Halloween/Trick or Treating stories

[Ultimo Gallos]

Yea I know trick or treating is dying off in lots of areas.

As a kid once I was 8 I would go with like 15 of us kids,youngest was 6 oldest was 17,walking the neighborhood. Hitting at least 70 houses and leaving as soon as it was dark and not home until 9pm at the earliest.

Once we were 12 or so we came up with a plan. Go out hit every home and make note of the ones with good candy. Rush back to a buddy's home. Switch costumes,I would mostly have liek first costume was mask that covered my entire face. Go back homes with good candy now in new costumes and get candy again. Then rush back to buddy;s home switch costumes again and go back a third time.

Another time,I was 14. So now was my turn to be one of hte older kids keeping an eye on the younger kids as they went around. Was 5 or 6 of us in the group. Go up to this house that was rented out by some college kids. Party going on,we could hear the music and noise from the road.

Knock on door,few minutes later drunk dude opens door as huge cloud escapes the home. "Hey oh yeaaaa Halloween. Be right back lil guys."

He wanders off as we see this wild party going on. Dude comes back "Ok hold out ya bags close ya eyes dudes"

And I feel something heavy get dropped into my bag. Thank the guy and walk back oout to the street. Lil Colon,yes that is his real name His Dad was Colon Sr aka Big Colon,opens his bag "Those f***ers gave me a can of pork n beans." I look and i got a can of lima beans. Someone else had a can of spam. So lil Colon takes the spam opens it useing ht includedd key and throws the handful of spam at the door.

Being Halloween gotta pull some pranks. Not sure how it ended up in our pantry but for years was this big white metal can that on the side said "government pork". Which every year from when I was 15 or so until I moved from the area when I was 23 that can got wrapped up in comicstrips from the newspaper. Happy Halloween written on it in black sharpie. Then as we were driving to the big Halloween party I would leave it in the mail box of someone I knew out that way. Finally buddy we knew as Thumby,dude only had one thumb,got it and got dared to open it and eat the government pork. He opened it and cooked it and ate it. Then spent a day in the bathroom running from upper and lower ends.

Anyways funny or dumb Halloween season stories. I am sure at least some of yal Toilet papered someones' yard. Or egged a house.

[pinja]

I know I'm straying directly off topic, but I think my anecdote is relevant. In Germany we didn't celebrate Halloween until a few years ago, but we have celebrated carnival since the dawn of time and in my Catholic region we have a tradition called Lütke Fastnacht. This takes place in February and is practically the same as Trick or Treat, but with a different historical/religious twist. Children go door to door during the day, sing a Fastnacht song, and get candy in return. No tricks, though. At one Lütke Fastnacht, a neighbor left a bucket of candy at the front door with a note telling each child to take only one piece. My group and I were probably the first children at the house and we did what elementary school children do.

[Sephiroth]

The last time I ever went out was my senior year of high school with a group of buddies. As we were walking down the street I noticed my friend Jeff raising his arm, I assumed he was going to clap me on the back. BAM! I got hit so hard it drive me to my knees. I was about to say “ What the hell?!” when Jeff shouted “Hey a$$holes!” and took off running. Then I felt the wet on my back. A car zooming past had hit me in the back with a water balloon.

During a period of my childhood, my brother was obsessed with the Titanic-more accurately, with Bob Ballard, the scientist who discovered the wreck. For two or three years straight my brothers dressed as The Alvin, the submarine used to find the wreckage; he spray painted a cardboard box white and wrote “Alvin” on the side of it. Even he told people he was going to be Alvin for Halloween they always assumed he meant Alvin and the Chipmunks, he would get so steamed. Our mother took us to her office to show off our costumes- and he could t get through the door. They had to huddle in a window to see him on the street.

Like most of my generation, my dad used to “inspect” my haul. It took me way too many years to figure out it was always the Reese’s he deemed “suspicious looking.”

[bibboid]

My front yard is drought tolerant with no grass but lots of succulents and native vegetation. About five years ago my son was wearing a black skinsuit for Halloween and thought it would be fun to crawl around the yard and scare other trick or treaters. All was fine until he crawled over a barrel cactus, including putting his hand down directly on top of it. It took us close to three hours to pull all of the spines out of him.

Needless to say, I was quoting Red Foreman that night.

[Sephiroth]

Side rant: we all remember the McDonald’s ands Halloween pails fondly. But I actually have to call bull shit on how they were advertised as doubling for candy pails-those damn things were so tiny you couldn’t get a decent haul.

