Happytime

Way to show your wife a good time on her birthday, Romeo!

Happytime

Sadly, the hot firemen only appeared in my dreams after I fell asleep!

mateo44

Hey, that's our b-day tradition (bring-in Thai food and [Mel] handing out candy). The hockey game just happened to be on. Plus we already watched "Beaches" and "Steel Magnolias" earlier in the day.

Happytime

Be careful of the estrogen overdose. Don't be surprised if some hair starts falling off your chest this morning.

urbanknight

Oh, I'll have that too, just so I can act the victim when I gain 10 lb.

jsigone

wife said we had about 10 knocks on the door last night. I was out riding my bike LOL

bernmart

. . .or up to the Linda Vista area, above the Rose Bowl, where I live. Scads of kids last night. By my count we gave away more than 100 pieces of candy, and more kids were on the way when we ran out. My sense is that the costumes weren't as creative this year, though. No teenage girls dressed as Lindsey Lohan, for example. Sigh.

Cassave

Nobody, not one kid.
I live on a hill so I'm sure the little monsters are just too lazy to climb.
Sigh, what's the world coming too? I'd have climbed Everest for a snickers.

Cassave

Well, next year knock your pumpkin over, maybe it'll light something off.

urbanknight

I said "fireMAN". When did it become plural?

Excellent idea!

Happytime

In my dreams, Brian, in my dreams.

jschen

No trick or treating goes on at my place, so I don't stock candy.

Brian Sorrell

We live in one of "those" neighborhoods where all the kids go. Every year, we stage a big production and the kids seem to love it. This year's theme was: a zombie invasion has trapped unsuspecting Halloween party-goers in their house.

The wife put together a quick slideshow of the fun: https://www.thebluesmokeband.com/Hall...st%20Roll.html
And our soundtracks are here -- we loop this over a PA system all night: https://www.thebluesmokeband.com/hall...nd.effects.php

Part of the scheme this year was that the neighbor's 12-year-old would integrate into the larger groups and one of our zombies would drag him into the back yard kicking and screaming. The other zombies would swarm and trap the other kids in the yard, chewing on beef ribs with hands and feet attached to them. We measure our success by screams, weeping, and people refusing to stop at our house. Let's just say, this year was a huge success.

We got probably 500 kids, and perhaps 1 in 10 would avoid the house. A few streets down from us, they actually block off the street and get about 1,500. Halloween rocks.

blue_nose

What's the deal with trick-or-treating at a shopping center? I never heard of anyone doing this until we moved to So Cal. Is this a recent phenomenon?

Still trying to figure out why? I guess it is a saftey issue for some freaky deaky parents???

urbanknight

So I asked my students, and many of them had their parents drive them to Beverly Hills because they hand out cash! Amazing that my students are reluctant to travel 3 miles to San Fernando to get a reed for their clarinet but insist on going 15 miles to Beverly Hills to trick-or-treat.

urbanknight

That's probably it, even though the only documented case of poisoned treats was done by the child's own relative.

Happytime

I'm *guessing* the fear is not so much about poisoning as it is about child abduction/molestation.

jpconrad

When I was a kid the only way we got molested was if we did it ourselves.

I walked my kids and Darwin around to all the houses last night and I would think that most parents would do the same. However, I can tell you that I've heard the rumors from the kids of the parents in San Marino giving out full size candy bars, none of this funsize carp, so it wouldn't surprise me if economics are more a part of it than self-preservation.

herbm

Get in my belly!!! I think I know where they are!!

tinrobot

Sadly, the only thing that's changed since we were kid is that people are more afraid of each other. Neighborhoods suffer because of it.

urbanknight

Ahh, so the parents are too lazy to walk their kids house to house.

dddave

i went to a party at my boss' last night and there were some very hot scantily clad high school girls roaming the neighborhood. i didn't mind.

efficiency

You should hand out reeds for Halloween.

urbanknight

Great idea! Some of my students actually did ask where I live so they could trick-or-treat at my house, but I don't want the trick they were probably thinking of.

alicestrong

Wow!! Does it EVER! Good job...I would have SO avoided going in there...toooo scarrry