We ran out of ALL our good candy, ALL our baby candy, and MOST of our sucky candy.

[conuly]

Ah, let me explain about the sucky candy. The sucky candy is the stuff I give to the kids with sucky costumes. Not little kids, but teenagers. The ones who didn't even PRETEND to try. YOU know the types.

And to hear them complaining after they leave! Listen, I've been saying this to you guys every year for the past decade. Or if not you, then your big brothers and older cousins. Get with the program, stick your mask on before you come up the stairs. I'll pretend to be impressed, you'll pretend to care, and we'll all be happy. (Barring that, I'll accept a good excuse. However, as you all ARE students, you can not DRESS UP as students. It's not a disguise if it's real! Make something up that's a little better than that, thanks.)

At my discretion, I give double doses (of the good candy) to kids who are exceptionally polite, exceptionally overburdened (it's hard to be 15 and having to chaperon 4 kidlets under the age of 8 while your mom pushes the 5th in a stroller), or who make their own costumes.

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[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

Haha, nice.

I've jsut moved from northeast Tennessee to central coastal California, and the apartment complex we landed in is HUGE. There are lots of screechy children around here.

My personal take on Halloween goodies is to get stuff that, if it doesn't all disappear, we'll use/play with/eat it ourselves eventually. This year we got a great assortment, from candy that we like to pencils, Play-Doh, and some Lisa Frank body-stickers that came with some shiny stickers that I liked. I'm pleased that so far ALL of the kids who have come by here have been VERY polite (along with the appropriate "trick or treat!" and "thank you!") with neat costumes and a "wow, cool!" attitude over the assortment and ability to take 3-4 things apiece. When they're like this, I don't mind at all dealing with several dozen. :-)

[conuly]

Oh, all the kids said at least one of please or thank you. The grumblers did it when they got off the porch. I just have better hearing than they realize.

[marveen.livejournal.com]

If we had any trick-or-treaters, I would do that myself. (We were driving around last night and we saw a couple where HE was dressed in rainbow cape, blue devil-horns, blue tights, rainbow feather-boa and facepaint....and SHE was wearing a denim jacket, a denim miniskirt and suede scrunch boots. The Captain said, "What's SHE supposed to be?")

Myself, I did historical-personalities quite a few years in my teens (Florence Nightingale, Hitler, Lady MacBeth).

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

I have heard of people who wrap garlic cloves in orange tissue paper and toss them into the candy bags. The scent is meant to taint all the candy, and they're camouflaged enough that no one notices until too late.

[conuly]

That's malicious.

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

It's a step beyond sucky candy, yes.

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

Oh, good for you! I'm instituting this policy next year.