[Ultimo Gallos]

Oct 30, 2023 9:40:51 GMT -5 Sephiroth said:

Side rant: we all remember the McDonald’s ands Halloween pails fondly. But I actually have to call bull shit on how they were advertised as doubling for candy pails-those damn things were so tiny you couldn’t get a decent haul.

Any kid that showed up to walk the neighborhood with us with one of those got laughed at. It would be full too fast. Everyone knew to bring an old pillowcase.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

A little dude and his sister and mom came to door. He was like 4? He said trick or treat! So I gave him a candy. Mom was busy f***ing around with his sister doing whatever…little dude says “Trick or treat!” So I gave him another candy. He says “Trick or treat!!!” So I gave him another candy. Finally mom says “What’s he doing?!” I said he kept saying trick or treat, so I kept giving him candy. She finally shooed him away so his sister could go, she only said it once, but she got the same amount.

[A Platypus Rave is Correct]

a nice old lady on my block one year gave out not fun size, not full size, but GIANT SIZE candy bars.

she was a legend for years.

[J. Hova]

I swear every Halloween when I was a kid after we moved back to IL had terrible weather. I'm happy to report tomorrow they are calling for windchills in the teens with flurries. A week ago on Tuesday it was 80.

[Urn Anderson]

One year in middle school, two friends and I dressed as Hall, Nash, and Syxx, and a guy dressed as Sting gave us Milk Bones. I think that really speaks to how big wrestling was right then.

[agent817]

The last time I went Trick-or-Treating was when I was 8. Yes, that was quite early for me to stop. It wasn't by choice. I was originally going to do something like that the following year but didn't. Then came 10 and I just didn't feel like dressing up or anything like that. I remember when I was 16, my sister said that I gave up on Halloween early. She wasn't wrong.

Anyway, when I was 8, I had no costume or anything like that. My sister and I were at my grandma's house and my two aunts put together a costume out of stuff from the house. I wore a sarape and a sombrero and carried an empty tequila bottle that my grandpa still had. So I dressed as a stereotypical Mexican, but because I am Mexican, it wasn't a big deal but then again, it was the 1990s.

I will say this, though. I remember when I was about a teenager (at the latest, 18 or 19), when we ran out of candy, we shut off the porch light. However, some kids came to our door and when we didn't answer, there was more knocking and some boy said "WE WANT YOUR CANDY!" We did not answer at that point.

[chazraps]

Halloween 1991 Minnesota had a terrible blizzard. Undeterred, five-year-old me Trick-or-Treated anyway!

I made a great haul BUT my vampire make-up literally froze to my face so before I could get to my candy my mom and I had to hold a blow-drier to my face until it melted enough to be wiped off.

[Perd]

I forget how old we were, but one year, my friend dressed up as Tammy Faye Baker. For some reason, he wore his mom's robe. Some older kids tried to egg us. Luckily, they missed me. But my friend wasn’t so lucky. That robe took a beating. And he went home because he thought his mom would be pissed.

My dad, along with some of my friend's dads, took us to one of those places that had multiple haunted hoses and a haunted hayride. Little did they know how pricey admission was. They all swallowed hard and forked over the cash. And the place absolutely sucked. A total, half-assed cash grab. As we were leaving, one of the dads deadpanned "The scariest thing about this place was the price." Made the whole thing worth it.

[Ultimo Gallos]

Oct 30, 2023 21:01:37 GMT -5 J. Hova said:

I swear every Halloween when I was a kid after we moved back to IL had terrible weather. I'm happy to report tomorrow they are calling for windchills in the teens with flurries. A week ago on Tuesday it was 80.

Since I was about 10 it was normal to be chilly first 3 weeks of October then warm up fast by Halloween. This year it was warm last week now cooling down fast. Hit 85 or so Saturday and Sunday it never got above 60.

Talking to the ex-wife last night she reminded me of the year we gave out comics with the candy.

Was 2005 I think. Was at my local comic shop and the owner had a stack of digest sized b/w comics. Spidy,Avengers and FF IIRC. Ask him how much "Make me an offer for the whole lot. There is 60." Offered him 40 bucks and he took it.

Which gave me an idea. Ran by Dollar Tree and got 60 of their dollar cartoon collection DVDs.

Get home and after making the candy bags talked it over with her. Come up in a costume and get 2 things. Could be 2 comics,2 dvds,2 bags of candy or any combo of that.

Normally that subdivision we lived in got 40 kids. That year I stopped counting at 50. Ran out of DVDs fast. Ran out of comics and while she handed out bags of candy I ran to my office grabbed a long box and was pulling out kid friendly comics.

By the time we shut off the front light at 9pm she said there had been 100 kids.

Out where I live now in 16 years we have had at most 20 total trick or treaters.