# Laziest costume you've ever seen? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 27, 2012, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laziest-costume-youve-ever-seen/639080 "2012-10-27T23:38:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stauderhorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laziest-costume-youve-ever-seen/639080/1 "2012-10-27T23:38:45Z")
One year while handing out candy, a kid who looked about ten years old came to the door wearing a shirt that said ‘this is my costume’. Needless to say, I gave the kid a tootsie roll. What is the laziest Halloween costume you’ve ever seen? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laziest-costume-youve-ever-seen/639080/2 "2012-10-27T23:53:51Z")
I’ve seen kids trick or treating in their street clothes, so I daresay that’s not even to be considered a costume. But it is lazy. But for laziest costume, I had a pretty low-effort get-up one year. I didn’t have a whole lot of time to get a costume together ahead of time, so the afternoon before a family party, I got my hands on a “Hello, My Name is…” sticker. I wrote my son’s name on it and went to the party as my son in 32 years. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laziest-costume-youve-ever-seen/639080/3 "2012-10-28T00:03:47Z")
My company claims 90% participation in costume wearing on Halloween. I don’t cotton to such bullshit so I plan to go dressed as a telemarketer. Or, if I want to put no more effort into it whatsoever, a once-and-future engineer reduced to being a telemarketer for now. I think the former might be the better choice. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laziest-costume-youve-ever-seen/639080/4 "2012-10-28T01:01:51Z")
You could be like Wednesday Addams and go in your street clothes. When asked what you are you reply _“I’m a homicidal maniac, they look just like everyone else.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laziest-costume-youve-ever-seen/639080/5 "2012-10-28T01:18:29Z")
A former girlfriend of mine once went as a witch. She was a Wiccan. (And no, she wasn’t making any kind of statement, she just blew off getting/making a costume until it was too late, so she declared her regular clothes to be a costume.) ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laziest-costume-youve-ever-seen/639080/6 "2012-10-28T01:21:33Z")
Ripped a pice of my t-shirt once and went as James Dean. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laziest-costume-youve-ever-seen/639080/7 "2012-10-28T01:29:43Z")
Were you James Dean in mourning, or something? ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laziest-costume-youve-ever-seen/639080/8 "2012-10-28T01:35:33Z")
I’ve had a few greedy teenagers try to pull the “serial killer” bit. (Like Wednesday Addams’ homicidal maniac: they wear their regular clothes and, if pressed, tell you they’re a serial killer.) My stock answer is that I’m dressed as a Jehovah’s Witness, then, and don’t give out candy. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laziest-costume-youve-ever-seen/639080/9 "2012-10-28T01:43:31Z")
Most of my costumes-for example two years I wore a suit and then tied those red wristbands they give around on Red Ribbon Week around by elbow and claimed I was a Communist revolutionary for Halloween. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laziest-costume-youve-ever-seen/639080/10 "2012-10-28T02:16:58Z")
When I worked fast food as a teen and worked one Halloween, three of my coworkers and I got the Dymo label maker out and changed our name tags to be the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Famine and Pestilence were on register, and War and Death were on grill. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laziest-costume-youve-ever-seen/639080/11 "2012-10-28T03:06:50Z")
> [@Student\_Driver](#): > > When I worked fast food as a teen and worked one Halloween, three of my coworkers and I got the Dymo label maker out and changed our name tags to be the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Famine and Pestilence were on register, and War and Death were on grill. Would have been funnier with Famine on grill. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laziest-costume-youve-ever-seen/639080/12 "2012-10-28T03:14:43Z")
Made a last-minute decision to go to a co-worker’s Hallowe’en party. Wore my regular clothes. Several-block walk through the rain to get to his flat. When asked about my lack of costume, I pointed at my wet blue shirt and blue jeans and said, “I’m a lake.” ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laziest-costume-youve-ever-seen/639080/13 "2012-10-28T03:27:00Z")
