Funny? Spooky? Cutesy?
The majority of the children in my neighborhood right now are preteen, so my outside decorations are mildly spooky — orange and purple lights, jack-o-lanterns, tombstones with funny sayings (“Ben Better” “Here lies an atheist – all dressed up, no where to go” etc) spider webs and hand-sized spiders. I’ll dress as a gypsy to answer the door. I’ll save my more scary stuff for a few more years when the young teens – already exhibiting a jaded attitude but who cannot quite give up trick-or-treating – are the majority. I have some tricks to scare the snot out of ‘em.
Thankfully the winds died down and it looks to be in the low 60s for this evening. Great trick-o-treat weather.
How do you celebrate Halloween?
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Comment by JD on 10/31 @ 8:56 am #
I do not care for Halloween, at all. Especially adults that dress up in costumes. And dwarfs. And anyone that dresses up like a clown. If some adult dresses up like a clown, I am going to tell my daughter to walk by them, scream bad touch, and kick them in the ding-ding. /sarc, kind of.
Comment by BJTexs on 10/31 @ 8:59 am #
A bunch of us are dressi9ng up as killer dwarf clowns in bright colored leather and coming to visit JD for candy.
Hilarity should ensue.
Comment by sdferr on 10/31 @ 9:01 am #
Should ensue? It already has.
Comment by sdferr on 10/31 @ 9:04 am #
Yowser, halloween shocker! Heh.
Comment by Abe Froman on 10/31 @ 9:07 am #
I don’t understand you JD. Why would you hate the one day when you can wear a mask and stab clowns and dwarves to death without the bloody knife you carry around arousing suspicion?
Comment by JD on 10/31 @ 9:17 am #
We have a party to go to, and apparently all of my friends are going to surprise me and everyone is going to dress as a clown. Hilarity will not ensue.
Comment by geoffb on 10/31 @ 9:20 am #
Working nights I’m quite often not at home for trick or treat. My wife being wheelchair bound is unable to answer the door and I am not in favor of her doing so even if she could.
This year I am home so I will have to decide what to do. Most of the kids do trick or treating at organized parties not door to door. There are a few who venture out with their parents to gather treats. There are also the older teens, 16, 17, 18 or even more who see this as an opportunity to case homes for future burglary. So different from my childhood of the fifties or even my son’s of the eighties.
I expect to put the outdoor light on until dusk and then quit. After dark is when most of the children of bad intent show up. The thrill is gone away, for me.
Comment by Abe Froman on 10/31 @ 9:26 am #
Maybe this is what caused JD’s phobia.
Comment by JD on 10/31 @ 9:40 am #
Yeah, Abe is part of the problem today. The solution involves fire hoses, bear traps, and fire ants.
Comment by JD on 10/31 @ 9:51 am #
Last year one of my buddies dressed his triplets up as Oompa Loompa’s, and brought them by the house. All I could say is “what the fuck is wrong in your head”.
Comment by sdferr on 10/31 @ 9:54 am #
I hate hate hate fire ants, though they were the efficient cause of one of the funnier things I’ve ever seen happen on a golf course. (Let’s just say I’ve never seen a guy remove his clothes so fast and leave it there.)
Comment by McGehee on 10/31 @ 9:54 am #
My wife and I like to celebrate Halloween without interruption from the doorbell. Tonight we’ll be disappearing, maybe catch a movie and then dinner.
Last night a pre-Halloween sleepover party made the rounds of the neighborhood n a scavenger hunt, and they came to our door — so it’s a fair bet that if we’re home they’ll try us tonight too.
Filthy beggars.
Comment by JD on 10/31 @ 10:01 am #
Sdferr – I hope it was not you Þhat happened to.
Comment by Darleen on 10/31 @ 10:03 am #
JD
a couple of years ago my daughter dressed the twins as Toy Story’s Woody and Buzz Lightyear.
I loved it.
Grouse all you want… I love Halloween. :-P
Comment by sdferr on 10/31 @ 10:06 am #
Oh, no JD, I grew up with the little bastards. It was a northern visitor to these environs, though in company with an evil brother who lives here and knew what he was getting his little brother into (and took the opportunity to stand by and laugh at the proceedings).
Comment by alppuccino on 10/31 @ 10:07 am #
I am dressing as Joe Biden. And I’ll be carrying a pole with an empty suit hanging on it.
Whaddya guys think?
Comment by JD on 10/31 @ 10:20 am #
People might confuzzle you for Barcky, al.
Comment by Rusty on 10/31 @ 12:05 pm #
We didn’t go all out decorating the house this year. Our youngest daughter(17) is going to a sleepover at a friends house. Since they’ve been ten or eleven they’ve always made their own costumes, her and her friends . This year she’s going as Max from Where The Wild things Are, or some such. two years ago she went as Tim Burton.
8:00 and it’s lights out.
Comment by Lost My Cookies on 10/31 @ 12:05 pm #
While Mrs Cookies takes the younger two around the neighborhood with several of her freinds toting a roller cooler full of light beer and thermos bottles of spiked hot cider. The men of our group huddle in my neighbor’s garage and hand out candy, tell filthy jokes and do shots. When it gets late enough, and we get “happy” enough, we sneak around the neighborhood and try and scare the roaming packs of teenagers. It’s become kind of a tradition, last year we had a chainless chainsaw, this year I bought super soakers.
Comment by Lost My Cookies on 10/31 @ 12:10 pm #
We actually have people drive their kids in from the county, and a couple of years ago my neighbor who’s a sheriffs deputy started a roadblock to keep the cars off the streets. Parents were following their kids door to door in cars, and between the drunk moms and screaming, running teenagers, it got kind of dangerous. Starting at 5 this year to get the real young’uns done and in front of the TV by dark. BWAHAHAHAHA!
Comment by alppuccino on 10/31 @ 1:10 pm #
The empty suit on the pole is Obama JD! Geez!
Comment by TRHein on 11/2 @ 3:23 am #
This year I volunteered to help host Trick or Treat at the base housing for Japanese nationals. Halloween is slowly gaining traction here in Japan. It was great fun.
Darleen – that image is awesome!~
Comment by DARLEEN LIGHT on 12/3 @ 1:48 am #
WUW