Comments on: WE’RE TRICK OR TREATING WITH THE RAZORBACKS

By: DC Trojan

DC Trojan — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:39:00 +0000

OOC, it might be cheaper in the long run to get new neighbors rather than a new wife.

As for the Suburban idler, someone needs to be a green Eddy Murphy and stuff a block of tofu up the tailpipe of her truck. I had been wondering why it was so warm up here in DC today and now I know.

By: Out of Conference

Out of Conference — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:15:24 +0000

Damn skippy!

By: shovel pass

shovel pass — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:27:17 +0000

OOC…
Get a new wife. I do that every year. It winds up being a huge adult party while the kiddies run about grabbing all the candy they can. It’s the reason I still love Holloween…..that and there is always a hot neighborhood MILF that dresses as a devil or bunny or something…..

By: GoCamels

GoCamels — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:09:25 +0000

I’m stealing OofC’s idea for next year…perfect here on the Outer Banks.

By: Out of Conference

Out of Conference — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:16:16 +0000

Yeah – a few minivans out in ‘burbs of Upstate SC carting ingrates around. The worse though was this family in a Suburban. The kids walked house to house, but the mom drove in a Suburban with her flashers on from house to house. Didn’t get out, just idled from house to house as her kids walked.
Our kids aren’t old enough yet to go out (or eat candy), so they helped hand out candy.

Question: I wanted to throw the portable outdoor fire pit fromthe patio in the drive way, light a nice fire, fill a cooler with beers and hand out candy to the kids and cans of beer to the adults. My wife thought it was against the law in your front yard (cans of beer visible from street) and she said the neighbors wouldn’t like it anyway. Thoughts?

By: Brewster Crew

Brewster Crew — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:48:44 +0000

#17,

You forgot the part about the 3′ of snow falling on you while you trick-or-treat (1991), or the fact that exposed skin can usually get frostbite in under a minute while out getting cheap shitty candy.

By: Jerkwheat

Jerkwheat — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:22:00 +0000

I saw much of the minivan caravaning going on in the VA burbs over by Tysons last night.

WALK YOU CHUNKY LITTLE MONKEYS!

By: Biggus Rickus

Biggus Rickus — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:16:46 +0000

I’m really glad I was in the military and single when I lived in DC. Married and in the suburbs, dealing with those kinds of Type A douchebags would have driven me insane.

By: DC Trojan

DC Trojan — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:59:25 +0000

DevilGrad, I’m not a million miles from the Landon School, Holton Arms, and Whitman HS… so yeah, I’m familiar with the local vibe. People think we’re strange because my older girl only takes swimming lessons once a week and has the rest of her time free to do subversive things like read and draw.

And the minivans were a real surprise to me, I can tell you.

By: DevilGrad

DevilGrad — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:12:12 +0000

Didn’t see any van operations in my neck of the DC (well, MD) ‘burbs, but we did have the usual handful of kids who were probably a year or two too old to be out trick-or-treating or out later than is generally deemed polite. On the plus side, my mother-in-law made popcorn balls, and I can’t remember the last time I actually ate one of those.

BTW, DCT’s comment in #19 about resume-building is so true it hurts.

By: DC Trojan

DC Trojan — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:32:00 +0000

Biggus, they’re not fat because they’re signed up for 7 extra-curricular sports. Never too early to work on the resume for [non-football playing northeastern "prestige" school of your choice].

BTW, if you did in fact manage kill a rabid dog with a glo-stick, I’d like some tips. Having managed to get bitten once while sledding, I plainly need all the help I can get.

By: Biggus Rickus

Biggus Rickus — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:21:16 +0000

No wonder kids are getting fatter. I’ve never heard of this minivan thing. In my day you walked from house to house in your uncomfortable rubber suit and plastic mask, up hill, both ways, and you liked it. Remind me to tell you about the time I killed a rabid dog with my glo-stick.

/ripping off Bill Cosby

By: DC Trojan

DC Trojan — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:11:53 +0000

Brian @ 15, it’s the first time in a long time that I’ve been in the ‘burbs for Halloween – like since 1987. Our old neighborhood in DC was awash with kids – there was somewhere in the range of 35 on our block alone – so it’s not like we didn’t have to subsidize juvenile sugar highs over the 8 years we were there. But the minivan? Please. Perhaps if the little bastards had said “thanks” or not rolled their eyes when they actually got “change for Unicef,”I might have been less Lloyd-Carr about it.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:39:27 +0000

#14 – DC Trojan, you are me when I reach that sad phase. I will be even worse because I never lived in a neighborhood growing up, so I dont know what the experience of Halloween is like from the other end – the giving end, which, needless to say, is not my strong suite. It wasn’t even rainy or that cold in DC last night. These are the same moms who tell their kids “great game” when they rode the pine all night. Next year, as retribution, just give them the ‘lil baggies of candy corn.

By: DC Trojan

DC Trojan — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:35:11 +0000

First hallowe’en in the burbs – the lazy little fuckers were getting transported around the neighbourhood in minivans in large groups so they wouldn’t have to exert themselves.

It’s bad enough I have to support this middle class begging, the least the idle sods could do is walk further than the distance from the side of the road to my front door.

And stay off my lawn, did I mention that I want them to stay off my lawn? Mannerless mendicant menaces, the lot of them.