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On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:02:07 -0400, Tosk
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Really slow night tonight for candy, looks like the swine flu is keeping
folks at home...

It was fairly slow here too. Weather was good. It is still 77 at 2300
I had a bunch of candy. Publix had a buy one, get one and I screwed up
and got two that didn't go together so I ended up with 4. The guy at
the register threw in the extra 2 while he was ringing me up.
It didn't occur to me how much candy that turned out to be until I got
home. I was giving it out by the hand full. The last group just got
the bucket dumped in their bags.


The best part is all the mom's around here seem to use halloween as an
excuse to dress up as hookers, cheerleaders or naughty witches.


We have lots of 4 wheelers, golf carts and one guy pulling kids in a
wagon behind a lawn tractor.

The question is, if you are a teen, old enough to trick or treat in
your car, is that too old? I had a group of them too.

We had a bunch of kids show up on bikes, no costumes.. I looked at then
and said, awesome nerd costume dude.. Then I gave them some candy
anyway

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On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:00:59 -0500, thunder
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On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:43:32 -0400, Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:

On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:02:07 -0400, Tosk
wrote:


Really slow night tonight for candy, looks like the swine flu is keeping
folks at home...

We had 75 kids - not bad - about average.

Kids still Trick or Treat there? They really don't around here. You'll
see a few kids out in certain neighborhoods, or, parents will drive them
around to friends houses, but for the most part, it's a dying tradition
here.

Funny, though, I read somewhere we spend more money on Halloween than any
other holiday, except Christmas.

It's interesting. We've been here thirty years and it goes in cycles.
When my kids were little, it wasn't uncommon to have 100/150 kids pass
through. Then it dropped down to 23/30 for a while, then picked up
again, then down again and now it's on the upswing.

I think it has to do with how many little ones you have in the
neighborhood. We've seen a recent turnover in younger families moving
into the neighborhood, so we're seeing more little ones and thier
brothers and sisters taking them around.

When I was doing the Haunted House thing along with a couple of
friends, we averaged 100 or so. The oldest had 200 some odd and my
youngest boy down in SC had 500 - then again, he lives in a
neighborhood with a lot of kids.

I still enjoy Halloween. It's tradition to watch Rocky Horror Picture
Show every Halloween Eve and I like to see the kids and thier costumes
- it's fun.

There's a couple over in East Putnam who go all out every Halloween -
it's amazing what they do with a Haunted Graveyard, Haunted House,
spooky stuff. The local amateur theatre company participates with
actors, makeup and music - live bands and stuff. Ton of fun.

"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in
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On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:02:07 -0400, Tosk
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Really slow night tonight for candy, looks like the swine flu is keeping
folks at home...

We had 75 kids - not bad - about average.

Of course, I stole all the Baby Ruth bars out of the goodie basket
before it was time to hand them out. It's my one weakness. :)

My 18 month old grandaughter was really in to the T & T. But got a lot of
Starburst. I said, lets give those out and keep the good stuff. Was
overruled.

On Oct 31, 10:31*pm, Tom Francis - SWSports

it's amazing what they do with a Haunted Graveyard, Haunted House,
spooky stuff. *The local amateur theatre company participates with
actors, makeup and music - live bands and stuff. *Ton of fun.

That's what I did tonight. a live gig. man, am I tired. Time change
today. will I get to have that extra hour of sleep?

NO. the biological time clock is still ticking and will be for a week
or so. I'll probably be up by what used to be 6:am anyhow.

On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:14:36 -0400, wrote:

On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:31:27 -0400, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

We've been here thirty years and it goes in cycles.

My wife and I were trying to make sense out of it. The number of kids
here in the neighborhood is actually higher than it was last year but
half as many showed up. I am thinking the fact that this is Saturday
may have encouraged more parties and less ToT. I took the 3 year old
around in my cart after the kids slacked off because he wanted a ride
and I did see, what looked like, 3 parties going on.

That's a good point. Around here, there isn't much to keep kids busy
being very rural. They do have a Halloween dance type thing up at the
Academy every year and the FD does a Halloween open house.

Hey - times change.

On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:45:08 -0700, "Bill McKee"
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"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in
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On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:02:07 -0400, Tosk
wrote:


Really slow night tonight for candy, looks like the swine flu is keeping
folks at home...

We had 75 kids - not bad - about average.

Of course, I stole all the Baby Ruth bars out of the goodie basket
before it was time to hand them out. It's my one weakness. :)

My 18 month old grandaughter was really in to the T & T. But got a lot of
Starburst. I said, lets give those out and keep the good stuff. Was
overruled.

LOL!!

I hear you.

On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:35:36 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Oct 31, 10:31*pm, Tom Francis - SWSports

it's amazing what they do with a Haunted Graveyard, Haunted House,
spooky stuff. *The local amateur theatre company participates with
actors, makeup and music - live bands and stuff. *Ton of fun.

That's what I did tonight. a live gig. man, am I tired. Time change
today. will I get to have that extra hour of sleep?

Did anybody survive?

NO. the biological time clock is still ticking and will be for a week
or so. I'll probably be up by what used to be 6:am anyhow.

I roll out at 0530 everyday.

Takes me a day to get stabilized. :)

On 11/1/09 2:04 AM, Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:
On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:35:36 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

On Oct 31, 10:31 pm, Tom Francis - SWSports

it's amazing what they do with a Haunted Graveyard, Haunted House,
spooky stuff. The local amateur theatre company participates with
actors, makeup and music - live bands and stuff. Ton of fun.

That's what I did tonight. a live gig. man, am I tired. Time change
today. will I get to have that extra hour of sleep?

Did anybody survive?

NO. the biological time clock is still ticking and will be for a week
or so. I'll probably be up by what used to be 6:am anyhow.

I roll out at 0530 everyday.

Takes me a day to get stabilized. :)


What are you like when you are stabilized?

"H the K" wrote in message
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On 10/31/09 9:02 PM, Tosk wrote:

Really slow night tonight for candy, looks like the swine flu is keeping
folks at home...


Or maybe just away from your house.


His neighbours have put out the word.
Stay away from the wacky ragtop.

"H the K" wrote in message
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On 10/31/09 10:17 PM, jps wrote:
On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:43:32 -0400, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:02:07 -0400, Tosk
wrote:


Really slow night tonight for candy, looks like the swine flu is
keeping
folks at home...

We had 75 kids - not bad - about average.

Of course, I stole all the Baby Ruth bars out of the goodie basket
before it was time to hand them out. It's my one weakness. :)

You must have a pool.


About 30-40 kids stopped by, lower than usual, probably because of the
rain. Neighbor way down the street had a bonfire party for the kids, with
music, hot dogs, soft drinks, et cetera, which I though was a great idea.

We had a beautiful night here...60F temperature.
Visitors were slow coming and we had maybe 35 in total. (in past years we
would have lose to 100)
Trouble is...we had 130 small bags of chips and 100 small chocolate bars.
I was so buzzed, I had trouble sleeping last night.