Trick or treat?

Galwayguy35 · 31-10-2013 06:32PM

No trick or treaters ever call to my door, the neighbours must be afraid of me.

General General · 31-10-2013 06:40PM

Dress up in Bio-hazard suit (with a 'Darth Vader' ventilation sound) & hand out 'treats' with a tongs, in silence (apart from the 'Darth Vader' artificial breathing).

Record reactions using micro-camera, post on youtube... profit.

Pang · 31-10-2013 06:41PM

When I was a young child trick or treating, one of the parents always chaperoned. As we hit 10 and older, we went by ourselves.

Stheno · 31-10-2013 06:44PM

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

No trick or treaters ever call to my door, the neighbours must be afraid of me.

Same here, it makes me very happy that I don't have to interact with small children grinning inanely at me

Irish Guitarist · 31-10-2013 06:52PM

A few months ago I saw a woman at the self service machine in Tesco who seemed to be having a problem with the machine. A staff member came over and said "is everything okay?". The woman said "I didn't have enough money". The staff member said "do you want to cancel something?". The woman replied "no, I took the money out of the deposit box". What she meant was that she had stolen money from a charity collection box and used it to pay for her shopping. The staff member told her she would have to pay the money back and asked for her details. The woman complained "I have bills to pay you know".

Earlier today someone rang my doorbell and started pounding on the door as if there was a fire. I answered and it was the charity box thief with a baby dressed in a pumpkin babygrow with her. She shouted "trick or treat" and I replied "sorry, no" and closed the door. I was tempted to tell her to go back to robbing from Tesco and to stop bothering me with her trick or treat nonsense.

The baby was far too young to enjoy Halloween so it was really just the woman using it as an excuse to beg.

petrolcan · 31-10-2013 06:53PM

I am pie wrote: »

we had to sing, "halloween is coming and the goose is getting fat, have you please got a penny for the old man's hat, if you haven't got a penny then a ha'penny will do.."

Cue sweets handed over.

"and if you haven't git a ha'penny then god bless you"

Feckin catholic upbringing!!

I am pie wrote: »

No sweets = smokebomb under car and doorbell rang later on that night.

Or egged windows.

petrolcan · 31-10-2013 06:53PM

D1stant wrote: »

Since when did the term 'trick or treat' come into Ireland?
And what was it called before hen?

I always knew it as mummering.

Hownowcow · 31-10-2013 07:02PM

D1stant wrote: »

Since when did the term 'trick or treat' come into Ireland?
And what was it called before hen?

Chicken

Menas · 31-10-2013 07:54PM

Running out of treats here and it is not even seven pm. Time to turn on the cctv and turn off the lights. Hopefully that will stop the door knockers.

Generally most of the trick or treaters around here are young kids with parents lurking but we had a couple of 16 year old lasses around earlier. I was not sure to give them sweets or a box of smokes as their treat.

mad m · 31-10-2013 08:00PM

Lights off, blinds pulled.....no one at home.....

Ding dong!

Hide!

0ph0rce0 · 31-10-2013 08:02PM

Not a child in sight tonight, no fireworks, no bonfire, Nothing...

Over protective Parents have ruined halloween :mad:

Its gone to the dogs.

oldyouth · 31-10-2013 08:08PM

In my day it was............. "Any apples or nuts?"

Used to get windfall, peanuts, lollipops, chewies and a few bob

B.A._Baracus · 31-10-2013 08:13PM

Only got 1 knock on the door so far. Odd because it is usually much more busier than this. But watch as if 50 kids knocked i'd be like "feckin' kids" :pac:

Czarcasm · 31-10-2013 08:28PM

lukesmom wrote: »

I have witnessed parents dropping their offspring off in cars and driving off.

I can just imagine the children looking at each other - "They're coming back, right? Right??"

Just took my own young lad around the estate there, I'm lucky it's only a forty house estate, I wasn't sure how much more I could take! One neighbour quipped -

"Don't give your father any of them sweets now, he's fat enough already!"...

cookiexx · 31-10-2013 08:36PM

i used to HATE the parental escorting, most of the fun was in wandering around in the dark and bumping into other kids dressed up as ghosts and zombies and princesses and whatever else!

cOUDn't you just drop them off at the end of the estate and sit in the car or something as they do the rounds to each house, pick them up at the end?

Chucken · 31-10-2013 09:37PM

D1stant wrote: »

Since when did the term 'trick or treat' come into Ireland?
And what was it called before hen?

Wayyyyyy back in my day, it was Puca Puca Halloween, nuts and apples for the queen.
The Queen being the queen of the harvest I think?

Trick or Treat! Bah.

ETA: Sorry I answered on hens behalf

Sh1tbag OToole · 31-10-2013 10:10PM

None yet, which is good cause if they caught me out I'd have to dig into my supply of Beamish for treats. Considering how PC things have gone I'd probably get into trouble for my generosity

An Riabhach · 31-10-2013 10:32PM

We used to meet up with other kids from neighbouring houses-there were older kids as well so we were all ok.We were all in the countryside which made it spookier,i.e. no head lamps on the road,the old graveyard,the old gibbet,places which were apparently ring forts and "fairy rings" and other scary places...we never stayed out too late but twas always good fun.
I'll never forget a homemade mask that my big bro made for me from a cereal box one year(he was excellent at drawing)-twas the face of Eddie The Head,the mascot of Iron Maiden,and twas effin savage!!

D1stant · 01-11-2013 01:14AM

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

None yet, which is good cause if they caught me out I'd have to dig into my supply of Beamish for treats. Considering how PC things have gone I'd probably get into trouble for my generosity

Beamish? Generosity?

stoneill · 01-11-2013 01:05PM

oldyouth wrote: »

In my day it was............. "Any apples or nuts?"

Used to get windfall, peanuts, lollipops, chewies and a few bob

Any apples or nuts, we'll give the monkeys the butts.

Agricola · 01-11-2013 01:11PM

Hah, my 40 year old neighbour arrived last night in full Batman mode! His kids costumes looks positively **** in comparison. He was delighted with himself. Some people arent born with the self consciousness gene!

rubadub · 01-11-2013 01:16PM

0ph0rce0 wrote: »

Not a child in sight tonight, no fireworks, no bonfire, Nothing...

Over protective Parents have ruined halloween :mad:

Its gone to the dogs.

Even the dogs aren't let out!

oldyouth wrote: »

In my day it was............. "Any apples or nuts?"

Used to get windfall, peanuts, lollipops, chewies and a few bob

Same here "any nuts or apples", as if you wanted that healthy crap. Word would get out that some house was giving out bars and people would flock to it, we always planned on having a set of second masks so we could go up again as a different group, never did though.

Back then bars were more expensive than today, so it was more likely you got apples & nuts. Small bars are probably a lot cheaper to be giving out than fruit & nuts these days.

lukesmom · 01-11-2013 02:07PM

My aunt abs uncle only had 3 trick or treaters and they gave them a banana each haha poor fkrs

pharmaton · 01-11-2013 02:20PM

scared all the children, ate all the sweets

roll on Christmas

LoonyLovegood · 01-11-2013 02:20PM

I live in an apartment block and didn't have any trick or treaters. Was over in my friend's house and they had two lots, maybe 10 kids all together?

Trick or treat?

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