Halloween........

[Barcon]

This is why god invented finished basements. Wife upstairs manining the door, me downstairs manhandling the beer.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Always make sure you're out or sit in the dark.

When my son was young we'd take him the Blackpool Pleaseure Beach and the illuminations for the evening so he wouldn't miss out on a nice night.

I never answer the door for this. Partly as I'm like Victor Meldrew so Mrs Moon says but also over half the kids walking round are under 10 with a little mask on and no parents in sight. Who'd obvisously apart from the McCann's let their kids knock on strange doors in the evening?

 

[CTID1988]

Just tell the kids the sweetys are in your pockets, get them to dig deep and let the good times roll

 

[kenzie115]

Can't say I'm surprised but there are some right miserable bastards on here. A few quid for a couple of big bags of sweets and the kids have a good night. If it was once a month I could understand the issue but it's only once a year.

 

[Uwe Rosler]

 

[BlueSniffer]

I don't mind the kids on my row knocking on. It's when you get the kids from miles away knockong on that think wearing a Scream mask and a black bin bag is classed as dressing up. We had a lad knock on last year who looked over 18 - his voice was deeper than mine!

 

[crazyg]

Brilliant!

 

[Davs 19]

Brilliant!

That'd work .

 

[stony]

I don't mind little kids coming round, all dressed up with their parents hovering in the background, and hoping for a few sweets. I'm not so keen on teenagers knocking on my door in hoodies, hoping for a handout so they can spend it on cider.
It always reminds of when the binmen used to knock on and wish you a merry Christmas. It was tantamount to demanding money with menaces.
"Merry Christmas from your binmen" the unspoken bit was "Give us some money and we won't leave a trail of litter through your garden every week"
Best thing the council did was to stop the cunts from doing this.

 

[CTID1988]

One of the graces of having a separate dining room and lounge is on Halloween.

Lights get turned off at front of house and hall, TV gets moved into dining room.
Didn't do this when I were a lad, we had apple bobbing, swinging apples, a witch chasing us around (same as what's the time Mr fox) and we had a brilliant one in the cubs (well if you're 7 it is) called Fred is dead where you cover one of the kids up with a blanket with a football at their feet, tell a scary story about poor Fred (can't remember the rhyme) then when they go to try and wake him up at the ball end, which they think is the head they get jumped by the kid who sits up. Then ghost stories and stuff like that.

Going round and knocking on were all about cob-coaling in my day, see other thread.

I did a classic last christmas. Paperboy knocks on the door "Merry christmas from your paperboy", being the season of goodwill i gave him a tenner for his troubles. Me being the daft twat, it was a full 3 hours later in the middle of watching Die Hard i realised we dont even have a paperboy. Little bastard.


edit: ive quoted the wrong post for some reason. Told you, daft twat