Halloween

[Bonehelm]

my costume.  I should have taken my sythe too.  forgot it in my cubicle. 

Good lord,where do you work?

[johnQpublic]

Good lord,where do you work?

And is there a position available? 

[маразм1]

And is there a position available? 

I'm telling you, everybody is dressing up.  It's a huge company, so it's a lot of fun. 

[Mark]

You do not know how lucky you are.

Here the American custom has taken a firm grip.

One year I put up a Police notice 'No Trick or Treating Here' only to have my front window covered in egg.

The best thing to do is switch all the house lights off, curtains drawn, until 10 p.m., at least, in an effort to make them think nobody is at home.

It was so much better in the old days when we would go to each others houses and sacrifice a virgin and have an orgy over hot cocoa and a bourbon.

I'm with you, Hector. I f**king HATE Halloween.

Mind you, being stressed after the first day back at work in a month and having to deal with a crying three-week-old baby doesn't help my attitude any.

[Solitary Wanderer]

Its a reletively new thing to catch on in New Zealand. Really only in the past 10 years or so and now it marketed so that they can sell garbage to the kids.

We usually only get one or two lots of kids knocking on our door.

When I was growing up Halloween only existed in Hollywood movies 

[Kullervo]

You do not know how lucky you are.

Here the American custom has taken a firm grip.

One year I put up a Police notice 'No Trick or Treating Here' only to have my front window covered in egg.

The best thing to do is switch all the house lights off, curtains drawn, until 10 p.m., at least, in an effort to make them think nobody is at home.

It was so much better in the old days when we would go to each others houses and sacrifice a virgin and have an orgy over hot cocoa and a bourbon.

For once, we agree.

When everyone in the neighborhood of my youth was the same age, it was good, innocent fun. You go out, get candy, go home, gorge yourself, go to bed. Now it seems like an excuse for teenaged scumbags to harass people and cause trouble. I don't like Halloween anymore.

[Anne]

My 10-yr-old grandson went as the Grim Reaper last year.  Oh, did he love it!  Granddaughter (5) has to be a princess or a Butterfly.

[Mozart]

Halloween, what does it mean to me? Tootsie rolls and girls drinking way to much, and not staying in their already half naked costumes.....yes its a good day. Unfortunately I won't be attending this year. Kind of sucks.

But next year, I'm definitely going to be Papageno. If only other people liked opera, we could start a Mozart opera theme party.

[Heather Harrison]

Halloween is the only holiday that I take at all seriously; perhaps this is because it is a day when it is acceptable to look and act weird, which I enjoy doing.  The crass commercialism does get annoying, however.  (Of course, the worst holiday of all for crass commercialism - Christmas - is coming up.  I'm dreading that.)

Heather

[Hector]

I'll tell you what happened to a friend of mine last night.

Driving home he decided to ignore all the advice about obesity and cancer and popped into his local Burger King.

Some 'lads' decided it would be fun to let off a firework but this annoyed some workers from the nearby Do-it-yourself superstore who, then, got in a fight with the 'lads'.

They and the Burger King staff managed to get them out and locked the doors.

The 'lads' then proceeded to trash the building.

My friend, watching all this from the comfort of his car, 'phoned the police who arrived in ten minutes. Pretty good considering what night it was.

However, it appears that the police vehicle was parked less than a minute away on a large roundabout.

I do not know what happened next.

I suspect that one good thing that happened, healthwise, was that my friend did not get his burger!

[Kullervo]

My 10-yr-old grandson went as the Grim Reaper last year.  Oh, did he love it!  Granddaughter (5) has to be a princess or a Butterfly.

My 19-month-old sister went as a duck. Her little duck shoes were covered in sand spurs.

[Greta]

Man, this is really super music-nerd here...

This is my last year in college, and I'm finally getting around to joining a group that is a service sorority for our college band. We're in our last couple of weeks before induction and we had assignments for Halloween...to each dress up like one of the music professors. And impersonate them for a day, and get a picture with the "victim".

I thought it would be cool if I got my own professor (our prof. of sax and clarinet), she wears a lot of pantsuits which I have anyway...but no, no...I got assigned, yep, our conductor (band director, in band speak). ROFL!

It was hilarious. I wore a striped polo shirt and khakis, had a baton, and had to carry around a score (I chose The Planets, the largest, most colorful, and lightest to carry I had), and the funniest part was I slicked my hair back and sprayed it gray, well, uh, silver was the closest I got. Oh, man, rehearsal was funny. He was a great sport about it and totally cracked up.

I don't usually dress up for Halloween, but that was pretty darn fun. Too bad Halloween was on a week night though...

[George]

I'm with you, Hector. I f**king HATE Halloween.

Mind you, being stressed after the first day back at work in a month and having to deal with a crying three-week-old baby doesn't help my attitude any.

Sounds like someone needs some Vespers, STAT. 

[orbital]

The annnoying part for me was the building full of children going up and down, I waited a good 15 minutes for an elevator 

and the temperature was below my tolerance for standing outside so I did not go to the parade either 

[Larry Rinkel]

I'm with you, Hector. I f**king HATE Halloween.

Me too. Each year I make it my business to stay away from home and not return until 9 or 10 PM. I have not given out one piece of Halloween candy for the past 25 years.

[Peregrine]

I'll tell you what happened to a friend of mine last night.

Driving home he decided to ignore all the advice about obesity and cancer and popped into his local Burger King.

Yes, this has all come out this week. What a load of old ****!

Will be contradicting all warnings and roasting some pig at the weekend!

[Don]

I consider Halloween a "kids" thing; I know I enjoyed it greatly when I was very young.  But even now, it's great to greet the children as they come to the house for candy.  Unfortunately, only about 5 kids showed up last night - there was a very strong and cold wind that must have kept many parents from hitting the streets.

[Larry Rinkel]

I consider Halloween a "kids" thing; I know I enjoyed it greatly when I was very young.  But even now, it's great to greet the children as they come to the house for candy.  Unfortunately, only about 5 kids showed up last night - there was a very strong and cold wind that must have kept many parents from hitting the streets.

Three cheers for bad weather on October 31! But even if I didn't mind greeting the little kids, my apartment is upstairs and I'd have to walk up and down 12 steps each time the doorbell rings. I've thought of leaving a big bowl of Tootsie Rolls or other junk outside the front door with a sign saying, "Please Don't Ring or Knock - Just Take One" - but you know where that would go.

[Anne]

I consider Halloween a "kids" thing; I know I enjoyed it greatly when I was very young.  But even now, it's great to greet the children as they come to the house for candy.  Unfortunately, only about 5 kids showed up last night - there was a very strong and cold wind that must have kept many parents from hitting the streets.

I'm with Don on this one.  The children enjoy it so much.  It's also a good time to practice manners and remind them to say, "Thank you."

[Mark]

Sounds like someone needs some Vespers, STAT.