Wed
Oct 31 2007
07:51 pm
Happy Halloween!
By: R. Neal

We made up 93 treat bags. They're almost gone (and lots more are still coming). I was going to make a hundred, but, some of the contents, uh, disappeared during assembly.

Best exchange so far: Are you Donald Trump? No (rolling eyes), I'm Harry Potter!

Best costume so far: A skeleton mask that spurted blood from the skull and trickled down the face when we handed out the treat.

UPDATE: Costume runner-up: The entire Kiss Band.

UPDATE: Exchange runner-up: Kids dressed as warriors, one as a ninja with a sword and the other in camo. Dad dressed as a Rabbi. The Mrs: What's with the weapons and war and a Rabbi for peace? Dad: It's all about the duality.
Rachel's picture

93 spooks? I spit on your

Submitted by Rachel on Wed, 2007/10/31 - 10:53pm.

93 spooks? I spit on your 93 spooks. Seriously, I had candy for 400 and it was gone at 8 p.m. One of the guys down the street from me keeps count with a clicker and said he got to 700 before he ran out of goodies around 9 p.m.

"The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones." - John Maynard Keynes

bizgrrl's picture

Well, I guess so. Island

Submitted by bizgrrl on Thu, 2007/11/01 - 6:25am.

Well, I guess so. Island Home is apparently way ahead on attracting trick or treaters.

The normally quiet South Knoxville community has evolved into the "go to" spot for trick-or-treaters, drawing hundreds of families from across the Knoxville area because of its family-friendly atmosphere and copious amounts of sweets, residents say.
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Nancy Campbell and her husband, Bill Moorefield, live a few houses down from the Walkers. Campbell said they moved into their house 18 years ago and it's not unusual for 600 children to come by on Halloween.

tennesseevaluesauthority's picture

93? 700?

Submitted by tennesseevalues... on Wed, 2007/10/31 - 11:12pm.

93? 700?

Man, here in the wilderness of North Broadway, I quit counting trick-or-treaters at 10..and it took us until 8:30 to get that many. Sad. I guess they all are out scoring treats in the subdivisions and church parking lots these days.

We probably passed the 20 kid mark by 9:30 thanks to some parent who was riding kids around in an improvised hay-ride wagon being pulled along behind a pick-up truck.

talidapali's picture

HA!

Submitted by talidapali on Thu, 2007/11/01 - 12:52am.

we got a big fat "O"...not a single kid in sight...not even of the teenaged variety...either they are scared of our house because it LOOKS like a haunted house...or it's just too much trouble to climb the hill in our neighborhood.

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Carole Borges's picture

Me too not a spook in sight..

Submitted by Carole Borges on Thu, 2007/11/01 - 9:21am.

I'm on a quiet short street with only a few houses, and one of them is empty, so I guess we're totally off the Halloween map. Three years and not one kid. Too bad too, I really enjoy seeing the costumes.

In a way it was lucky though, as I had already eaten the entire bog of candy bars by 4.pm. tee hee

Stan G's picture

Just Too Old

Submitted by Stan G on Thu, 2007/11/01 - 10:28am.

Halloween, an early sign that you’re getting old when you reach the year you can’t quite decide whether you’re too old to go trick or treating.

I recall talking my buddy into one last year. We’d wear jeans, blue shirts, and white sailor caps. That way if any of our friends spotted us they might not realize we were out collecting candy. It worked for a few houses and then the homeowner walked down the steps with his bowl of candy. We looked at him, we looked at each other, we were both taller than him, and that’s when we agreed we were too old.

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We have a lot of steps up to

Submitted by Rachel on Thu, 2007/11/01 - 12:32pm.

We have a lot of steps up to our porch and I hate to have kids climb them. Plus we get a steady stream of 'em anyway.

So the spouse & I just go sit out on the bottom steps for a few hours and hand out the candy. Last night I had a glass of wine and he had a beer. We were trying to keep them sort of hidden, but one of the older trick-or-treaters saw the beer and said "I'd rather have that."

Ok, when you ask for beer, you are officially to old to treat or treat.

"The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones." - John Maynard Keynes

Carole Borges's picture

My father almost cried when I got too old

Submitted by Carole Borges on Thu, 2007/11/01 - 1:42pm.

Dressing up was my Dad's favorite thing, and Halloween was his favorite holiday. We always talked for weeks about what we'd wear. Usually it was some sort of bum or clown costume. We used to practically waltz thru the 'hood. One year Dad insisted on wearing a wolf mask and striped pajamas. I almost died! Then suddenly I was a teenager. OMG! A devoted Dad's worse nightmare! When I told him I'd already made plans to go with friends, that I was going to be a fairy princess that year, I swear I saw moisture seeping into his eyes.

It was probably wrong, but we always did a kind of Ninja attack on local businesses. We'd sneak up real low, wait until the owner wasn't looking, then leap up and scrawl, afterwards we'd collapse on the ground giggling. Anyway, it sure was a lot of fun.

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