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mmmarvel says

We've been here four years and despite a pretty fair amount of kids in the neighborhood, the count has fallen off each and every year. Last night was the worst, we had ONE trick-or-treater all night long. ONE. I hope it was better than that for the rest of you. Don't think I'll be handing out treats next year. Oh, and my co-workers will have candy for the next three months.

Nice to know that holloween is still going strong in rural New England. Went through over 300 pcs of candy and very few kids took more than 1.

Each year Cottage Grove,Oregon shuts down Main St. for merchants to hand out candy. This Friday two if my friends that have businesses,said they bought 1200 pieces of candy & would probably run out.
"Packed" is a good word to describe the mass of humanity between 3:00 & 5:00 p.m.,Friday.
It is a safe environment for families.

mmmarvel says

On my best year I filled 6 barrel bags (large brown grocery bags) with candy. Halloween was a BLAST when I was growing up. Contrast the time that we've lived here. We've been here four years and despite a pretty fair amount of kids in the neighborhood, the count has fallen off each and every year.

I experienced the same thing during my elementary years in Toronto. But when our kids were trick or treating, we took them to the malls which were always packed with kids.
The day may come when kids will have their robots trick or treating for them, just so they could concentrate on their video games.

Ironman says

bob2356 says

Went through over 300 pcs of candy and very few kids took more than 1.

What a tight-wad.... We give out a handful to each kid..

he he he. That's all the candy Bob had left over from last year.

Ironman says

You would think a socialist like bob would give out free BAGS to each kid

Quite the opposite.

HEY YOU says

Each year Cottage Grove,Oregon

You live in Cottage Grove??? I lived in Oregon for several decades and the fact that you live in Cottage Grove explains a lot. Don't take it wrong, I love the people that I
knew in Oregon but it's gone someplace that it wasn't when I grew up there. Welcome (a late welcome) to Patnet.

Ironman says

You would think a socialist like bob would give out free BAGS to each kid, maybe he couldn't get the "rich people" to pay for his candy first, so he couldn't redistribute the wealth.

No, a true socialist would check the bags as they came to the door and take from those that he deemed was too much and gave to those poor children who didn't have as much.
Just like Bernie would have them do.

mmmarvel says

Ironman says

You would think a socialist like bob would give out free BAGS to each kid, maybe he couldn't get the "rich people" to pay for his candy first, so he couldn't redistribute the wealth.

No, a true socialist would check the bags as they came to the door and take from those that he deemed was too much and gave to those poor children who didn't have as much.

Just like Bernie would have them do.

In other words, the kids that worked the hardest would have candy taken out of their bags, while the other kids would have more candy put in their bags.
Once the kids find out, they would only go to Bob's home with empty bags. What would Bob do then?

Hey Dan, how was your Halloween? Did you get lots of candies?

Note to asshole 1,2, and 3. I bought the candy fresh this week. I never said a word about how many pieces to take to any kid. Most parents did say to their kids take only 1 piece. Parents around here actually parent, a concept that is being lost in ever larger stretches of the country. Everyone around here had fun for halloween rather than agonizing over socialism in trick or treating.

Since the 3 stooges are reading comprehension challenged I will repeat the statement.
very few kids TOOK more than 1 piece
Took and gave aren't synonyms. Perhaps going back and graduating 4th grade would help you buys bring your reading up to par.

I'm so glad I don't live in whatever shithole armpit of the nation redneck trailer park dump that larry, curly, and moe live in. Were you guys brain damaged before you moved to asshole USA or did it happen after you moved? I mean brain damage in addition to from the mandatory frontal lobotomy and 90% brain removal required to become a right wingnut.

Ah now looky here we went and upset Bobby. Apparently he does not like it when you second guess him, like he does to us?

Well I did buy a lot of candies last year and not single kid came. So ate them all through the next few months! This year I bought very few-no kids. But I do live in the upper Midwest and not a very urban area-and last and this year was horrible weather. last year early cold and this year cold, rain and wind.

