiar with this area and its customs, Halloween in the Castro makes New Year’s Eve in Time Square look like a quilting bee. The place looked like the dregs of war-zone this morning.
Parents would have been wise to steer their kids clear of the Castro last night.
Grrr … I bought one bag each of Snickers, Milky Ways, and Three Musketeers and we got 5 trick-or-treaters. Anyone want some extra candy? At least it’s chocolate and will freeze.
OTOH, all the stuff I had left out at work is gone this morning. (whew.)
I bought 16 POUNDS of mixed candy this year because I run out EVERY year. Split one four pound bag between my son to take to school for his class and Mrs x to take to work for the kids from the Michigan School for the Deaf. That leaves twelve pounds right? Should be enough right?
I made the horrible mistake of letting my fifteen year old daughter pass out candy. I don’t mind giving two or three pieces to each kid or even more to the really little ones, I mean, hey, they gotta go home to THIER parents, ya know? But then I noticed something…I had to open the third bag when less than an HOUR had passed…she was giving FISTFULLS to EVERYBODY!!!
From then on, good old Dad (me) passed out the rest. I even ended up with about three dozen flavored Tootsie Rolls left over!
I hate holidays…
Aw, face it, xploder, you’ve just got good-hearted kids.
How long does candy keep, anyway? If I buy the sale stuff now, will it still be good this time next year?
(yeah, right–if I’ve gotta ask how long candy keeps, no way in hell it’ll keep 'til next year…)
Jack, as I’m sure you could hear, it was pretty crazy. Sorry about your neighborhood, man.