No trick or treaters

[pmoffitt]

pretzels for Halloween

My kids were going thru there Halloween candy last night. There about half way down the stash was the single serve airline style snack pretzels. The little bags the FA give out on Delta or ASA. I can't remember which it is.

My first thought was, wow time are so tough you have to swipe some pretzels to give out for Halloween night from the airline. I live in Boca(rent prices are exorbitantly too high), so I assume that is not the case and someone simply found someplace to buy them locally in the little individual packages.

Then my thought turned to oh, she is one of those people who used to give out apples rather than candy as "too much candy is a bad thing". As kids we used to put signs up in these peoples yards telling the other kids the where the neighborhood assclown was giving out the stupid apples.

 

[TurboS7]

A bunch of our FA's live in Boca, and we have or had tons of pretzels on our airplanes. But that is O.K. we just bill theD.O.D. for them. Your tax dollars at work.

 

[Slug]

Halloween

Thought I'd bring this up from last year,

Average number of kids - Friday nite helps,

no spongebobs



Slug

 

[FastCargo]

Hey...

Slug,

I was wondering why this thread popped up in my 'reply' alerts...I had forgotten all about it! Didn't realize it was a year old until I read my old post! All your fault man....

Have a great Halloween...and Dieterly still needs to relax...

Fly Safe!

FastCargo

 

[TurboS7]

What a diffrence a year makes. I just got back from playing 5.0 hours of baseball with my 20 year old son. Some kids came by the field and we traded a new baseball for some candy. Then we sat down and ate it. Lots of trick or treaters came to the house this year, we ran out of candy. Economy must be picking up.

 

[Gulfstream 200]

I can handle sponge bob...he's alright.

Its those F'n WIGGLES that I would like to smack..

 

[SDF2BUF2MCO]

Definitely more than last year. Agree that being a Friday night helped. Didn't see any Sponge Bob's. In fact, didn't see anything out of the ordinary except for some people dressing up their dogs which was kind of cute. First time I didn't go out with any of my kids (except when I've been out of town a couple of times), they all went out with their friends .

 

[banned username 2]

Good number of kids this year... my daughter (4 1/2) had a blast...

Lots of kids came dressed up... One even came dressed up as Dieterly.. he got a rock...

 

[Typhoon1244]

I've been giving out handfuls of the stuff I like getting as a kid...Almond Joy, Hersheys, Reeces cups, Tootsie Pops, 100 Grand, Kit Kats, etc. No hard candy or apples or any crap like that.

Had a twelve year old tell me "now you guys, like, really know how to give out candy..."

Probably had about fifty kids come by, total. I know a few turned back when they saw Captain Bonehead sitting on the porch. He's a foam-rubber skeleton wearing one of my old uniforms. And he has a green chem light stuck inside his skull. Maybe I overdid it...

One six year old pointed at the Captain and asked "why are you trying to make is scary?" I didn't get a chance to answer, but what I was thinking was: "well sh_t, what's Halloween for?"

Do kids not "get it" anymore?

 

[furlowedSF34]

I was F.Gump last year. I was off again this year as well. It was my 8 month old son's first Halloween. We had his picture taken in his bee costume. It was awsome.

Around 6:00, I fired up the grill and with flames leaping from it, I heard a gang of trick or treaters yell those flames are cool, let's go there. The chicken was good and we had several kids come by.

See ya

 

[Chunk]

What's scary is digging up a year old thread! See y'all next Halloween!

 

[saabcaptain]

3 rings the whole night, very disappointing as this is the first Halloween I haven't been on the road in years. Maybe 8 kids total with the 3 rings.

When I was a kid I too remember the seas of kids roaming the streets and needing bowls and bowls of candy so you didn't run out... the last few years in suburban Chicagoland have been weak.

Sad.

 

[Dominicinco]

Turbo, dont feel bad

I had no trick-or-treaters here in NYC because all the kids know better than to get caught doing that stuff here. Not that I live in a bad neighborhood, but for the past few years I been here I havent heard one single doorbell ring from stinky trick-or-treaters. I did however feel a bit concerned about eggings and imature kiddies. For instance, when I took my gf home tonight, we experienced an 'inexperienced egger' we were standing on the sidewalk waiting for the bus when this minivan pulls up with a bunch of kids inside. I knew something was fishy with the windows rolled down and some girl's head sticking out the window. So she tosses the egg 'softball' style and my gf and I are just standing there watching this egg land 10 feet away. Hilarious how she missed so badly while going so slow. I scream "What the *%) are you doing!" and chase after the car with my knife. If they hadn't droven off so fast one of them would be in ICU right now. probably all of them.

 

[GuppyPuppy]

We didn't have many tonight in San Jose. Maybe 18 or so.

About 10:40 tonight I heard a knock at the door with a lot of giggling from post-pubescent teens. I opened the door quickly and abruptly went out on the porch and sort of yelled at them (about 6-8) telling them it was too late. Now I'm walking outside every once in a while to check and see that they aren't vandalizing my truck. What a 'great' holiday this has become....I feel like I'm negotiating with terrorists ("Give me some candy or I'll throw eggs at your house and break your windshield").

Wish I could have been a little more creative with them than to just show my anger. Maybe I should have opened the door and taken their picture immediately!

Oh well......

Goodnight all-

GP

 

[FL000]

Life has finally come full circle for me...my car got egged.

 

[wanabe_fo]

in the sim

I got to spend this Halloween in the sim last night.

So no trick or treaters for me this year.

 

[empenage]

The first ring was my next door neighbor with his kids. The neighbor was Roy....Complete with tiger claw marks on his neck and his daughters huge stuffed tiger pinned to his back.

The second ring was his neighbor with his kids...He was in an inflatable female Sumo suit.....Pink bikini and all.

Today I get therapy.....

My eye keeps twitch'in.

 

[ahlmab]

We kept a count going and got a total of 75 trick-or-treaters.

I guess Halloween is still going strong up here in Minnesota.

 

[EOpilot]

Unbelievable. That's exactly what I went as. Big tiger claw gouges across my neck and my daughter's stuffed white tiger.

Am I, by any chance, your neighbor?

(and yes, I went with my kids)

 

[Stifler's Mom]

I was flying last night, so we decorated the cabin. Had a 3 Ft. tall Frankenstein doll in a seat, and the F/As handed out candy to all the PAX.

They seemed to have fun with it. Had a few kids on the flight as well. I would have killed my parents if they had made me miss Halloween to travel. Poor kids.