How Many Trick-Or-Treaters?

[calliopes_pen]

I had a grand total of 92 trick-or-treaters last night, as they all came from 5:30 PM, until 8 PM. Having only 8 or 9 pieces of candy left in the bowl, I turned out the lights.

50 of those trick-or-treaters came within a ten-minute span of time. We had one quite disturbing little boy who had a real machete. He was angry with his little sister, and slammed the machete into our yard about half up the blade. He tore it back out and screamed to the heavens, while she laughed at him. And then, he stalked over, put on a smile, and very politely requested candy.

I gave him the most (five pieces) of all. Costumes of note (well, the first 15 kids weren’t dressed up in anything but normal clothing.) include a boy that dressed as what looked like a giant blueberry. It was almost Willy Wonka style. He walked up and down the street, but never came by my house, so I couldn’t ask what he was.

1 little boy had been dressed as Trump Taco, minus the Trump mask. Sweet kid; terrible costume choice from his family. The more interesting thing that I spotted would be the two people dressed in T-Rex costumes. Fully done with long tail, teeny arms, tiny cut-out in the throat to see, large head with fangs, etc… Their parents carried the bag for candy, because they couldn’t.

There was one child I didn’t see at first, as he came after dark, and was dressed head to toe in black, and a black mask. When he touched a button, you could then see two glowing red eyes in the dark. So I saw that “floating” up the ramp. And either he came by again, or someone else had the same costume with another group, for I spotted two more glowing red eyes later.

Comments

[shadowcat]

We took my five year old niece dressed as a pirate vampire out trick or treating last night. We saw some cute costumes (a little girl dressed up as fairy princess being walked by her big brother dressed up as Ash from Pokemon) and saw one little boy dressed up as Trump -- his mother was Hillary and his dad was Secret Service.

[sallymn]

Holy Hannah... being as it's not a big thing here anyway, we weren't expecting many, we actually got none at all. So the folk at work got candy for the big bad day of the year...

[frenchroast.livejournal.com]

We only had 13 trick or treaters, so by the time the last 5 or so came around, I told them to just take a handful of candy, LOL. We still have plenty of leftover candy because I allllllways way overbuy out of a fear of not having enough.

[phoenixfire12.livejournal.com]

I live in an apartment building and since we have 3 floors I guess no one wants to drag their children up and down 3 flights of stairs. Can't say as I blame them. Besides you never know what the weather is gong to be, or the trustworthiness of people you don't know. In established neighborhoods it's different, kids running to the doors of people's homes. At least you know they won't be pulling a midnight move if things suddenly go wrong.