It was horrible, two kids....Handed out a grand total of 6 handfuls of candy. Now I'm stuck with way more candy than I would have liked....Last year it was 4 medium bags; this year 1 large bag and 2 medium bags. Next year: 2 bags with only one open and the second bag probably goes to the cleaning lady.

bob2356 says

Since the 3 stooges are reading comprehension challenged I will repeat the statement.

very few kids TOOK more than 1 piece

That's what happens when you give out cheap and moldy old candies.

Consider yourself lucky.
Handing out free candy to kids these days is opening yourself up to massive lawsuits...You'll get blamed for what others houses hand out.
Besides everyone knows halloween is funded by the dentist lobby...

MMR says

It was horrible, two kids....Handed out a grand total of 6 handfuls of candy.

Ironman says

You live in a worse dump and shithole: Vermont..... Talk about home of the redneck trailer parks...

That's why every other plate in vermont on weekends is from NJ. Because everyone in jersey that can afford the gas and a motel room escapes from hell at every possible opportunity. The only people that actually go to jersey without losing an extradition hearing are bbq's (brooklyn, bronx, queens, aka bennies) or eastern PA web's (week end bastards) because jersey is less of a shithole than where they live.

Sorry you're one of the ones that can't afford the gas go get out, you would have had the opportunity to see Vermont. Very few trailer parks, lots of small towns that are real towns. Towns where people go out and have fun on halloween as well as the rest of the year rather the typical jersey night/weekend of spending hours sitting in stop and stop traffic to go out for fast food/mcrestaurant, hit the mall for both recreation and entertainment, then coming home for a couple hours of watching 500 channels with nothing on. I spent last weekend with a big crew of fellow volunteers in our local forest preserve brush clearing for back country skiing rather than a typical jersey day of mall walking and then hitting the highway rest stops for sexual gratification. I consider that a good thing.

But the lack of endless vista's of jersey;s signature product the bob (big ugly box) house no more than 3 feet apart broken up by even uglier shopping/strip malls every 1/4 mile probably would have freaked you out anyway. Plus all the cows would have sent you into a sexual frenzy that would have resulted in you stopping at every rest stop to solicit young boys or abuse yourself and you would have ended up in a vermont jail. This perfectly legal, commonly indulged in, and accepted as normal type of activity in jersey is frowned upon in vermont.

Ironman says

Population

Vermont: 626,562 (whole state)

Ocean County NJ: 586,301 (Just one county)

Orange County, CA: 3,145,515 (just one county)

I consider this a major, major plus. The idea of 586,301 people (?) just like you in one small place is pretty horrifying.

bob2356 says

Ironman says

You live in a worse dump and shithole: Vermont..... Talk about home of the redneck trailer parks...

That's why every other plate in vermont on weekends is from NJ. Because everyone in jersey that can afford the gas and a motel room escapes from hell at every possible opportunity.

So how come no one wants to live in Vermont? And I don't see Vermont as being in anyones bucket list.
It seems Vermont has a lot of nature, but is there anything that makes Vermont stand out?

MMR says

It was horrible, two kids....Handed out a grand total of 6 handfuls of candy.

The two kids certainly hit the jackpot. They had a monopoly.

God damn the cable companies...

bob2356 says

then coming home for a couple hours of watching 500 channels with nothing on.

Ironman says

Sorry bob, I've been to Vermont

skiing is good there though.

Skiing is not that bad there....not colorado or California level but some of the best in the east coast. Local yokels up there little bit off though.Strategist says

The two kids certainly hit the jackpot. They had a monopoly.

Would have almost appreciated it if they had double or triple dipped in this case.

The senate system is odd. Vermont with 500k+ residents has 2 senators and CA with 40 million residents has 2 senators-who make the same salary too?
When the original congress structure was put in place, where all the states more or less equally populated?

The thing that I think is sad is how the schools don't let kids enjoy holidays anymore. They're no longer allowed to wear costumes to school. The middle school dance, which was Friday, was a "Fall Dance" rather than a "Halloween Dance." So, they weren't allowed to wear costumes to the dance. They were only allowed to wear "school spirit wear." I guess we cannot risk offending someone who thinks that Halloween is an evil holiday.

