Dear Trick-or-Treaters

[yendi]

Where the fuck are you?

So far, I've had a princess, and a Spider-Man (the classic costume, not the Secret Wars/Third Movie pre-Venom one).

That's it.

I know that we're on a small street, but you'd think kids would hit every house they could.

Don't make me eat all these fucking Kit-Kats myself.

Love,

yendi

Comments

[losgunna.livejournal.com]

Every year we don't get a single freaking Halloween kid. Every freaking year. And yet, every freaking year we buy a bag of candy, "just in case".

*sigh*

[crwilley.livejournal.com]

I'm not getting any either. We've had like 4 groups come by, mostly older kids. I saw another group walk right by my house, which prompted a WTF.

[nomadmwe.livejournal.com]

You can have some of mine. They come for me in the night.

[tempestmir.livejournal.com]

This is our first year in this neighbourhood, so I asked some folks on the street what to expect. They told me we usually get a good showing and that other towns drive there kids around here, because it's safer, so I bought a metric f-ton and have had...*counts* 6 kids.

I'm going to be eating Snickers for breakfast for a year. Awesome.

[eustaciavye.livejournal.com]

i've had a Hippie, spongebob, winnie the pooh, GI Joe, a glam rock chick, a couple of vampires. But people will keep turning up for at least another hour.

[norda.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised at the low turnout myself. As I mentioned in my latest entry, we usually get thirty-five to fifty kids, and this year we've not yet cracked twenty at just before 8PM.

Pity. We're giving away Daleks, as I said.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

We'll take a Dalek!

[norda.livejournal.com]

Hee!

They were quite a hit, as were the Moxx.

[allah-sulu.livejournal.com]

We haven't gotten any. Don't think there were [m]any last year, either.

I'm pretty certain it's the location.

Le sigh....

[twilyght-zone.livejournal.com]

I am still waiting for a single child to knock on the door. I know they are out there somewhere....

[jdotmi.livejournal.com]

You can send them to me! Okay, so I live absolutely nowhere even remotely close to you, but Kit-Kats are worth it!

[dustyskinandall.livejournal.com]

I've had one group of three and one group of two kids and parents.

I'm hoping there will be a few more 'cause i don't even like Snickers!

[clawfoot.livejournal.com]

We never get too many, mostly because we live on the street that serves as the border between "upper class" and "middle class" housing (I guess that means we're "upper-middle class"?), so all the kids walk the extra block to the upper class houses because they have better candy.

It was true when I was a kid, too. I did the same thing. Some of those houses hand out full-size chocolate bars. And full-size cans of pop. And fistfuls of caramels.

[kradical.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain, man. We haven't gotten any, and this is a residential neighborhood......

*stares at Kit Kats and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups*

[litch.livejournal.com]

I think the time change (or lack of) is messing with people

[litch.livejournal.com]

I've had a few but it's been light.

Of course there's an armed bank robber (http://litch.livejournal.com/525520.html) running around, which could have something to do with it.

[jiffjenn.livejournal.com]

I got Halloween Heart Break when I didn't get one door bell ring...Not one tricker-treater last year. Then I found out that no one in St Louis City brings their kids out to the whole door to door thing....bastards. I think it has turned into one of those suburb things.

[nishar.livejournal.com]

We didn't get any at all. Maybe local churches are holding halloween parties and that is where all the kids are?

[themaskmaker.livejournal.com]

Whereas we ran out of candy by 7:30, and the kids still kept coming. We raided my kid's bucket for all the stuff he doesn't like, and managed to have enough for about five more kids. We've got all the lights off now, and we're hiding in the basement. And there are still kids out there -- although it's older kids now.

[rubian77.livejournal.com]

Ditto on that - though I was out by 7:20ish.

At least I lasted 20 minutes longer than last year....

[cissa.livejournal.com]

I am so jealous. I would LOVE getting 50-100+ kids, and we just don't.

[themaskmaker.livejournal.com]

We never used to at our old house. But now we live in a suburb that is considered safe and family-friendly. I do love it.

[cissa.livejournal.com]

We got maybe 30-36. Not many wee ones this time, and that's usually a reliable age group. OK, yeah, they're growing up- but we didn't get many of the ones that USED to be wee ones, either.

We did get a couple largish (for here) groups of ones roughly Elayna's age. It was cool, because they really did up the costumes! Basically, we don't care how old any trick-or-treaters are, as long as they're in costume. We tend to not much like the older boys who don't costume and who just order us to give them candy. :P ...Although one set of older boys was pretty funny a couple of years ago. This was a high-school-aged group, and it was a tiny, adorable perky cheerleader type dressed as a fairy princess, with about 5 attendant football players who were horribly, terribly embarrassed to be doing this. :)

Anyway, one of the older kids told us that they made a point of coming to our house "because it's SHINY!" So our decorations worked some in luring the goblins.