Daily Archives: October 31, 2005


Very disapointing Halloween

It was a very disappointing Halloween this year. We got about 40 to 50 Trick-or-Treaters this year. I guess it could have been because it was a Monday. I also think it has to do with the mentality of the country these days. My daughter school wouldn’t let the kids wear costumes but the high school was what is up with that? Anyway, the TOTers that we did get we scared and a few jumped back when they saw Billy Bob in the car. With the number of people we got is making me rethink my ideas for a haunt next year since we didn’t get a lot of people, but we will see.

Ways to confuse TOTers

1.. Give away something other than candy. (Toothpicks, golf balls, bags of sand, etc…….)
2.. Wait behind the door until some people come. When they get near the door, jump out, wearing a costume, and holding a bag, and yell, “Trick or Treat!” Look at them, scratch your head, and act confused.
3.. Fill a briefcase with marbles and crackers. Write on it, “Top Secret” in big letters. When trick-or-treaters come, look around suspiciously, say, “It’s about time you got here,” give them the briefcase, and quickly shut the door.
4.. Get about 30 people to wait in your living room. When trick-or- treaters come to the door, say, “Come in.” When they do, have everyone yell, “Surprise!!!” Act like it’s a surprise party.
5.. Get everyone who comes to the door to come in and see if they can figure out what’s wrong with your dishwasher. Insist that it makes an unnatural “whirring” sound.
6.. After you give them candy, hand the trick-or-treaters a bill.
7.. Open the door dressed as a giant fish. Immediately collapse, and don’t move or say anything until the trick-or-treaters go away.
8.. When you answer the door, hold up one candy bar, throw it out into the street, and yell, “Crawl for it!”
9.. When you answer the door, look at the trick-or-treaters, act shocked and scared, and start screaming your head off. Slam the door and runaround the house, screaming until they go away.
10.. Insist that the trick-or-treaters each do ten pushups before you give them any candy.
11.. Hand out menus to the trick-or-treaters and let them order their candy. Keep asking if anyone wants to see the wine list.
12.. Get a catapult. Sit on your porch and catapult pumpkins at anyone who comes within 50 yards of your house.
13.. When people come to the door, jump out a nearby window, crashing through the glass, and run as far away from your house as you can.
14.. Answer the door dressed as a pilgrim. Stare at the trick-or- treaters for a moment, pretend to be confused, and start flipping through a calendar.
15.. Instead of candy, give away colored eggs. If anyone protests, explain that the eggs are the only thing you had left over from Easter.
16.. Answer the door dressed as a dentist. Angrily give the trick-or- treaters a two-hour lecture on tooth decay.
17.. Answer the door with a mouthful of M & M’s and several half-eaten candy bars in your hands. Act surprised, and close the door. Open it again in a few seconds, and insist that you don’t have any candy.
18.. Put a crown on a pumpkin and put the pumpkin on a throne on your porch. Insist that all of the trick-or-treaters bow before the pumpkin

I need a warm body

So Saturday night was our Haloween party at the house and the guy in the previous post was sitting in my car in the front yard. Most of the kids in the neightborhood got to see him and checked him out. Now I need a warm body to put on the mask and costume and sit in the car and scare the trick or treaters tonight.

The New Employee at my job

I was on my way to work this morning and at the light I looked over and saw this scary guy at the light. I was quick with the camera and snapped a quick photo .


I didn’t think much of it and headed to 7-Eleven to get a cup of coffee and by my loto ticket. I took my time getting to work. When I got in I found that the doors were already open and that we had a new employee. He sure looks at home in his new office…..