Does it make sense to ring it again? Pay attention kid, the lights are off.

It makes sense only if it annoys you.

Oh just buy some candy ya cheap bastid!

I don't mind the doorbell so much, but I also have a knocker on my door. Kids seem to think it's a competition for how loud they can knock.

Even with my lights off, no decorations other than the spider webs hanging from my parked non-op car that are there every other day of the year and a paper on the door saying "sorry no candy" I still get some that think they'll still get lucky somehow.

 
Our doorbell is a remote, outside of our fence. Come inside and you will be assaulted by 350# of friendly dogs.
 

Birdies call you by your first name huh? Cheep, cheep.

The only trick or treaters I got were the neighbors two dogs.

Get the hose.

Not a single house on my street had a porch light on tonight.
But just in case, I had a Werther's I found in the couch cushions that didn't have TOO much lint on it.

Yeah, this is me last night.



Actually, we don't have kids and not into Halloween anymore. I came home last night around 6:00 and there had to be 3x more kids in the neighborhood than usual. Lots of cars on the stree but no buses.

This year, for the first time in recent memory, we were prepared for Halloween kiddies. Couple of decorations, bowl of candy, lights on.

Nothing. Apparently the Fire Department had some sort of deal, complete with parade or hayride or something.

We bought three BIG bags of mixed wrapped candies earlier this month. Started with one, ate it all. Crap. Went and bought two more. Ate them too. Went to the local (in)convenience store yesterday afternoon, bought another bag of stuff I don't like so I wouldn't eat it all. Smartass checker says "We're open 'til 7pm just in case."

That bag will probably sit around here until it grows mold.

This year was a bust for us. Our friendly development usually does it big, fire pits out in the driveways, major decorations maybe more than Christmas, grills going, beer drinking and usually hoards of kids being dropped off at the corner to hit our area.

This year the atmosphere was the same but the turn out was lacking usually go through about 40 dollars of candy in an hour, this year we ended up with extra candy.

Was still nice to have the family over and friends and have a nice fall fire with company

All the parents always comment on how cool our development does Halloween, and most kids are from in town as we live on the outskirts

We have doors with big clear windows. Apparently one passel of kids rang the doorbell, tried the handle and opened it before we were all the way there.

All we heard him saying was "It's open!"

I guess he thought it was self serve. This wasn't a teen mind you, but a 7-9 year old.

^^^kids are something these days I grew up with my mom saying grab one piece of candy and be sure to say thank you.

These kids today want to grab handfuls or 2-3 at a time, to the point where I begin distributing the candy like a socialist haha, it’s like what are parents teaching their kids?

People say it’s the kids this generation, well I say it’s the parents of this generation causing all this nonesense

You let them pick the candy? Whenever I do hand it out I actually drop it in their bags. Usually 4-5 pcs each.

A friend of mine told me that after she gave a kid that was about 10 yrs old a piece of candy, they reached into their bag, pulled it out, gave it back to her and then grabbed one that she preferred. My friend was too flummoxed to say anything at the time. Talk about entitlement.

I decided I was going to do a better job of it this year that I have in years past. I was going to go with full size candy bars instead of the little ones. But I put it off and put it off and then one day last week I'm in the grocery store and they've got bags of the little ones on sale. "F**k it," I said and bought them. So much for my visions of being "the cool guy that hands out big candy bars."

I had three trick-or-treaters last night. Three. And not a single one of them was a hot babe in a sexy outfit. Why do I bother?

The year my daily was egged (tinfoil wrapped to boot) while parked on the street the week before Halloween ended my participation in the stupid ass Holiday. I honestly forgot about it.

Next year, turn the sprinklers on. Also effective against door-to-door mormons and jehovah's witnesses.

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Originally posted by ugeesta:
Does it make sense to ring it again? Pay attention kid, the lights are off.

Last year was a dud, the Astros were playing during prime T&T time, and it was forecast to rain. Therefore, I decided not to hand out candy.

I got one knock last night despite no exterior lights on, all blinds closed, and watching the Astros in a room where lights not visible to street. Figured out this morning, it was the Amazon delivery guy not a candy beggar.