did you get any gospel tracts?

first halloween ever without the kids going out trick or treating.
a little sad but wtf...i'm drunk. not maudlin. just drunk.

i had a huge fear that we wouldn't get any halloweeners, and i would have spent all that money for nothing. but alas, we've had plenty of hipster kids traipsing around. the best costume i've seen by far was a girl dressed as a giant strip of bacon.

i just walked up milwaukee avenue in chicago and kids are trick-or-treating at businesses. i grew up in a small town and we never had anything like this. three little kids walked into dusty groove, "trick or treat!" and they had a pumpkin full of crunch and kitkats for the kids. now, that is a great record store!

also, some furniture store's window display had what appeared to be a skeleton laying on a couch. and when a few kids walked by, the guy in the skeleton suit jumped out and freaked the daylights out of all of them. awesome. that's the halloween spirit.

We forgot.

Got a couple trick or treaters, Phil ran to buy candy.

Now out of candy.

Half the kids didn't say thank you so I screamed "You're Welcome" after them.

I don't like children.

also, we had two guys come by who couldn't have been younger than 16, and as i walked to the door i heard one of them say, "come here, she's hot." i love halloween!

amazing since you live with two of them.

Ha, ha Ayah. That's sometimes close to the truth . . .

I had one kid ask if he could have my Mac. Greedy fuckers.

You break my heart almost every day.

We usually get over 100 trick-or-treaters in our neighborhood, but tonight only 60 so far. Although my wife goes all out for Halloween--definitely the best candy on the block---no weak-ass Smarties or Bottle Caps here. Chocolate only.

This is the first year I've let my girls go by themselves, so yeah, we just polished off a bottle of shiraz with dinner. Only 28 degrees here tonight, so I could get used to this "older kid" stuff. Time to uncork another bottle.

stop being so sensitive, phillip.

Yes ma'am.

Marina got sick while we were out trick or treating. But Connor impressed his girl-next-door-friend with his Ninja costume and his superb people greeting and letting-the-girl-get-candy-first skills.

I hate halloween. Thanksgiving is where it's at.

The year of the Ninja.

Charlie was a ninja too. As we'd walk up to the houses Charlie would scream "trick or treat". Once in a while I"d tell him to wait til he rang the doorbell first.

But he always remembered to say Thank You. Except once or twice.

They aren't all bad Deena.

Actually Connor's SO good he'll probably get bullied in junior high until it occurs to him he's bigger than the bully.

I literally have never seen a kid like him, regardless of him being my kid.

I know the time will come where he'll get a little jaded and bitter, talk back, get combative. But not yet. He's not meek. More like a 100-percent NICE kid.

Shit, I only got to like 40-percent when I was his age and I thought that was pretty good.

We got about 87 kids from 5:30 to 8. Seemed like a decent turnout but my sister's friend's house apparently got close to 300.

So many Spider-Men. Did my heart proud.

I had a ninja come by. Pretty sweet costume too.

I think we ended up with probaly around 15 or 20 which is more than I've ever had in the two previous Halloweens that I've lived here.

We had a TON of candy that they had leftover from some Halloween carnival at the fiance's work so we were just giving the kids like double handfuls.

No kids last night. Not one. I watched Jeopardy and ate candy.

My roommate and I were laughing about the neighborhood sex offenders. It's like Christmas for those sickos. Then we realized why we weren't getting trick or treaters... we live in a garden apartment. Parents probably think we're the molos.

I drove like 6 miles to go get friggin candy, hurrying up all the way since it was almost dark, and had all of two kids show up.

2.

I didn't expect Romper Room or anything, but I definately thought we'd have more than that.

I was hanging at the girl's house last night and she had 2 groups of 4 come by and that was it.

Sad part was that the 1st group consisted of 2 kids in costume and two 11 year old kids in Hilfiger shirts and jeans......TRICK OR TREAT!

I mean, at least make an effort. Put a mask on or something.

Hyenas.

you have to move a block or two away, we got tons of kids. and we have tons of leftover candy.

and i think i got the same kid/parent with cigarette you did.

I can live without kids, once I know not to blow $25 on candy.

The thing I was afraid of (besides clown costumes) was that some of the smartass druggie hippie kids would come to the door and start demanding candy and shit. One such dude was just out in the street two nights ago, blocking 2 lanes of traffic, cursing at cars and kicking their doors as they drove by, obviously fugged up on something. I waited till he wasn't looking and gunned it past him - if he'd have kicked my bike I think I'd be in jail right now.

i had one kid last night who was wearing a nirvana sweatshirt. i asked him what his costume was and he said, "i'm emo." sigh.