It is official - kids and their parents are generally wussies today - I give up.

[episodic]

So I had the house decked out, an old bladeless chainsaw ready to go, lots of dry ice in a cauldron, halloween music playing loud, and flickering strobes. . . I was dressed up like wolfman, and my kid was ready in the background to scream and stuff. We live on a busy street with tons of kids. Trick or treaters were out by the dozens. They all walked past my house, literally over 100 kids walked right by. In the end one kid braved it - I gave him the whole doggone bag of snickers, turned off the lights and put a scary movie on, and told my kid to go do the block trick or treating. It is pretty much over here at 7 pm, so I don't really expect anyone else.




Kids suck and are wussies - and so are their parents.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

wow.

 

[Legendary]

:thumbsup: to you.
:thumbsdown: to your neighborhood.

 

[Sluggo]

I gave him the whole doggone back of snickers

Well yeah, who wants a back of candy? Try giving out Smarties next year, I will show up for Smarties.

BTW, I agree with you.

 

[happybelly]

Yeah, sadly Halloween has really gone down hill.

 

[BillGates]

Originally posted by: episodic
Halloween is the sux anymore

huh?

 

[JME Fidelity]

they probably just thought your decorations sucked...haha, kidding.

Nah if you really want to scare them, put land mines in your yard.

 

[PHiuR]

I would have showed up to your house!

 

[PatboyX]

yeah, i got like 10 kids all before 5:30.

 

[love2skate824]

yeah dude, totally agree.
walked around with a friend today who was wearing a beer box on his head and a sign hung around his neck reading "beer monster".....some parents didnt exactly find te humor in it if you know what i mean.

 

[DAGTA]

Originally posted by: episodic
So I had the house decked out, an old bladeless chainsaw ready to go, lots of dry ice in a cauldron, halloween music playing loud, and flickering strobes. . . I was dressed up like wolfman, and my kid was ready in the background to scream and stuff. We live on a busy street with tons of kids. Trick or treaters were out by the dozens. They all walked past my house, literally over 100 kids walked right by. In the end one kid braved it - I gave him the whole doggone bag of snickers, turned off the lights and put a scary movie on, and told my kid to go do the block trick or treating. It is pretty much over here at 7 pm, so I don't really expect anyone else.




Kids suck and are wussies - and so are their parents.

Yup

Check out the latest Foamy cartoon at Ill Will Press. I'd post a link but I tried once and the thread was deleted.

Halloween has been wussified.

 

[randomlinh]

it's the first time in 17yrs we haven't given candy. In the past 6-7 years, I don't think we maxed out more than a dozen kids, literally. when I was a kid.. we were swarming all over the place. These days.. there's no one around anymore, we all grew up. That and the schools are really pushing NOT to have the kids go out but to go to a social function that's either held by business or school, ie, go to the mall trick or treating.

 

[Pakman]

I used to love going to those houses...

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: episodic
So I had the house decked out, an old bladeless chainsaw ready to go, lots of dry ice in a cauldron, halloween music playing loud, and flickering strobes. . . I was dressed up like wolfman, and my kid was ready in the background to scream and stuff. We live on a busy street with tons of kids. Trick or treaters were out by the dozens. They all walked past my house, literally over 100 kids walked right by. In the end one kid braved it - I gave him the whole doggone bag of snickers, turned off the lights and put a scary movie on, and told my kid to go do the block trick or treating. It is pretty much over here at 7 pm, so I don't really expect anyone else.




Kids suck and are wussies - and so are their parents.

No offense but scaring the crap out of 3 and 4 year olds doesn't do much for your masculinity either. I don't blame them for not going to your house quite frankly.

 

[episodic]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: episodic
So I had the house decked out, an old bladeless chainsaw ready to go, lots of dry ice in a cauldron, halloween music playing loud, and flickering strobes. . . I was dressed up like wolfman, and my kid was ready in the background to scream and stuff. We live on a busy street with tons of kids. Trick or treaters were out by the dozens. They all walked past my house, literally over 100 kids walked right by. In the end one kid braved it - I gave him the whole doggone bag of snickers, turned off the lights and put a scary movie on, and told my kid to go do the block trick or treating. It is pretty much over here at 7 pm, so I don't really expect anyone else.




Kids suck and are wussies - and so are their parents.

No offense but scaring the crap out of 3 and 4 year olds doesn't do much for your masculinity either. I don't blame them for not going to your house quite frankly.

Ahh, a parent that wouldn't let their kid have some fun. You honestly mean when you were a kid you did not enjoy those houses? or going to haunted houses? Etc? Crap 12 year old boys were walking by. I can understand the 2 year old princess wanting to skip. . .

 

[Baked]

Originally posted by: DAGTA

Originally posted by: episodic
So I had the house decked out, an old bladeless chainsaw ready to go, lots of dry ice in a cauldron, halloween music playing loud, and flickering strobes. . . I was dressed up like wolfman, and my kid was ready in the background to scream and stuff. We live on a busy street with tons of kids. Trick or treaters were out by the dozens. They all walked past my house, literally over 100 kids walked right by. In the end one kid braved it - I gave him the whole doggone bag of snickers, turned off the lights and put a scary movie on, and told my kid to go do the block trick or treating. It is pretty much over here at 7 pm, so I don't really expect anyone else.




