Trick or candy, sweets and raisins

[Boo]

[size=1]It has been that time of year (silent hint: [spoiler][color=orange][b]HALLOWEEN[/b][/color][/spoiler]), so now I long to know all about your Halloween experiences. Was there any trick-or-treating going on? If so, what did you get? If not, why didn't you go?

And just to broaden the topic: Tell us all about your trick-or-treat experiences from the past. Any really bad experiences? Was there a night when you got so much candy that you couldn't carry it anymore? Have you been shot with a shotgun or chased down by a dog? And of course: Have you ever done a trick?

I'm very interested, because I love sweets (especially when they're free), but in the Netherlands we barely celebrate halloween (the people that do are mostly loners).

Discuss!
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[BlueYoshi]

[color=darkred]Well, it was the first time in ages since the little kids in my family couldn't be bothered to go trick or treating, which was good for me because that means I didn't have to take them.[/color]

[Claire]

[FONT="Arial"]There weren't a lot of kids trick-or-treating around my neighborhood this year. It kind of made me sad. :/

Even though I'm 16, two of my friends (16 and 17) and I went trick-or-treating. I love dressing up and candy is awesome, so what's the problem? I was an "itinerant guitarist vampire," one of them was a Sky Pirate, and the other was some kind of punker/Danzig-lookalike.

It was pretty fun. Some of the houses we went to wanted us to play a song, so we mostly just did a verse from "Ziggy Stardust." Halfway through the journey we were joined by a freshman wearing a plasma screen TV box and a really tall guy dressed as Master Chief, complete with a CO2-firing paintball gun.

We got chased, too, but by mine and the Sky Pirates' sisters and their friends. I didn't know I could run fast for so long, xD. Maybe it was the vampire costume.[/FONT]

[Korey]

Ha, Clurr that sounds like wicked fun. I wish I could've shared that experience with you, since I've been chased many a Halloween.

This past Halloween, I was feeling kinda mellow, so I called up my girlfriend and the original plan was to hang out at my house while my mom went with my brother and sister to go trick or treating with all of our friends (I'm kinda anti social when I'm in a big group, not a whole lot of room for dissent when you're trick or treating in a big group). Somehow the plan got changed into me and my girlfriend handing out candy at one of our friends houses...and we gladly accepted. We ordered Chinese food and handed out candy to the various cretins, er children around the neighborhood (for some reason we always got a lot of ninjas and princesses). Then we sat down and watched Howl's Moving Castle together. Very boring Halloween.

On Halloween's past, I've always delighted on playing pranks around the neighborhood. Not the old cliches like TPing some houses or egging cars. My pranks were of more elaborate things like putting live roaches in candy bowls to discourage those devils who think that a candy bowl sitting outside means "help yourselves". I saw teenagers once carry around burlap sacks full of candy and they would scope out houses that had candy bowls outside. So I deterred them with a little surprise inside my candy jars. Those fools ran away so fast, it was laughable.

I also enjoy flattening the bike tires of those kids that I call "road vultures" they find out which houses give out the best stuff and they ride around the neighborhood and tell their friends who then ride up on their bikes and park them like 4 houses down and walk up to your door like they just found your house by walking. I'm savvy to such tomfoolery. So I decided to play vulture myself and I waited for the fools to leave and then with a few quick jabs with a box cutter into the rear tires, they soon would learn the consequences of such unfairness.

I'm sure you're thinking "Why do you solve a wrong with another wrong? Wouldn't it be better to tell them to stop?"

Survey says.....BZZZT! Nope, sorry. Tis Halloween and I solve problems by creating bigger ones. Plus it's way too much fun!:laugh:

[Konata]

I always go trick-or-treating because it's profitable for me, in the sense that I get free candy. =P

I dressed up as... I dunno. I just wore a Nagato Yuki high school outfit, but without glasses and just put a random cut mark on my face. >_>

I got a lot of candy. Also I gt a coupon book too, which is pretty awesome. Because the same guy gave candy too.

Met with several friends,... etc etc. One of the main highlights of my event was the end of Halloween. When approached my door, I noticed a shrine of things like a bottle of mustard, a new bottle of ketchup, some sausages, sealed up bread, a plastic cup, soap, candles, a can of chicken noodle soup, and fake vampire teeth. There was a note near it that said "Dear *my name which will remain classified*, I am madly in love with you! Pleas take this as a token of my love".

It provided epic lulz and it gave me something to throw away.

[Odin M Yggdrasi]

Well my halloween seemed rather like an ordinary night. Nobody came to our place (Which I expected), but I ended up being busy with work and packing for AC3, and didn't do any of the experiments I had planned either.

Oh well, last thing I needed this close to AC3 would be to set my hair on fire when the fireball summoning machine backfires.

The one thing that sucks about getting old and living in a place like this- We didn't even buy candy because we knew nobody would show up. So now I've got absolutely nothing from this holiday.

[Ellerby]

[quote name='Korey']Then we sat down and watched Howl's Moving Castle together. Very boring Halloween.[/QUOTE]
[FONT="Tahoma"][COLOR="DimGray"]How is that a boring Halloween?! That movie was amazing.

