Halloween List

[Jaglavak]

I just blew $20 on candy. All those ungrateful little ruggers better get over here and get some before I eat it all and die. So far tonight I've had Dracula, a fairy, a ballerina, a ghost, and a Fenris. Still need a pirate, a swamp thing, and a zombie to fill out my bingo card. How's your Halloween bingo going?

[C2H5OH]

Zero. I get to eat all the candy myself!

[Jaglavak]

Got a goblin, a ghost, a magician, and a mermaid who quite logically explained that she rented feet for the evening.

[Khampelf]

We've had no trick or treaters, and I'd eaten most of the candy already. Then R didn't want to be unprepared and bought another big bag of candy. Fortunately little of the new stuff is stuff I like. Most of it I shouldn't have anyway. I'm ostensibly got an ear on the doorbell, but at nine, I think we got a perfect zero for trick or treaters. This leaves us stuck with a big bag of smarties, Gelatin blobs, and Dum Dum suckers. Yeah, that will be sitting a while.

[Jaglavak]

Geez, we got nothing after 8:30 or so. Leaving me with about a gallon of candy, and it's the good stuff too. Mars bars, almond joys, peppermint patties, kit kats, reeses cups, all the choice junk. But I was saved by the neighbor's wife. Between her kids and some she is babysitting there are six rug rats at her house tonight. She used her witch hat as a bucket and I filled it right up. Whew! Dodged a cavity, right there.

[Wolf Larsen]

We got about 5 kids total. So most of the glow schwag I bought is still unstarted. The pendants are pretty bright in a dark room.

[What Exit?]

No kids again. But we're on a busy road without many houses around us. Bought candy that won't tempt me much, basic Hersey bars.

[Solfy]

I bought a bag of candy at Costco. We usually get about 35 kids, but it rained last night and really kept the numbers down. I took Swimmy out trick-or-treating, and we only saw a baseball player, a surgeon, a clown, a mad scientist, and an inflatable t-rex (our favorite, but clearly a challenge to go house-to-house in). Swimmy went old-school with a skeleton costume, and MD was Fred from Scooby Doo. Her group went as the whole gang, and they took a Bluetooth speaker and played the theme song just in case there was any confusion.

Eldest got permission to throw a party (6-7 kids), and decided that the party required two additional huge bowls of candy (Husband took her party supply shopping and didn't appear to inject reason into the situation) so we have massive amounts of leftover candy in addition to the massive amounts of collected candy from MD and Swimmy. There's enough sugar in our house to two dozen diabetics in one fell swoop. Also, the candy given out in our suburb is primo stuff. When I was a kid, we came home and sorted all the good candy (fun-sized candy bars) from the mary janes, necco wafers and bit o' honeys. There were always lots of smarties, generic fruity tootsie rolls, sweet tarts and oddball stuff. My kids bring home bags full of full-sized snickers and almost 95% chocolate. Swimmy was most excited about getting two air heads and a small packet of pop rocks because they were different.

[BeeGee]

Well, here’s my Halloween story. We had thunderstorms last night, so I didn’t expect many trick or treaters. But I put out the flickering electronic candles, the motion sensor screeching cat skeleton, and put a Bluetooth speaker in the slightly opened window. I got my bedroom Kindle (I have a kindle collection and possibly a kindle problem) which I use for an alarm clock and brought it in the living room. I selected some creepy classical music and let that play for a couple of hours. Later, I turned it off and remembered to take it back to the bedroom so I’d wake up this morning.

What I did NOT do was remember to disconnect the Bluetooth speaker. As a narcoleptic, I use a more annoying alarm than most people. Which is why I am utterly shocked that no one was pounding on my door during the 50 minutes that my Kindle was blaring my alarm into the courtyard through the Bluetooth speaker instead of going off ten inches from my ear as usual.

I will buy more candy and put it outside the door in contrition. And hope that paybacks are not, in fact, a bitch.

[Amythyst]

Originally Posted by BeeGee

What I did NOT do was remember to disconnect the Bluetooth speaker. As a narcoleptic, I use a more annoying alarm than most people. Which is why I am utterly shocked that no one was pounding on my door during the 50 minutes that my Kindle was blaring my alarm into the courtyard through the Bluetooth speaker instead of going off ten inches from my ear as usual.

Damn. You have really forgiving neighbors. Either that or they're busy plotting their revenge.

I didn't get a single trick-or-treater, but I was fine with that because I was exhausted from my office's Halloween festivities. Our demon-themed Starbucks was a hit! People loved the solid storefront with faux glass door. I had to stop one coworker from telling everyone how we did it. (We need to keep some techniques secret to stay competitive.)

Highlights of the day:

• Someone from another department tried to sit on the werewolf's lap to take a selfie. (The body is just chicken wire covered in old clothing.) Fortunately I caught her before she squished him.
• Someone else came in wearing an impractical but awesome starfish costume. It looked like it was made out of a foam mattress topper. She had to hold her drink under her costume to sip it.
• Another employee from another department made four trips to our little cafe in just over an hour. He couldn't get enough of the sparkling cranberry lemonade punch. We ended up giving him the recipe.

The voting closed at noon today, and the results will be announced tomorrow. I'm feeling pretty good about our chances.

[Jaglavak]

Sounds like you have a good shot at it, assuming your bribe was adequate.

[JackieLikesVariety]

y'all are very festive!

I just listened to an audio book: Agatha Christie "And Then There Were None" which is pretty darn creepy. beautifully narrated, too.