Kids suck and are wussies - and so are their parents.

Yup

Check out the latest Foamy cartoon at Ill Will Press. I'd post a link but I tried once and the thread was deleted.

Halloween has been wussified.

Foamy is my master!!!

 

[RU482]

I'm really disappointed. All three of my pumpkins are still sitting on my porch untouched.
That NEVER would have happened when I was a kid.

 

[love2skate824]

^^^
lol

 

[Rock Hydra]

Originally posted by: redly1
I'm really disappointed. All three of my pumpkins are still sitting on my porch untouched.
That NEVER would have happened when I was a kid.

Oh the humanity!

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: episodic

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: episodic
So I had the house decked out, an old bladeless chainsaw ready to go, lots of dry ice in a cauldron, halloween music playing loud, and flickering strobes. . . I was dressed up like wolfman, and my kid was ready in the background to scream and stuff. We live on a busy street with tons of kids. Trick or treaters were out by the dozens. They all walked past my house, literally over 100 kids walked right by. In the end one kid braved it - I gave him the whole doggone bag of snickers, turned off the lights and put a scary movie on, and told my kid to go do the block trick or treating. It is pretty much over here at 7 pm, so I don't really expect anyone else.




Kids suck and are wussies - and so are their parents.

No offense but scaring the crap out of 3 and 4 year olds doesn't do much for your masculinity either. I don't blame them for not going to your house quite frankly.

Ahh, a parent that wouldn't let their kid have some fun. You honestly mean when you were a kid you did not enjoy those houses? or going to haunted houses? Etc? Crap 12 year old boys were walking by. I can understand the 2 year old princess wanting to skip. . .

Not when I was 3 or 4. Sure, later on but there are a lot of parents with small kids and I can easily see why they would skip your house.

 

[episodic]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: episodic

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: episodic
So I had the house decked out, an old bladeless chainsaw ready to go, lots of dry ice in a cauldron, halloween music playing loud, and flickering strobes. . . I was dressed up like wolfman, and my kid was ready in the background to scream and stuff. We live on a busy street with tons of kids. Trick or treaters were out by the dozens. They all walked past my house, literally over 100 kids walked right by. In the end one kid braved it - I gave him the whole doggone bag of snickers, turned off the lights and put a scary movie on, and told my kid to go do the block trick or treating. It is pretty much over here at 7 pm, so I don't really expect anyone else.




Kids suck and are wussies - and so are their parents.

No offense but scaring the crap out of 3 and 4 year olds doesn't do much for your masculinity either. I don't blame them for not going to your house quite frankly.

Ahh, a parent that wouldn't let their kid have some fun. You honestly mean when you were a kid you did not enjoy those houses? or going to haunted houses? Etc? Crap 12 year old boys were walking by. I can understand the 2 year old princess wanting to skip. . .

Not when I was 3 or 4. Sure, later on but there are a lot of parents with small kids and I can easily see why they would skip your house.

Well most of these kids were above 3-4 - we are talking tons of 9-12 year olds, too.

 

[maziwanka]

Originally posted by: Legendary
:thumbsup: to you.
:thumbsdown: to your neighborhood.

seriously

(i would always hit up houses like yours first)

 

[TBone48]

Originally posted by: episodic
So I had the house decked out, an old bladeless chainsaw ready to go, lots of dry ice in a cauldron, halloween music playing loud, and flickering strobes. . . I was dressed up like wolfman, and my kid was ready in the background to scream and stuff. We live on a busy street with tons of kids. Trick or treaters were out by the dozens. They all walked past my house, literally over 100 kids walked right by. In the end one kid braved it - I gave him the whole doggone bag of snickers, turned off the lights and put a scary movie on, and told my kid to go do the block trick or treating. It is pretty much over here at 7 pm, so I don't really expect anyone else.




Kids suck and are wussies - and so are their parents.

That stinks. Halloween is all about scary things. I took my 5 year old out tonight and we went to a couple houses all done up with lights, fog, scary sounds, motorized mannequins... the works. She loved it! It's fun being scared on Halloween because you know it isn't real. The people who put out the effort to decorate and dress up should be the most popular in the neighborhood, IMO.

:thumbsup: to you.

 

[Vich]

Originally posted by: Legendary
:thumbsup: to you.
:thumbsdown: to your neighborhood.

 

[marvdmartian]

Yeah, the PC people have taken all the fun out of halloween.

I remember as a kid, we'd go anywhere there was candy. Shoot, the last year I went out (think I was 11 or 12......it just wasn't cool after that, ya know?? :roll: ), I must have walked 10 miles or more. Of course, for that amount of work, I came home with a paper sack that was FULL of candy, and probably cost my parents some serious bucks in future dental work!! :laugh:

On a side note, the town I live in now put out the "semi-official" word late last week, telling parents that there would be no city sponsored halloween celebrations on Sunday, because they didn't want to offend the churchgoing folks.......

um, okay.......that's good......especially since Halloween is on MONDAY this year!!! :shocked: :laugh: