So, did you have any interesting trick or treaters last night?
My favorite all-time trick or treat story happened about 8 years ago. My house was full of my little grandkids in costume who were getting ready to go out.
A little girl, around their age, maybe 5, knocked on the door.
I opened the door, she saw that there was a party going and she just walked right past me into it!
I stepped aside, laughing and said, “Well alrighty then!”
Then I turned back to Mom and said, smiling, “Would you like to come in?”
She. Was. Horrified. Her eyes wide with what looked like terror, she shook her head mutely and, from the doorway, started whispering the kid’s name as loud as she could for whispering.
“Missy! Missy!! Come here!”
She was about to lose it, so I stepped over to Missy, who had been instantly accepted as part of the group, and said, “Missy, you need to go back to your mother.”
Her face fell, and she went back.
Weird. I don’t know what Mom thought we were going to do to the kid. Dismantle her and hand out kid parts to the trick or treaters I guess.
Last night all the kids got a kick out of our white German Shepherd, who was wearing a tie, and who had to check out each kid. I told the kids that she was dressed up like a wolf. A wolf with a tie. They liked that.
Only one sour note. This one kid, a little older, maybe 10, sauntered up with a tootsie pop stuck in his cheek, the stick sticking out of his mouth, and muttered “Trick or treat.” I can’t even remember if he had on a costume or not.
When I held the bowl of assorted candy out to him he set his bag down and started to use both hands to scoop up as much as he could, which would have been pretty much the whole bowl.
I shut it down instantly, and he got ONE piece of candy.
The rest of them were sweet. If they politely asked if they could have more than one I’d pretend to think about it, then say, “OK. You can have 3. But you have to say ‘thank you’ three times!”
They got a kick out of that.
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I took my daughter, her friend and the friend’s brother out. The boy ran in front of a car. I nearly had a heart attack. He had to hold my hand the rest of the time. It was the only car we saw and it was only doing 10 mph and stopped in plenty time but still…
Shit!! Scary! How old is he?
6 years old. We live in a wee sleepy village so the kids don’t have that much traffic experience. Lucky the car driver was prepared for madly over excited Halloweeny children
So, my husband’s truck is broken down, awaiting our ability to find someone willing to work on it. So our only functioning vehicle is the 25 year old rickety van affectionately known as “The Abductor”
Mitch drove while Ian and I went door to door. Which meant he was creeping down the road at about 1 mile an hour, while yuppie parents got bug-eyed frightened and crossed streets to get away.
One dude told Mitch, “that van is the scariest damned thing I’ve seen all night.”
I was visited by the smallest Star Wars storm trooper I have ever seen.
I had a group of three teenagers who had to have been 14 or 15 years old. One of the girls was definitely high on something and it wasn’t candy.
I dressed up as Joker to hand out candy, and had my son on my lap as a tiny Batman.
A lot of people got a kick out of it.
But this year a little boy in a wheel chair was dressed up as a Doctor Who character, and his chair was the tardis. I just thought it was neat.
My daughter had surgery around Halloween when she was 15. We got a hold of a wheel chair, wrapped her up like a mummy and her boyfriend pushed her around that night!
Long time since I shared a twin story! But here is this one. Mikey and Shelly will be 3 in January:
Janet said Mikey was just hilarious when it came to trick or treat. The first house they went to, he went up to the door. They opened the door and Mom said, “Say ‘trick or treat’ and hold out your bucket!”
Mikey says, “Ticka teat!” and held out his bucket. They dropped a piece of candy in his bucket. Mikey just froze. He peered in the bucket at that one piece of candy, then looked back up at the people, then looked at his one piece of candy, then looked at Mom, then back at that one piece of candy. He was amazed. He was awestruck He was speechless for a minute.
Then he held the bucket out again and said, “Ticka teat!” and it happened again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then Mom said, “Tell them ‘thank you’.”
“Da doo!” Mikey yelled and then ran to the next house. He charged up to the door, beat on it, yelling “Tika teat! Ticka teat!” and THEY dropped candy in his bucket!!
Then he’d yell “Da doo!” and RUN away!
It was a night of miracles, I’m telling you!
I asked Janet if she got any video. She sighed and said, “No, I had to carry Princess Shelly’s dress and run after Mikey and Chris’ head kept falling off.”
Chris was, as you know, the indomitable indominus rex, thanks to Janelle, his step mother and talanted miracle worker. Chris is the grey one.
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