*** Ghosted by the Trick-or-Treaters — Now It’s November LC Chat***

The appearance of a new wolly thread probably scared them off.

Nice to see the restraint folks are showing by not going for the bait so far.

I haven't had any trick-or-treaters except relatives by appointment for the past 20 years. It's great!

I think I can beat all of you. A few years ago around this time it occurred to me that since I've always lived in secure buildings with very few kids around, I've never had a single trick-or-treater in my entire life!

fond memories of tricks and treats as a kid who was always pissed off when the pixie sticks broke in the bottom of my pillowcase

show of hands

[ ] ever throw an egg at something not frying pan?
[ ] ever take some sort of vengance against pumpkin, mail box, or house because you got no treats?
[ ] ever toss a yard with only six rolls of scott comfort plus?
[ ] ever feel an intentional urge for spiking hard candy with valuable product to create a salacious fox news headline?

[ ] ever throw an egg at something not frying pan?
[ ] ever take some sort of vengance against pumpkin, mail box, or house because you got no treats?
[ ] ever toss a yard with only six rolls of scott comfort plus?
[ ] ever feel an intentional urge for spiking hard candy with valuable product to create a salacious fox news headline?

For some years before I got the dealing gig (so generally not around on Halloween now), we had a tradition going in the cul-de-sac. Neighbors and I would get out our fire pits for a warm-up spot.

In addition to candy, I would have treats for people walking their dogs.

Also, I would always have a cooler of beer out. The neighbors would generally have something like cider, which they'd offer to dump some rum or whatever in. So we have treats for mom & dad too.

Everybody came to our cul-de-sac.

We never did anything on Halloween that we wouldn't do on any other night. We figured let the dumbasses get caught and they would likely be the ones blamed for other unsolved mischief in the neighborhood.

My worst memory of Halloween was getting a dime (probably worth $1000 in today's dollars) from an obviously unprepared home, and then getting home only to discover that I had been dragging my paper trick-or-treat bag on the street and worn a hole in the bottom of it. Not only did I lose the dime, but I lost some primo candy as well. Traumatic!

Is it really hard for you to understand that there are people out there who weren't raised in ,,parenting houses'' and don't have the vocabulary of a count,duke?

heard it described here as likely to increase probability of plussing me up two by two toward my hobbiest cultural anthropologizer friends of these web domain edges are equalling their fuzzy woolly mammoth math of ways how not to start a thread paragraph

humans all unsated by barely finding ways of taming red tide elephants yet somehow still have room and gumption for tackling other larger tusked animal topics

while always watching how the next herd of skull-horned grass-snorting yak and other sort of bison population grazing upon high plains, steppes and northern plateaus often end up blasted by the deepest artic winter winds

heard it described as likely to increase probability of plussing me up two by two toward my hobbiest cultural anthropologizer friends of these web domain edges are equalling their fuzzy woolly mammoth math of ways how not to start a thread paragraph

humans all unsated by barely finding ways of taming red tide elephants yet somehow still have room and gumption for tackling other larger tusked animals within adjacent space

while always watching how the next herd of skull-horned grass-snorting yak and other sort of bison population grazing upon high plains, steppes and northern plateaus often end up blasted by the deepest artic winter winds yet somehow survive every time

Never did any of the above Halloween skulduggery, but we did once go out in our costumes, hit the entire neighborhood, then go home and change costumes and hit the whole neighborhood again.

Our pillow cases looked like they had actual pillows in them.

what the sam double hell hockey stick just happened

My neighborhood does some crazy **** for Halloween. Food trucks, dj, and wayyy too many people.

ghastly!

I can say the same and I'm probably older than you, so I win! My current house is hardly a security place, and in the 9 years that I've lived in it, zero trick-or-treaters. But that's because I've bought candy just in case. Guaranteed if I have no candy next year the doorbell will be ringing off the hook.

I did see something weird though this year. A couple three nights ago I saw a couple with two kids walking down the street. It was too dark to see what they were wearing, but the kids were carrying paper bags with glow-in-the-dark jack-o-lanterns printed on them. Why would they trick-or-treat early when the real thing was Friday?

Maybe walking to a trunk or treat or something similar.

A couple of towns near me trick-or-treated a day early due to a rivalry HS football game on Friday night.

Back in the midwest, DSM had "beggar's night" on a different night than Halloween. Don't remember for sure, but want to say it was an acknowledgement that adults might be out partying, and was an attempt to separate the two groups. Maybe only if Halloween was on the weekend?

Yeah, wanted no part of trick or treaters. Game 6 of WS and Halloween on a Friday is obviously a go night when you are single.

Columbus, OH does trick-or-treating on the night of Halloween unless it falls on a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday. When it falls on those days, trick-or-treating is on the Thursday before Halloween.

Having only lived here a few years, I tried to figure out why. Have heard a few different reasons. Some say to avoid conflict with high school, college, and NFL games. Others say it is to keep kids safe from those out partying on the weekends and potential drunk drivers.

Some of the small suburbs still observe trick-or-treating on Halloween night, so kids can easily have 2 nights of collecting candy. There are also stops along the way with jello shots and other adult beverages as well.

Which free antivirus software are you guys running for a windows PC? The laptop came with a year if Norton, but Im not installing that crap.

Have only really used chromebooks for the past few years so I'm out of the loop. Read that Avast, AVG, Microsoft Defender, and Bitdefender are all solid. Any one of those in particular stand out?

Microsoft security that comes with Windows is fine.

This and common sense are really all you need. I haven’t used an anti-virus in 15 years.

My mother-in-law continues to use Norton as some sort of tribute to her husband that died six years ago ("Paul always thought we needed it"), despite me telling her it's over-priced, slows down her computer, and is just one giant piece of adware. It's very frustrating.