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Well its Halloween tomorrow, now i think its safe to assume that no one here goes out to trick or treat anymore, but do you give if people know at door? No one knocks at my door in the past couple of years, not really bothered but id love to get into the spirit of things... so i have http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSVJgUMJ2-A

'Trick or Treat' is something of a US import which I don't really agree with. I don't normally answer my front door anyway if I'm not expecting someone, but a couple of years ago I was rewarded by the 'tricksters' spraying blue string over my front door (fairly harmless) and then engraving illegible words onto the boot of my car (which cost £1,000 to have resprayed and loss of my no-claims bonus).

So, no, I won't be 'treating' anyone who dares to knock on my door.

Stuart* wrote:'Trick or Treat' is something of a US import which I don't really agree with. I don't normally answer my front door anyway if I'm not expecting someone, but a couple of years ago I was rewarded by the 'tricksters' spraying blue string over my front door (fairly harmless) and then engraving illegible words onto the boot of my car (which cost £1,000 to have resprayed and loss of my no-claims bonus).

So, no, I won't be 'treating' anyone who dares to knock on my door.

I'm pretty sure that the far-superior act of guising predates Trick-or-treating though.

Oh, and I'm in such a posh bit of Dunders that I shall be switching off all my lights, locking my doors and answering to no-one.

onetrickpony wrote:Well its Halloween tomorrow, now i think its safe to assume that no one here goes out to trick or treat anymore, but do you give if people know at door? No one knocks at my door in the past couple of years, not really bothered but id love to get into the spirit of things... so i have http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSVJgUMJ2-A

Nope... although I am going to the morgue tomorrow night.

Playing darts tomorrow, and the place we're playing in has no atmosphere whatsoever.

lukey wrote:Oh, and I'm in such a posh bit of Dunders that I shall be switching off all my lights, locking my doors and answering to no-one.

do the guisers expect methadone in hilltown then?

Stuart Maconie had a good line about "trick or treat" this morning: it's a shame that this American custom has taken over from the British custom of "penny for the guy" - the one opportunity in the year for children to demand money with menaces in order to buy explosives.

I guess trick or treating is really just the Christmas Conundrum all over again. The Christmas Conundrum states that life would be much easier if at Christmas everyone just gave each other a pound. By the same token, theoretically everyone trick or treats. In practice, only greedy selfish people do. Accordingly, I am more than slightly tempted to open the door dressed terrifyingly and say “Trick or Treat” before they get it in, grab their chocolate, and slam it. I suspect I could work up rather a large amount of fatally poisoned candy that way.

Stuart* wrote:'Trick or Treat' is something of a US import which I don't really agree with. I don't normally answer my front door anyway if I'm not expecting someone, but a couple of years ago I was rewarded by the 'tricksters' spraying blue string over my front door (fairly harmless) and then engraving illegible words onto the boot of my car (which cost £1,000 to have resprayed and loss of my no-claims bonus).

Serves you right for being a tight bastard.

I'll prob do the same as always. Spend hours making myself look pretty ( that won't take you long i hear you say.. I HEAR YOU SAY)
Then scare the life out of the trick or treaters when they knock on the door. Then i nick their sweets.
A job well done.

I was never allowed to go Trick of Treating when I was younger - my mum always thought it amounted to begging - which I suppose is true in a way.

Anyways, the Police in my local area have distributed some tacky posters - on one side it says "NO Halloween Callers Please", the other says "We welcome Halloween callers with children in fancy dress."

Quite handy really, although it looks like a PowerPoint effort. I'll be answering the door (which will be covered in fake blood and cobwebs come tomorrow), got some cheap sweets to give out - only one or two callers came last year, which left me with a load of chocolate to feast on

Sput wrote:

Stuart* wrote:'Trick or Treat' is something of a US import which I don't really agree with. I don't normally answer my front door anyway if I'm not expecting someone, but a couple of years ago I was rewarded by the 'tricksters' spraying blue string over my front door (fairly harmless) and then engraving illegible words onto the boot of my car (which cost £1,000 to have resprayed and loss of my no-claims bonus).

Serves you right for being a tight bastard.

I'll pop round and get some irresponsible kids to scribble on your beemer when you've got one, Sput.