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Post by Demona on Oct 11, 2010 13:56:03 GMT -5
So, who here has Halloween plans? What are they? I don't know what I'll be doing, since I've been working I don't celebrate it anymore, not even with a horror movie marathon. We'll be passing out candy I'm sure, but since our neighborhood is alot of old people, not many kids come to the door.
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Post by Phil on Oct 11, 2010 14:05:20 GMT -5
We're somewhat rural part of the area but there's a lot of door to door traffic anyway. The kids will be doing their trick or treating. There's always a few community parties. It will be nice.
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Post by Demona on Oct 11, 2010 14:08:57 GMT -5
We're somewhat rural part of the area but there's a lot of door to door traffic anyway. The kids will be doing their trick or treating. There's always a few community parties. It will be nice. As a kid I'd go with friends and we'd have pillow cases full of candy that got heavier and heavier as we went. By the time we came home they weighed a ton! Our neighborhoods have lots of houses though, it's not out in a farm area, so it's easy. |
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Post by angel607 on Oct 11, 2010 23:03:05 GMT -5
when I was little I used to and living in new jersey I used a pillow sack or 2 and went trick or treating for hours. there was a lot of houses close by. out here in pa trick or treating is 6-8pm and there isn't a lot of houses. you have to drive around. trick or treat night is always the last friday not the 31st. my plans are not that big but saturday october 30th I will be staying at a hotel and the 31st I will be going to dorney park for the last day with some of my friends from philly. I made a bet I will go on demon drop the last day. it's a ride that you step into the cage standing up inside not sitting down. it goes up stops and then you fall 10 feet. maybe I will sneak my video camera on and do a video if I can. I am really scared of free falling rides.
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Post by Classicblast on Oct 12, 2010 0:21:28 GMT -5
When I was growing up the next town over trick or treated the night before Halloween they called it Beggar's night. Our town went on actual Halloween though. I had some friends who lived near the borders and would actually go trick or treating both nights.
My brothers and I never did though. Our mother would not have let us because she thought that was a greedy thing to do. I guess from an adult's view point it could be but when you're a kid you just see it as a chance to go out and get more candy.
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Post by Phil on Oct 13, 2010 13:38:38 GMT -5
Halloween is a fun holiday but there are some side effects and that's something my company deals with. Sometimes we have to undo Halloween pranks. People put things on tracks, put black tape over crossing lights, sometimes they're much more creative too.
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Post by Jersey on Oct 13, 2010 18:35:09 GMT -5
We had a Halloween party a few years ago where everyone in the family dressed up and partied. I don't know what we're planning on for this Halloween. If I do dress up as something, I haven't decided what it will be yet.
I'll more than likely be handing out candy though.
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Post by Beangirl on Oct 20, 2010 20:20:58 GMT -5
I am switching shifts at work so a fellow associate can have her baby son's first Halloween. I never have any plans. Not too much trick or treat here in Los Angeles anymore. As a kid in the sixties my brother and friends had a ball. It was a different time back then.  |
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Post by Classicblast on Oct 21, 2010 0:01:46 GMT -5
It was a safer time too. I remember being a little kid and being told that you have to check each piece of candy and make sure it is wrapped and even if it is make sure it's not glued shut and possibly have been opened before. Not to eat anything like apples or whatever because you don't know what could have been done to it.
Obviously that was between 1977 and 1988 about. I also remember my parents saying there was a time you never had to worry about apples or other fruit it had come to the point where you can't trust people anymore. There were also other kids who might mug you for your candy. I never encountered that but it was always talked about. Pranks too that are more than harmless and the possibility of being blamed for those things.
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Post by Mahnarch on Oct 21, 2010 11:56:28 GMT -5
I can't recall anyone actually running into having their candy sabotaged. I wonder if it's an actual phenomenon that happens or, is it overly protective parents that think it could happen so they say it does...
Part of my daily run involves a semi-residential area so I have to creep down streets with my safety signals flashing as little Draculii and Spider-Men run in front of my truck.
....once in a while I'll get out and mug a kid for his bag of loot...
Not really.
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Post by Phil on Oct 21, 2010 12:58:05 GMT -5
I can't recall anyone actually running into having their candy sabotaged. I wonder if it's an actual phenomenon that happens or, is it overly protective parents that think it could happen so they say it does... Part of my daily run involves a semi-residential area so I have to creep down streets with my safety signals flashing as little Draculii and Spider-Men run in front of my truck. ....once in a while I'll get out and mug a kid for his bag of loot... Not really. I think it's both Mahnarch, I have no doubt it happened once or twice and I have less doubt its embellished to invoke panic because that's what society enjoys. My growing experience that way was the same as Classic's I don't know anybody who actually got poisoned. My parents used to warn me about being careful, and I was kind of watchful but not exceptionally watchful. I don't remember any tampered with products anyway. A few kids told stories at school who knows if they were true my guess was they were seeking attention. I do remember when I was 11 that was just before Halloween the Tylenol incident happened. But it was only the extra strength with the capsules. Someone got the capsules put cyanide in them and put them back in stores. Johnson and Johnson replaced the bottles with a tamper resistant seal. It happened again a few years later it turned out it was an inside job not an outside prank. So the company replaced capsules with caplets. I remember also kids dressing as Tylenol bottles for Halloween. |
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Post by Beangirl on Oct 22, 2010 20:38:12 GMT -5
My perfect Halloween would be to sit home in the dark and watch the original "Halloween" on DVD and eat a whole bag of miniature snickers by myself.  |
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Post by Mahnarch on Oct 22, 2010 23:27:56 GMT -5
I remember the Tylenol thing, also. The first was a local, isolated incident. The second I wasn't aware of - but, it gives me something to look up for the rest of the night. At home, I never get any trick'er-treaters since the nearest "neighborhood" is 4 miles away. Besides, like I said, I'm working at that time, anyway, but, I do get home late enough for the TV scary movie marathon. |
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Post by Classicblast on Oct 23, 2010 1:08:51 GMT -5
The Halloween movies are great. I actually enjoy trick or treaters and seeing new costumes of whatever is popular at the time.
I remember the Tylenol thing but I hadn't though of it but I remember it well.
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Post by Alan on Oct 24, 2010 16:07:40 GMT -5
I looked at buying a sophisticated costume but some of those are over 100 bucks. For a one time party? I don't think so. Phil does things like that though he will buy some props. Like his Sgt Enforcer hat that's about 90 at a military store. Its an authentic drill instructors hat though.
I'm just making a biker costume. I did buy the arm gloves that are clear except they have tattoos on them. I have an awesome leather hat dark shades a bandanna and leather vest that's Harley Davidson apparel.
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Post by Phil on Oct 25, 2010 13:18:25 GMT -5
I can't wait to see that. Al in biker garb.
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Post by weasel2htm on Oct 25, 2010 20:29:44 GMT -5
If I'm still feeling like I've been feeling, I am not doing anything on halloween, the bad part is, I've mostly got my costume together.
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Post by Classicblast on Oct 26, 2010 0:21:35 GMT -5
My two sons' ages are 3 and 1/2 and the older will be 6 in just under two weeks. They're excited that Halloween is on a weekend because they can go to Halloween parties on Friday, Saturday and Sunday and wear a different costume to each party.
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