A few years ago I grabbed a pair of sunglasses and a gray hoodie and went as the [Unabomber](http://clockworkconservative.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/unabomber-sketch.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laziest-costume-youve-ever-seen/639080/14 "2012-10-28T03:44:00Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > Would have been funnier with Famine on grill. 😉 Nah, better to have Famine on register asking if you want to super-size it.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laziest-costume-youve-ever-seen/639080/15 "2012-10-28T10:20:20Z")
When I was 13, I decided last minute that I wasn’t ready to give up trick or treating, so I decked myself out in black, head to toe, and told people I was an invisible pedestrian, ala SNL. That was the last year I went door to door. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laziest-costume-youve-ever-seen/639080/16 "2012-10-28T13:27:54Z")
> [@Small\_Hen](#): > > When I was 13, I decided last minute that I wasn’t ready to give up trick or treating, so I decked myself out in black, head to toe, and told people I was an invisible pedestrian, ala SNL. That was the last year I went door to door. Sorta harder to get around these days, I imagine, what with the quadriplegia and all. 🙂 mmm ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laziest-costume-youve-ever-seen/639080/17 "2012-10-28T13:33:57Z")
Towards the end of the evening, we always see bunches of teens in no costumes, just begging for candy. The Grinch in me would like to snarl at them, but I don’t want them throwing eggs at my windows, so I give them candy anyhow. Sometimes, I make a crack like, “Nice costume, you really do look like an orc.” ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laziest-costume-youve-ever-seen/639080/18 "2012-10-28T13:45:32Z")
> [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](#): > > Towards the end of the evening, we always see bunches of teens in no costumes, just begging for candy. The Grinch in me would like to snarl at them, but I don’t want them throwing eggs at my windows, so I give them candy anyhow. Sometimes, I make a crack like, > “Nice costume, you really do look like an orc.” I embarrassed the heck out of one young man (who I actually knew as he’s the son of a friend; I don’t think I’d do it to a stranger) by gushing, “Oh, my gosh! Jenny! I love your costume! You look just like Nick!!! Jenny, what did you do with your boobs, Jenny? Did you bind them? Are you wearing a corset? Has Nick seen your costume? We have to take a picture, 'cause this is the BEST COSTUME EVER!!!” He wore a costume the next year. 😃 WhyNot: Parenting With Sarcasm Since 1993 ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laziest-costume-youve-ever-seen/639080/19 "2012-10-28T14:05:55Z")
I find when people wear jeans and a sports jersey quite lame. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laziest-costume-youve-ever-seen/639080/20 "2012-10-28T14:12:11Z")
> [@Student\_Driver](#): > > When I worked fast food as a teen and worked one Halloween, three of my coworkers and I got the Dymo label maker out and changed our name tags to be the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Famine and Pestilence were on register, and War and Death were on grill. > [@Terry Pratchet/Neil Gaiman in Good Omens](#): > > Pollution removed his helmet and shook out his long white hair. He’d taken over when Pestilence, muttering about penicillin, had retired in 1936 Just sayin’… 😛 My lazy costume was a couple years ago when I woke up the morning of the Company Costume Party (this was _[Purim](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purim)_, in Israel, but pretty much the same idea…) with no costume. So I threw on a pair of sneakers, sweats, a cap and picked up an old tennis racquet I had laying around, _et voila!_ The kicker of course was that this was very shortly after Muhammad Mabhouh was offed in Dubai, supposedly by Mossad agents dressed as tennis players\* So I was **really** dressed as a Secret Agent, dressed as a Tennis Player! 🙂 Best low-effort costume _EVAH!!_ Oh, another even lazier one – I’m a red-head, a real carrot-top. So on year I simply ducked into the men’s room just before the party and sprayed my hair black. Got _everybody_ doing a double-take on that one. \*From the [wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Mahmoud_Al-Mabhouh)page about the incident > [@wiki](#): > > When al-Mabhouh arrived around 3 p.m., two of the suspects _ **who were dressed in tennis attire** _ followed him to determine which room he had checked into (which is No. 230), as well as the number of the room immediately across the hall (No. 237). (bolding mine) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laziest-costume-youve-ever-seen/639080.md?page=2)