I got stuck handing out candy. Which was fine because I was doing homework all night, anyway. Since my street is a crescent we don't get a lot of trick or treaters. This year I handed out candy to [I]four[/I] kids.[/COLOR][/FONT]

[eleanor]

[font="trebuchet ms"] Basically a bunch of my friends and I dressed up and ran around the neighborhood. We didn't ask for candy (we're 17 now, lol) but we took pictures with people who had cool costumes (i.e. a rubix cube, the Chick-fil-A cow) and generally had a good time. And we bobbed for apples. :]

Most of the costumes were impromptu. I was basically a pirate whore, because my shorts were covered by the button-up I was wearing, lol. One of my friends was white trash (she rolled her shorts up so high you could see the pockets and she was pregnant), another House from the tv show, and another "brooding gloom" from [i]Heart of Darkness[/i]. My other friends had run-of-the-mill costumes on, but one of them (a milkmaid) talked in an accent and told strangers about how she was an Austrian sex slave. :rolleyes: My friends can be sketchy sometimes. [/font]

[Desbreko]

[color=#4B0082]I sat at home eating pizza and candy, and watching the Ah! My Goddess OAV. Oh, and talking with Konata over AIM and laughing at how she got hot dogs left on her doorstep. But yeah, pretty boring; I usually don't do much, if anything, for Halloween.

I haven't been trick-or-treating since I was about eight or so since my family is Christian and my parents can be a bit overzealous at times. I've gone to a few church-run "Halloween alternative" events over the years but, frankly, they were all pretty boring. When the highlight of the night is heckling the Lizzie McGuire Movie with your friends because there's nothing better to do, you know something has gone terribly wrong.[/color]

[Korey]

[quote name='8bit'][FONT="Tahoma"][COLOR="DimGray"]How is that a boring Halloween?! That movie was amazing.

I got stuck handing out candy. Which was fine because I was doing homework all night, anyway. Since my street is a crescent we don't get a lot of trick or treaters. This year I handed out candy to [I]four[/I] kids.[/COLOR][/FONT][/QUOTE]

Hahaha....well I'd liken it to this. Take your favorite pizza, now eat it 50 times. Would you still think it was as awesome as the first time you ever sunk your teeth into it...probably not right? So that's why I thought that my Halloween was boring. Nothing against Howl's moving castle. The movie is frickin brilliant. Just I've watched it so many times, it's kind of lost its luster to me. Give me a few months, and I'll go back and think it's awesome again. Right now I'm enthralled with Death Note.

[Aaryanna]

[COLOR="goldenrod"][FONT="Comic Sans MS"][quote name='Desbreko'][color=#4B0082] I've gone to a few church-run "Halloween alternative" events over the years but, frankly, they were all pretty boring.[/color][/QUOTE]The church run events for us are boring as hell too. I've yet to be to one that [I]wasn't[/I] boring. XP

I've been trick or treating in the past, but I don't eat a lot of candy so I end up giving it away. It was fun dressing up though. Now I don't do that anymore. And this year I just stayed home since I didn't feel like doing anything. That and since it was on a school night and my friends who are older were watching R rated horror films... Well that just meant I couldn't tag along. I really wanted to though. hehe

But I had fun goofing off online, watching Hocus Pocus and chatting with Ikillion and r2vq. I also pestered Des too. :catgirl:[/FONT][/COLOR]

[Rachmaninoff]

[quote name='Aaryanna'][COLOR="goldenrod"][FONT="Comic Sans MS"]That and since it was on a school night and my friends who are older were watching R rated horror films... Well that just meant I couldn't tag along. I really wanted to though. hehe[/FONT][/COLOR][/QUOTE]Your mom would have clobbered us though. Even if it wasn't a school night. XP

Anyway... when I was younger we always dressed up and did trick or treating. And of course I always got a separate party for my birthday as well. So Halloween was always a lot of fun. It was pretty normal really, about the only exception was the year that a bunch of teenagers in the area decided to go around in the middle of the night and smash the windows of cars parked along the curb.

They did a lot of damage and I remember how annoyed my parents were as well as the other adults. There were other years where houses and cars got egged, but that one where the kids destroyed windows was the most extreme. About the only good thing about that is they got caught by the police. lol

This year I got together with a bunch of friends and we watched horror shows and made fun of them while we snacked on popcorn and stuff. No trick or treating, even though the complex I live in isn't for the university, there aren't any families living in it at the moment. Anyway, all in all, even though I got very little sleep, it was quite a bit of fun. It was a tight fit with ten people there since the living room of the apartment I live in isn't all that big. We still had a great time just the same though.

[The13thMan]

[COLOR=DarkOrange][FONT=Century Gothic]I saw me some slutty chicks around the campus while getting some Krystals with a buddy of mine. I think my favorite was super cleavage nurse... or maybe butt-cheeks peter pan. It's a close one, i'll tell ya that much.

As for trick or treating, i did get myself a butterfingers from the vending machine! That was a special treat for me!

I didn't get drunk and party... it was a Wednesday after all, sheesh.


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