But we did have lots of kids trick or treating on Halloween. So many, I ran out of candy and had to appropriate some of my kids' loot just to finish out the night.

People still Trick Or Treat but it's now the same as everything else. It's turned into a competition of freebie entitlement. So instead of Trick or Treating in their own neighborhoods, the trend has been for the last 10 or 15 years at least. To drive out to the Gated neighborhood, because the houses were nicer and gave the poorer less fortunate people a chance to feel like they belong in a neighborhood that any other time they would have been trespassing interlopers. Now because of that those neighborhoods have had to cut back on the Toberlone and gourmet candies and are handing out jolly Ranchers and lollypops.
While most every middle class neighborhood America didn't see one single visitor. Ate the $9.00 3lb'der bags they picked up at the impulse buy display at the CVS checkout line, them selves.

Halloween, or the Trick'er Treat'n part of it, will be an extinct part of the tradition. The social engineers are already vying to place Muerte Dias fest as a Holistically Important American celebration.

It will be interesting to see where we're going with all of this.

Tenpoundbass says

People still Trick Or Treat but it's now the same as everything else. It's turned into a competition of freebie entitlement.

You are the epitome of the old guy telling kids to get off his lawn.

Strategist says

So how come no one wants to live in Vermont?

Half a million people want to and do live in vermont. The lemmings who want non strip stop malls, fast food on every corner, endless chain restaurants, and 500 channels of cable most definitely don't want to live in vermont since it doesn't exist. Unfortunately they come up on weekends.

Ironman says

Sorry bob, I've been to Vermont... The next time I get the interest to visit, I'm going for a root canal instead, it will be a lot less uncomfortable!

So the goat kicked you in the balls when you tried to screw it? I would think someone with your vast experience in fucking animals of all shapes and sizes could have avoided that. Hint, unlike ocean county goats, vermont goats aren't used to having people like you take advantage of them.

bob2356 says

unlike ocean county goats, vermont goats aren't

he he he It's come down to.....My goats are better than yours.
I just can't stop laughing.

turtledove says

But we did have lots of kids trick or treating on Halloween. So many, I ran out of candy and had to appropriate some of my kids' loot just to finish out the night.

That's what the government does. Run huge deficits, borrow it, and let the kids pay for it.

turtledove says

But we did have lots of kids trick or treating on Halloween. So many, I ran out of candy and had to appropriate some of my kids' loot just to finish out the night.

You are starting to sound like the government.

Strategist says

That's what the government does. Run huge deficits, borrow it, and let the kids pay for it

And I argued it just like the government. I told my kids if they wanted anything for themselves, at all, they'd better hand it over.

turtledove says

Strategist says

That's what the government does. Run huge deficits, borrow it, and let the kids pay for it

And I argued it just like the government. I told my kids if they wanted anything for themselves, at all, they'd better hand it over.

When I was little, my mom took 90% of my candy and threw them away. A complete waste of hard work just like a communist government.

Our neighborhood is lower end, but people like to celebrate. Always been a really good place to trick o treat. This year my wife and I both noticed less people handing out candy, and less people tricker treating. We're still holding it together, but getting a little threadbare. I think this is the reality of the economy we live in though. Don't foresee any upturn coming soon.

Who gives a shit? American Halloween has to be about the dumbest thing ever.
You think people hiked to the neighbors house for candy in 1860? Nope.

It was a big nothingburger before Burbclaves became the norm. Just because you
all grew up in the 60's and later, you think it's the shit. But it only became super popular
to run around door to door and play pranks, when people lived in cracker boxes. It became an
excuse to show off your costume to neighbors you hardly saw otherwise, and committ armed
robbery for candy. We go to costume parties with our kids and they get to see their friends and neighbors just fine.

This dumbass thing of trudging from one house to the next for sweets should go into the dustbin.

Vicente says

You think people hiked to the neighbors house for candy in 1860? Nope.

aren't you in the education business?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassailing