Comments on: The littlest doorknockers

By: Nicole

Nicole — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:02:39 +0000

I hope your co-worker gets good news and more than a little acknowledgement that she’s been doing the job for a whole year.

Um, I was going to crack out the burgundy Snuggie. It’s scary! But if there’s mini Maltesers at risk I can get the knitting needles and start a pumpkin dress.

By: The Cat's Mother

The Cat's Mother — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:43:06 +0000

PS. Option B sounds good. I warn you the standard of fancy dress is quite high - more than a sheet with holes cut in it. (And I have been known to challenge the big teenagers & tell them they are too old for Trick or Treat!)

By: The Cat's Mother

The Cat's Mother — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:23:56 +0000

I have had a really good day. One of my co-workers is nervously waiting to hear if she has been appointed to the job she has been “acting” in for a year. Chocolate was just the thing.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:49:05 +0000

Next year, The Cat’s Mother? How about:

A) advertise on MySpace and have 500 sugar-fuelled teenagers rock up and trash your street
B) give me your address and I’ll take some lollies off your hands in a civilised manner (and even say thank you)

I’d go with option B.

(40 is a lot of kids usually though — no wonder you’re securing so many brownie points at work!)

By: The Cat's Mother

The Cat's Mother — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:11:24 +0000

I live in a street that has been big on Halloween and I have gone with the flow because we live in a house without kids and with two barking dogs. (The no porch light = not joining in is supposed to be the rule here too.) I usually get individually wrapped lollies so no danger of being accused of contamination.
We have had up to 40 trick or treaters - this year less than 10! And it was a Saturday night. I have enough mini malteasers, mars bars & cherry ripes to secure brownie points at work for weeks to come.
What to do next year?

By: Nicole

Nicole — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:36:07 +0000

Foodycat, I might send Fat Couriers over to collect those mint crisp Tim Tams — I find regular Tim Tams too sweet but the mint crisp is just right :-).

Geez, PurpleOwl, I’ve been hogging down the fresh oranges — I’d fill my pumpkin lolly holder with those as long as there was room for a lollypop or two as well!

By: ThePurpleOwl

ThePurpleOwl — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:55:36 +0000

We had a bowl of lollipops ready. Kids were seen in our street. No one came to our door.

Might have something to do with last year, when we had no idea what all the kids were doing in the street, had nothing sugary in the house, and offered everyone fresh oranges from the box we’d bought at the market that week. ‘When I was a kid’, my mum told some of the little people, ‘I got an orange for Christmas some years and it was really exciting’.

I think word got around. Anyone want a lollipop?

By: Foodycat

Foodycat — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:04:59 +0000

No one came past our place this year. Maybe because of the poor return last year? But our current chocolate stash consists of a single marron glace from an artisan chocolate shop that went bust, a bar of 70% from Grenada and half a packet of mint crisp tim tams. Not really worthwhile for a young chocolate fiend.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:31:48 +0000

During the day, lila! And it’s a safe street! Perhaps this area is competitive for goodies and there was a gang war earlier in the day for first trick or treating rights.

People gave you money, harps??? I’m all over that for next year. Slutty pirate here I come!!!

By: comradeharps

comradeharps — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:47:40 +0000

Remember, it’s daylight savings, so night’s falling around the little ones beddy byes time.

Let’s see, The Devil and Frankenstein with shades (yes, it was still sunny) got a heap of assorted lollies poured into the pumpkin (they were prepared), a small bag of potato chips (they weren’t prepared), 4 melted Redskins (they weren’t prepared, although since they were interrupted whilst horizontal on the couch, maybe they were prepared for something else) and a $5 note (again, not prepared but greatly appreciated).

If anyone had knocked on our door it would have been a choice between sugar and diary fueled cookies, some Cadbury’s diary milk primate chocloate or my …well, naturally sugar-free/diary free dark chocolate. I know which one mrs harps would have given the kiddies. Probably my last banana.