Annual Halloween head count
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Enjoying a cigar and a not too sweet bourbon watching adults sneak through the neighborhood looting leftovers from the candy bowls.
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- Way different crowd in this rural AB town. Different from the upscale YYC neighborhood. All kiddos in were in costumes. Teenagers too. And parents. Many cows. Some dinosaurs, ninjas. One really cute mini RCMP officer. All, yes all!, said “Thank you”. There were no van loads of kids with parent chauffeurs. Everyone walked.
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We had one kid dressed as a fisherman. His dad was in a shiny blue fish costume. Very cute.
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Two, our first in this house. 10yr old boy and girl dressed&painted as wizard and witch.
All we had to give were chocolate chunk ginger biscuits. Very happy faces, but I wonder if they liked ginger?In London we always got maybe a dozen because the front door was 4 yards from the pavement, but the current house at night feels like walking into tree encroaching gloom for about 40 yards, past a couple of blinding sensor security lights.
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Ours were exceptionally polite, almost everyone said thank you. There were a lot of parents.
The reason we get so many is that we are the first housing development as you come in from the rural parts of Rhode Island into a small town.
It also probably helps that while the houses on our street are fairly modest, there are a few streets nearby with a decent number of McMansions.
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Ours were exceptionally polite, almost everyone said thank you. There were a lot of parents.
The reason we get so many is that we are the first housing development as you come in from the rural parts of Rhode Island into a small town.
It also probably helps that while the houses on our street are fairly modest, there are a few streets nearby with a decent number of McMansions.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Annual Halloween head count:
town.It also probably helps that while the houses on our street are fairly modest, there are a few streets nearby with a decent number of McMansions.
That’s actually fairly poor planning for trick and treaters. The display of wealth does not translate into higher qualitative or quantitative treats. In addition, those things are often built on 2 parcels of land, meaning fewer opportunities per step walked. Especially the ones with the long driveways/walkways.
Smart trick or treaters look for townhouse developments.
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We usually miss the first half of kids coming around since we're out from about 6-730pm with our own kids. But it seemed numbers were a tad down from last year but nothing major. And @LuFins-Dad , my wife knows this... I HATE the idea of trunk or treats. I mean, I won't stop the kids from going, but still. Ugh.
When we did get back to my house, I turned on the fog machine which is always a big hit. And we had one "jump scare" gravestone that really scared a bunch of people as they walked up our walkway.
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We usually miss the first half of kids coming around since we're out from about 6-730pm with our own kids. But it seemed numbers were a tad down from last year but nothing major. And @LuFins-Dad , my wife knows this... I HATE the idea of trunk or treats. I mean, I won't stop the kids from going, but still. Ugh.
When we did get back to my house, I turned on the fog machine which is always a big hit. And we had one "jump scare" gravestone that really scared a bunch of people as they walked up our walkway.
@89th said in Annual Halloween head count:
I HATE the idea of trunk or treats. I mean, I won't stop the kids from going, but still. Ugh.
Damn straight!
Trick-or-treating is a bad influence on kids -- not only it promotes an unhealthy diet, it also encourages kids to trespass, terrorize and extort; even those who do not extort resort to pan-handling, expecting something to be given to them without work, a sure recipe to promote welfare entitlement mentalities. All you people who give out candies cave under such extortion and pan-handling just screw up the kids' diet and moral compass -- shame on you! Trick-or-treating should be banned everywhere forever.
