# The Mime at my door said "Trick or Treat" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 1, 2017, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mime-at-my-door-said-trick-or-treat/800352 "2017-11-01T01:12:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mime-at-my-door-said-trick-or-treat/800352/1 "2017-11-01T01:12:18Z")
So I said “No, you’re supposed to go like this:”. And I mouthed “Trick or treat” with hand gestures as I handed out the candy. She gave a weak smile and moved on to the next house where there wouldn’t be a geezer critiquing her artistic impression. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mime-at-my-door-said-trick-or-treat/800352/2 "2017-11-01T01:32:02Z")
And continuing the French theme, the Green Fairy just dropped by. Symbolic only; no actual bottle of absinthe. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mime-at-my-door-said-trick-or-treat/800352/3 "2017-11-01T01:33:46Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > And continuing the French theme, the Green Fairy just dropped by. Symbolic only; no actual bottle of absinthe. 😃 It was probably an advanced party scouting for an invasion force. Careful, there may be more coming. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mime-at-my-door-said-trick-or-treat/800352/4 "2017-11-01T02:08:13Z")
Only real ghosts here in the great unknown, In the wilds of the old piney woods of So.Ark. No one would dare come this far for candy! ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mime-at-my-door-said-trick-or-treat/800352/5 "2017-11-01T02:17:50Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > So I said “No, you’re supposed to go like this:”. > > And I mouthed “Trick or treat” with hand gestures as I handed out the candy. > > She gave a weak smile and moved on to the next house where there wouldn’t be a geezer critiquing her artistic impression. > 🙂 Next you’re going to be criticizing the scarf colors of the wizard kids “Ya supposed to be in Hufflepuff, ya muggle brat?” And which eye the little pirates have their patch on (and ask them “Where are your buccaneers?” [Google for answer])… ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mime-at-my-door-said-trick-or-treat/800352/6 "2017-11-01T03:21:31Z")
Many trick-or-treaters are portraying truly horrific persons who have done abominable things. Do you have a sharp axe and explicit instructions ready for the next kid? Or will you decide you can stop at making one or two little kids feel bad? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mime-at-my-door-said-trick-or-treat/800352/7 "2017-11-01T03:27:10Z")
And the snow is coming down, now that all the groupies, ghosted, Ninjas, Lukes and Elsas are home and tucked into bed. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mime-at-my-door-said-trick-or-treat/800352/8 "2017-11-01T04:04:09Z")
The anarchist at my door said “Thank you” when I gave him his treat. Always unfailingly polite, us anarchists. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2017, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mime-at-my-door-said-trick-or-treat/800352/9 "2017-11-01T04:07:34Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > And the snow is coming down, now that all the groupies, ghosted, Ninjas, Lukes and Elsas are home and tucked into bed. > [@KRC](#): > > The anarchist at my door said “Thank you” when I gave him his treat. Always unfailingly polite, us anarchists. Now I’m curious what a groupie or an anarchist costume looks like. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mime-at-my-door-said-trick-or-treat/800352/10 "2017-11-01T04:17:31Z")
sigh. auto-correct. That was supposed to be “ghoulies and ghosts”. Forecast says 20 cm of snow, but that can’t be right. Maybe for the week. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mime-at-my-door-said-trick-or-treat/800352/11 "2017-11-01T04:30:52Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Now I’m curious what… an anarchist costume looks like. Did you not get bands of pre-teens portraying Noam Chomsky in your neighborhood? We also had two fifth grade asian girls who giggled “Don’t you get it? We’re Sacco and Vanzetti, tee-hee!” ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mime-at-my-door-said-trick-or-treat/800352/12 "2017-11-01T05:47:20Z")
best one I saw was a zomberina ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mime-at-my-door-said-trick-or-treat/800352/13 "2017-11-01T14:51:08Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > So I said “No, you’re supposed to go like this:”. > > And I mouthed “Trick or treat” with hand gestures as I handed out the candy. > > She gave a weak smile and moved on to the next house where there wouldn’t be a geezer critiquing her artistic impression. > 🙂 So weird. We went out to dinner last night and the waitress was in full mime costume. White face paint and all. Every time she came over to take our order, she’d talk. Ruined the entire illusion and much of our dinner experience. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mime-at-my-door-said-trick-or-treat/800352/14 "2017-11-01T14:57:49Z")
The kid is lucky you didn’t assault her with an [Olive Loaf](http://www.cjmaltby.com/grandpa-maltby-bloom-county-is-back/opus-mime-olive-loaf/). ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mime-at-my-door-said-trick-or-treat/800352/15 "2017-11-01T15:28:34Z")
She should have been placed in a glass box for her crime > **[The World's Best Photos of gary and larson - Flickr Hive Mind | Make em...](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/443675000765376682/)** > > Dec 29, 2014 - This Pin was discovered by Graham Gilmore. Discover (and save!) your own Pins on Pinterest ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mime-at-my-door-said-trick-or-treat/800352/16 "2017-11-01T21:12:56Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > And the snow is coming down, now that all the groupies, ghosted, Ninjas, Lukes and Elsas are home and tucked into bed. ( With apologies to Maurice Sendak ) In October we do tricks upon the neighbors candlesticks Lethal as a sack of lime I posed myself as quite the mime The sprinkling of the treats was fine and yet - to the second floor we climbed. We snuck in to the upstairs landing Surprise! The neighbor’s wife was standing In the hallway with a shiv. " No treats for you, you evil kids instead deliver I the shiv !! " Our hearts a- pounding turned and fled straight through the bedroom, cross the bed. Poor Christopher - he fell down dead his heart was so filled up with dread. Now just in time we close this rhyme The blizzard with its snows so fine. Oh, dreadful fate the childish mime. Who learned his lesson n’er to climb. Shiv me once Shiv me twice Shiv me chicken soup with rice. Sent from my SM-N910V using Tapatalk