Comments on: The Day before Halloween

By: sandy

sandy — Fri, 01 Nov 2002 05:00:59 +0000

Wish my husband were home…although he isn’t crazy about the kids coming and going and the dog going crazy. But I love it.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 01 Nov 2002 03:45:33 +0000

We haven’t seen it here in Berkeley, but I hear that trick or treating started last weekend in other parts of the Bay Area, too. Boo, hiss!

I say Halloween should be the last Saturday in October, just like Thanksgiving is the last Thurs in November and Easter is the Sunday that falls 12 weeks after the Assumption or whatever. Ooh, it would correspond with Daylight Savings, if we did it that way. That’d be cool. Yeah.

By: mig

mig — Thu, 31 Oct 2002 01:48:30 +0000

A little more recent here – I think it’s about 5 years old here. Beta mentioned tonight that we sort of started celebrating it after our trip to Ireland to pick up her harp, which was 5 years ago (she was impressed by Halloween preparations going on there, and went trick or treating in Dublin with friends).

By: Shelagh

Shelagh — Thu, 31 Oct 2002 00:19:08 +0000

Is trick-or-treaing a recent thing in Austria? Kids didn’t start doing it in the uk until about 10 years ago.

By: miguel

miguel — Wed, 30 Oct 2002 20:18:49 +0000

They would egg my house, 100% certain.

By: Joeri

Joeri — Wed, 30 Oct 2002 20:12:19 +0000

And what if you were to pass out Zwetschenkn

By: miguel

miguel — Wed, 30 Oct 2002 19:42:47 +0000

Eh, tried that last year. It was really hard to get some of them to take a drink, man. “Here, little kid, just one sip!”

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 30 Oct 2002 19:14:56 +0000

You might be a lot more popular with the kids in your neighborhood if you keep the candy for yourself and pass out shots of whiskey to all comers.

It would make for a good story, anyway.

By: kismet

kismet — Wed, 30 Oct 2002 18:13:15 +0000

we bought candy that was all individually wrapped, just in case we get trick-or-treaters, but I doubt it. I don’t think they are any kids in our building. sniff.