Halloween

**mark the shoeshine boy** · 10-31-2006, 03:50 AM

Well it's halloween....what great plans do you have tonight ??? What are your traditions....???

What about your costumes or your kids...what great ideas do you have this year ???

Take a pic and let's take a look at them....

mark the shoeshine boy

anyone dressing to look like me ????

**TimmyBoston** · 10-31-2006, 03:57 AM

Originally Posted by mark the shoeshine boy

mark the shoeshine boy

anyone dressing to look like me ????

I would but there's no way I can be that handsome.

**fuerein** · 10-31-2006, 04:00 AM

I plan on sitting in my apartment like most nights. Since I live in an apartment building that isn't exactly child-friendly, we don't get trick-or-treaters. I think the only child I have ever seen living in my building was a baby that belonged to a young couple. I don't think I've ever seen a school-age child in my building.

**MasonM** · 10-31-2006, 04:13 AM

I'm going to be hauling a fire rescue truck, oversized load, down to GA so I'll be spending the evening in some truckstop somewhere.

**Austin** · 10-31-2006, 04:15 AM

I plan on dressing up as Mark and scaring small children when they come to my door.

**Sue** · 10-31-2006, 04:35 AM

One of my "pumpkin's".
Sue

**Sue** · 10-31-2006, 04:39 AM

Ooops, now I don't see how to edit this HUGE photo.
Sue

**GeeQue** · 10-31-2006, 04:59 AM

I can remember when I was a boy the neighborhoods were saturated with kids treak or treating. When I was smaller, my parents would take me. As I became older, my buddies and I would go as a group. We were never involved in pranks. It was all clean fun.
As an adult, I have lived in this town for 23 years. There are plenty of kids in my neighborhood. If I have had 10 kids come up to our door for Holloween in the past 20 years, I would be exaggerating.
They all go to the mall in the evening where the stores hand out candy to costumed children. But regardless, I always stock up on candy for Holloween here at the house. Just in case. Then end up giving it away to my customers for the next few weeks.

**mark the shoeshine boy** · 10-31-2006, 06:09 AM

Originally Posted by Sue

Ooops, now I don't see how to edit this HUGE photo.
Sue

how special...it's the great pumpkin....

**soulshine** · 10-31-2006, 07:16 AM

what a cutie! the pic size is just fine.

s~s

**Scotto** · 10-31-2006, 08:01 AM

We'll go through 6-10 bags of candy; it is generally a free for all. We live in a really nice community, and people actually drive their kids over to our neighborhood and drop them off to trick-or-treat. Very annoying.

My older kids are Darth Vader and Anakin Skywalker this year. We'll find something for the baby as well.

**mark the shoeshine boy** · 10-31-2006, 08:07 AM

scotto... i hear that.... i seriously have kids bussed over from 40 miles away to hit our neighborhoods...

i like our dentist, he passes out toothbrushes....

**180gVinyl** · 10-31-2006, 08:22 AM

Hopefully avoiding ungrateful teenagers knocking on the door. They get something for nowt, yet still have a "hard done by" look on their faces when you give out sweets or biscuits.

"Trick or treat" is something that's a recent phenomenon in Britain. The supermarkets enjoy it because it gives them another product line I remember being in our New Jersey office four years ago and being gobsmacked by how big an event, Halloween is.

**fuerein** · 10-31-2006, 08:41 AM

One thing that annoyed me as a kid during trick or treating... When I got to be about 10-11 or so, all my friends were still trick or treating but I ended up stopping because 3/4 of the doors I went to got frustrated with me because they thought I was like 15-16 (I was tall for my age and frequently got mistaken for being much older than I was) and too old to participate. Sorry had to rant.

**Tinzien** · 10-31-2006, 08:42 AM

I'm wearing my great kilt at work ^^

**MasonM** · 10-31-2006, 08:46 AM

Originally Posted by Tinzien

I'm wearing my great kilt at work ^^

That's actually pretty cool (no pun intended). I've been wanting an authentic Irish kilt for years but alas, they are so expensive.

**rikrdo** · 10-31-2006, 09:06 AM

Originally Posted by mark the shoeshine boy

Well it's halloween....what great plans do you have tonight ??? What are your traditions....???

What about your costumes or your kids...what great ideas do you have this year ???

Take a pic and let's take a look at them....

mark the shoeshine boy

anyone dressing to look like me ????

I havent ordered my QED french clay.,...yet !

Typical Halloween for us...
Walk the 'hood with the kids..
Wait for my mother to come over and create drama and mass hysteria.

**BlackLabelBrewer** · 10-31-2006, 09:11 AM

I'm in my old labcoat, silver nitrate stains and all. I have a sign by my door reading "Mad Scientist at Work." And I have one of these bubbling away on my desk (the heart).

**Tinzien** · 10-31-2006, 09:37 AM

Originally Posted by MasonM

That's actually pretty cool (no pun intended). I've been wanting an authentic Irish kilt for years but alas, they are so expensive.

To get my clan tartan imported would run me $450 minimum. This tartan is a generic social one and the 15' of wool ran me $150. This is a picture from Renn Faire taken two weeks ago.

The lass in yellow is my girlfriend and the lass in blue is a coworker and good friend of mine - She is the one who made the outfits they are wearing (and yes, the designs are copyrighted)

It's not the best picture but ah well.

**galopede** · 10-31-2006, 10:10 AM

Going out to a pub traditional music session as usual on a Tuesday night, and hoping my house doesn't get vandalised by any of the so called trick or treat thugs who smash windows and slash car tyres if you don't give them enough cash.

Our British yobs have never got the idea of the American trick or treat!

Gareth