• IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 month ago

    My favourite was from last year.

    I set up my pumpkins outside, leave the lights on and door brightly lit to let everyone know I’m serving candy.

    Most of everyone in the neighbourhood leave a bowl or box of candy at the door to let kids serve themselves. I’m one of the few that actually goes to the door to serve the kids. … I love this stuff and I always make sure to have a good supply of chocolates, candies and chips to give out in good portions for everyone.

    A little girl in a princess outfit gets to my door without my noticing, she opens the door, steps in … she must have seen the four big boxes of chocolates, candies and chips in front of her … and she only reached in and took one tiny little chocolate!!!

    I got to the door just after she left … she stopped, said ‘Trick or Treat … I got my candy, thank you!’ … I stopped her and told her to come back and gave her way more candy than any other kid that year … I couldn’t believe that she only took that little bit of candy. She was wide eyed, happy and giggled and ran off into the night … best trick or treater that year.

    This year I bought a whole mess of chocolates, candies and chips and probably bought too much … my wife absolutely hates me for it but I love this holiday and I spend more money on this than on Christmas. I served over a hundred kids and gave them tons of stuff but I still had quite a bit left over.

    I kept waiting after 9:00pm and the kids started to disappear and no one was around … my wife said it was over but I kept waiting because I wanted to dump my remaining supply to anyone that appeared. A couple of goofy teenagers arrived. One was in a Mike Myers costume and other guy didn’t even have a bag and was dressed in a bloody suit. I told them it was their lucky night and I dumped the remainder of my first box to the Myers kid … then gave a spare pillow case to the other guy and filled up his bag … they were both acting goofy and thought I would be another adult that would make fun of them but instead they were really happy to get all the candy. I was happy to give it all up because I had been snacking on sugar for the past six hours. They were two of the happiest kids of the night for me.