I’m at work, so no trick or treaters for me, but I’m dying to hear the Dopers’ harshest words of critique on the little TOTs outfits. Lay waste, they can’t hear you.
I can’t! I only got four. (Last year we got none, so these were a surprise.) The first three girls, all together, were…witches maybe? That’s about as harsh as I can get.
The last one - she was SO CUTE! About four years old, with her daddy tagging behind her, and he was wearing a hat. She was wearing a princess dress and a tiara, and she said “Trick or treat” in the cutest little voice, and “thank you” so sweetly too.
She got extra candy.
I just got home from work a little while ago, and saw what looked like a lone teenager with a hockey mask, stoopid t-shirt, and jeans. It looked like he got home from school and said, “Oh, hey, here’s a hockey mask. Let me go score some sugar!”
I told my wife, “If that lazy tool shows up here, I’m gonna tell him to go home and come back when he actually puts on a costume. ‘Put a half a clue into it, kid! Baaahhh!!’”.
I at least went to a party as a Bob-the-Builder type. Yeah, they were my own tools and a hard hat (even suspenders–woot!), but I took about half an hour getting ready.
Really, a single hockey mask does not make a costume.
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Kids these days. . . :rolleyes: :smack:
I think my son’s TOT companions were the lamest of the bunch this year. A store-bought Darth Vader and a store-bought green scream guy. Ho-hum.
I had a kid in a hooded bathrobe with a toy light saber tell me he was Obi-Wan Kenobe. Puhleeeeeze!
My son made his Dark Boy Sabata costume, and I personally think the purple wig made him look like a demented cheerleader, but, hey, he was happy with it.
The last year I went TOTing (I was probably 13) I went as a vampire. Black jeans, black shoes, white shirt, cape I just happened to have (don’t remember why). After about 20 houses, even I realized what a lazy punk teenager I had become and went home.
There was one group that was kind of old, but they had a little girl with them, and most of them had thrifty but fun costumes - one of them wore a robe and curlers and a green face mask, for example. But one of the boys didn’t even fucking try. I should have said something, but it was my mom’s house and it was the end of the candy anyway.
The kids looked so cool this year! Lots of them were in homemade costumes, and my favorites were the two cousins from down the street…one came as a refrigerator (complete with a box of margarine, ketchup, mustard and 2 liter bottles of soda on the inside of the fridge door), and the other was a stove, with her face sticking out the top of the ‘stove’, and her face was painted red, complete with working knobs, oven door with a turkey inside, and a pot glued on the top of the box next to her head!
We had a giraffe, Conan, Aaaaaanold, the usual assorted, obligatory fairies, chainsaw killers,vampires, werewolves, hobos and creepy clowns.
We also had a teenage guy and his pregnant teenage girlfriend as trick or treaters.
That kind of ruined it for me.
They both had on masks, but that was all they wore for a costume.
Just the masks.
Halloween went to hell in a handbasket for me after that one.
It had to have been the gothic teenager. It looked like she just put on her usual clothes for the day, then when it got dark, grabbed a Meijer plastic bag and went TOT-ing.
No body looked as good after the 4 year old Captain Jack Sparrow, complete with hip boots—and SHE was a girl! Not a wench, no, she was a REAL PIRATE!
I saw a pack of teenagers in jeans and t-shirts, carrying pillow cases and smoking cigarettes as they walked from house to house.
I have to wonder if anyone would actually give candy to a punk taking a drag off a Newport 100.
“And what are you dressed as, dearie?”
“Uh, I dunno … disaffected youth?”
I had whole gangs of prepubescent saloon-style dance hall girls. Is this some kind of newfangled emo fad?
The only ones I saw (took my own kidlet out, in a homemade Jester costume, Mom manned the door but barely anyone came) were three teens.
Regular clothing and a garbage bag for the candy. When I asked where their costumes were, one told me he’d lost his mask somewhere.
I gave some candy, but I wanted to be rid of it anyway (stuff I didn’t like that I’d bought for some reason) so I gave it to them and that was it.
I saw a lot of cute kidlets though. Pirates and faeries and princesses. Quite a few spidermen and super heroes. I think my favourite was the home made Mario costume though. Oh and the guy on the way to the bar dressed as Hugh Hefner.
Toooo many pirates this year. Pirate is always good, but if they were doing Jack Sparrow then I mentally deducted points if they didn’t have the eyeliner. Gotta have the eyeliner.
The 4-year-old who could barely say “Twick ow tweat” didn’t have the eyeliner but he had a hell of a hat, so what can you say?
Best costume & attitude: The pin-striped gangster boys who came to the door and said, “Just put da candy in da sack and nobody gets hurt.” They were great, even if they did crack themselves up.
Worst costume & attitude: We had a LOT, I mean a whole horde of parents wheeling their little kids around in strollers. Come on. If they aren’t big enough to walk up the steps and say the magic words, they aren’t old enough to do this and you shouldn’t be giving them all this candy anyway. And in a stroller you can’t tell what the costume’s supposed to be anyway.
Honorable mention: Dog dressed in lobster suit sniffs dog dressed in bumblebee suit.
Whenever I see a little girl dressed as a princess, I reflect that, somewhere, there is a little boy who doesn’t know what Hell is yet.
I had a large number of uncostumed teens (or perhaps they were all costumed as skate punks) - many of them on rollerblades or skateboards or wheelies to make the most of their time. Also, far too many minivans dropping kids off in front of the house - it wasn’t THAT cold and my neighborhood isn’t very spread out.
I did have two types of candy. Little kids got suckers - because in my experience little kids like suckers best. Kids got candy bars. Teens got suckers again - unless they made an effort to dress or were taking their siblings. Next year I am SO picking up those Halloween kisses for the teenagers.
Nearly all witches this time (and more callers than ever this year - TOT seems to be really taking off here in the UK). A couple of skeletons and a vampire.
My kids went out (first time they’ve been allowed to do TOT) as a witch and a decapitated zombie.
Nobody at all this year.
I didn’t even see or hear any TOTers going by on the sidewalk. No idea why; the weather was good. Maybe the late sunset jinxed it somehow.
Halloween decorations in the neighborhood seemed noticeably sparser this year. Maybe there’s been an influx of immigrants who don’t celebrate the holiday. 
Traffic was lighter than in years past and fewer tots than usual. One little princess came with her dad who was wearing a Marilyn Manson teeshirt. Lots of middle schoolers but at least they were costumed. I turn off the lights and call it quits before the non-costumed “big” kids come round.
So…street clothes are lazy, but pajamas are OK as long as you’re Hugh Hefner? 