Who Turned Off Halloween?
Saturday, November 01, 2008 Posted In bribe money , candy , Countess Dracula , Great Oak High School , Halloween , ice queen , kids , nerd , Poobah , rugby , scientists Edit This 1 Comment »
Did you get a memo from the Halloween Poobah saying Halloween is cancelled?
We left the house at around 7pm to go trick or treating. There was NOBODY around! People told us we were their first t.o.t ers! We walked down the street, turned the corner and emptiness! We checked our phones, ok, we got the date right. We checked the time, we're not too early. Shrug. Oh well.
We were quite prepared to be the only Countess Dracula (yes, it was a late name-change for C.), Rugby player with stripey socks and Nerd, oops I mean Scientist. The Ice Queen was at a party so she didn't come with us. Me? I went as a Tired Housewife...
The Ice Queen hates this pic (she didn't have all of her makeup on yet) so don't tell her I put it on here.
The geek/scientist... gorgeous!
Rugby man, "Take the picture already, I want to go!" Me- "Hang on, I haven't quite got the whole rubbish bin in the shot."
"Smile Countess!".... "No."
The kids were too scared to walk up to the house so HE came to US!
Posing with "It".
I thought this was an actual person on the roof ready to jump on us!
Some decorations were truly scary...!
So anyway, it took about 45 minutes for more Halloweeners to join us on the streets. Even then, there were less than half of the people we saw last year. It was a mystery..... until we drove past the Pumpkin Patch. There must have been HUNDREDS of cars overflowing the carparks. It was free night from 6 til 9. Can you imagine kids choosing to play on jumpies rather than go get candy? Our kids were like, "What's up with THAT?"
So then we found out that Great Oak High School had a game blah, blah, whatever... (can you tell I'm a diehard football fan?) so that's where the other half of the population was. Mystery solved. Halloween is intact. Too bad.
Here's the damage...
We decided to go with "The Bribe". One rule only - No Candy Purchases To Be Made With Bribe Money.
So, final tally, Ice Queen, 210 pieces = $10.50
The Countess, 151 pieces = $7.55
Rugby Man, 146 pieces = $7.30
We left the house at around 7pm to go trick or treating. There was NOBODY around! People told us we were their first t.o.t ers! We walked down the street, turned the corner and emptiness! We checked our phones, ok, we got the date right. We checked the time, we're not too early. Shrug. Oh well.
We were quite prepared to be the only Countess Dracula (yes, it was a late name-change for C.), Rugby player with stripey socks and Nerd, oops I mean Scientist. The Ice Queen was at a party so she didn't come with us. Me? I went as a Tired Housewife...
The Ice Queen hates this pic (she didn't have all of her makeup on yet) so don't tell her I put it on here.
The geek/scientist... gorgeous! 
Rugby man, "Take the picture already, I want to go!" Me- "Hang on, I haven't quite got the whole rubbish bin in the shot."
"Smile Countess!".... "No."
The kids were too scared to walk up to the house so HE came to US!
Posing with "It".
I thought this was an actual person on the roof ready to jump on us!
Some decorations were truly scary...!
So anyway, it took about 45 minutes for more Halloweeners to join us on the streets. Even then, there were less than half of the people we saw last year. It was a mystery..... until we drove past the Pumpkin Patch. There must have been HUNDREDS of cars overflowing the carparks. It was free night from 6 til 9. Can you imagine kids choosing to play on jumpies rather than go get candy? Our kids were like, "What's up with THAT?"
So then we found out that Great Oak High School had a game blah, blah, whatever... (can you tell I'm a diehard football fan?) so that's where the other half of the population was. Mystery solved. Halloween is intact. Too bad.
Here's the damage...
We decided to go with "The Bribe". One rule only - No Candy Purchases To Be Made With Bribe Money.
So, final tally, Ice Queen, 210 pieces = $10.50
The Countess, 151 pieces = $7.55
Rugby Man, 146 pieces = $7.30
I have to shell out $25.35 and I have bucket loads of sugar but I still feel like a WINNER!
Candy, anyone?
Candy, anyone?
1 brilliant observations:
Great costumes and even greater idea with the bribe/no candy thing. I think I will copy since my kids are already bouncing off the ceiling!!
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