Happy Halloween - For Real

[High_Beam]

Subject says it all.  Hope you get lots of great costumes visitors at your doors and its nothing but Treats.

[Intrinsic]

Happy Halloween!  Last year we didn't have many trick-or-treaters show up, hoping turnout is a bit better this time.  

[Skyhawke]

Happy Halloween! We never see trick or treaters, sadly. Curse you, Trunk or Treat! 

[Skyhawke]

Although...

 

 

[Psyonico]

We went through 24 lbs of candy in a little less than 3 hours. My wife and I moved into a new neighborhood a little less than a year ago. This is the first time in my adult life I've actually had any trick or treaters.

 

We also made jello shots to serve to the adults.  Those were a hit.

[High_Beam]

My spouse and I have been living in our current home since 2008 and have always gotten an average of 50 kids annually, some years more some less (COVID was a low year last year was larger.  My spouse is crafty oriented so created these hand made full scale static decorations outside, witches, pirates, this year added an Oracle.  My deal is I sit out and greet the ToTers and guess their costume (and I am really good at it) which gets the kids super stoked and then they get candy, all kids get candy and plenty of it but really good costumes get more (if they are in a group I am less openly effusive) but they know.  I don’t pick on bad costumes except when teens roll up.  I don’t mind teens coming for candy, I respect that game but put in the effort.  I mean yeah they still get candy cause its Halloween; I save the Grinching for other holidays.

Princesses were way down this year while Dinosaurs were up.  Superheroes were surprisingly low with just 3 Spiderman and 1 Iron Man. Got your standard witches and such but strange ones popped this year . . . Flintstones, several.  What’s next? Woody Woodpecker? Felix the Cat?  We had a Fred Jones from Scooby Doo, blonde hair and ascot with his wife dressed as Velma and their like 1 year old baby (who's birthday was that day) dressed as Scooby. Glorious. Then there were the crushingly adorable little brother and sister who came as Sheriff Woody and Jesse the Yodeling Cowgirl, you can’t help but give extra candy for that. There was a kid dressed as Wednesday Addams and mom as Morticia but the Wednesday was OG from the TV show and her mom was like her daughter wanted to kick the OG vice the reboot. Now the mom was Zeta Jones Morticia but who doesn’t like sword fighting Zeta Jones right?  Then a father rolls up with two young boys and one is got me torn on my guess at first, is it Bruno Mars or is it Michael Jackson from Smooth Criminal, I took my shot with the King of Pop and I was right. His brother was dressed like Michael in the Billie Jean video. Respect and extra candy was thus received.

Finally there was this couple with their son who looked to be like 16 or older who had come by not trick or treating just looking. But later they came back and after complimenting my spouse on the decorations and actually thanked us for doing the decorations and me doing the guessing and complimenting of costumes. Dude goes on to say that they have been bringing their son there since he was 4 and was now 18 and they tell us the kid is somewhat autistic but loved coming to the house to see the decorations and remembers me guessing his costume when he was super little. The dad said Adventure Time and I immediately remembered a Finn one year which surprised the dad I remembered (it was a rare costume to see) then mentioned the time when the kid was 11 that they came as a Ghostbuster and I nailed that he was Stantz not Venkman. That one I actually noted in my Facebook commentary 7 years ago.

 

It was very humbling and a nice cap on a very fun and Happy Halloween.

[Tiger Shadow]

10 hours ago, Psyonico said:

We went through 24 lbs of candy in a little less than 3 hours. 

 

I can do this even if no trick or treaters drop by.

[Psyonico]

My wife and I dressed as Fred and Wilma Flintstone to hand out candy.   Most of the adults got our costumes though very few of the kids did.   My personal favorite costume set that I saw was two kids,  probably 5 and 7, dressed as Dr. Evil and Austin Powers and their mom dressed as Fat Bastard.  The costumes were spot on and we got a good laugh out of them. 

 

Also saw a surprising number of inflatable costumes,  mostly dinosaurs,  though there was also a Cookie Monster and a Sonic the Hedgehog inflatable as well. 

 

Our neighbor's kid,  who is 4 and autistic,  had to practice coming up to us a few times before he was comfortable to actually go trick or treating.   It was kind of heartwarming to watch him slowly go from "i don't want to go anywhere near those people" to having a big smile and saying "trick or treat" over the course of 20-30 minutes

[High_Beam]

1 hour ago, Psyonico said:

Also saw a surprising number of inflatable costumes,  mostly dinosaurs,  though there was also a Cookie Monster and a Sonic the Hedgehog inflatable as well. 

Yeah two of the 6 dinosaurs this year in our neighborhood were inflatables.

 

Funny side note, when some kids said trick or treat I tried to make the "doink" noise in gave.  I failed.

Edited 2 hours ago by High_Beam