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Only in Hingham: When people run out of candy, they start handing out cash. Seriously.
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Some people can't take a hint
By rsybuchanan
Mon, 10/31/2011 - 9:56pm
I always seem to get trick-or-treaters, despite never having the porch light on, and no candy in the house. Some of the little buggers are really insistent that I owe them a treat, so I always end up handing out whatever food is closest to hand.
I hope you kids enjoy the potatoes.
why would you even answer the
By TPN
Mon, 10/31/2011 - 11:40pm
why would you even answer the door?
On the off chance you actually care
By rsybuchanan
Tue, 11/01/2011 - 1:41pm
For most of the kids I don't bother. They ring once and then take the hint that maybe standing in the dark on a porch that's hard to see from the street in a largely-industrial part of Somerville isn't the best idea they've ever had. I think they start to realized that, if I timed it right, nobody would hear their screams over the roar of the commuter rail.
On the other hand, the "kids" who stand on my porch for 5 minutes ringing the bell and pounding on the door non-stop and hollering "we know you're in there" are going to egg my place no matter what I do so I might as well fuck with 'em and get my money's worth. They also tend to be older (middle school or young high school) and almost exclusively male.
Get some damn candy!
By BostonUrbEx
Tue, 11/01/2011 - 12:45am
Mr. Grinch! :)
I realize that my response is late, but
By anon
Tue, 11/01/2011 - 8:19am
Why not just put out a sign saying "Out of Treats"? Just an idea for future Hallowe'ens.
Bad idea
By Cutriss
Tue, 11/01/2011 - 9:16am
That sign may as well say "Egg my house".
And handing potatoes out says
By HenryAlan
Tue, 11/01/2011 - 9:33am
don't egg my house?
Of course it does
By Kaz
Tue, 11/01/2011 - 10:56am
You need the eggs to put into the potato salad.
Out anon couch warrior
By anon²
Tue, 11/01/2011 - 10:05am
Will probably be back with some sort of 2nd amendment reference.
I disagree, Cutriss.
By anon
Wed, 11/02/2011 - 10:55am
The majority of kids, regardless of their age, understand that "out of treats" means out of treats, and the ones who have tantrums and egg somebody's house as a consequence should be brought to justice and the police allowed to discipline them as needed. A kid goes over to the house and sees the sign "out of treats"? Tough! Let him/her live with it, and deal with it.
By the time I get home from work (usually 6:45 to 7),
By roadman
Tue, 11/01/2011 - 9:24am
trick or treat is well underway in my neighborhood. Because of this, and given that my cats always try to escape when I open the door, I haven't given out candy on Halloween in several years. To discourage would-be trick-or-treaters from ringing the bell, I not only keep the front light off, but all the downstairs lights off as well.
And so far (knock on wood), I've haven't once had my house egged or TP'ed for not giving out candy.
This happened in Roslindale
By Dave
Mon, 10/31/2011 - 10:07pm
This happened in Roslindale when I was a kid.
Still does
By Jeff F not logged in
Tue, 11/01/2011 - 2:09am
Here in Rosi, there have been couple times when my daughter has been encouraged to take a handfull of coins from a spare change jar. This seems perfectly normal to me - it was the same when i was kid. Since our older neighbors knew my bro and i collected coins, we were told to plunge our hands down to the bottom. We'd get the coins that had gone in years ago - would miss the quarters and most dimes, but would be rewarded with wheat and steel pennies and even the occasional buffalo or indian head nickel. Better than candy for sure!
At least one Kid with a Louis Vuitton Trick or treat bag
By Denise
Tue, 11/01/2011 - 7:53am
A friend observed this while handing out candy last night - oy.
My son should have had one!
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 11/01/2011 - 9:02am
He went out dressed as the Monopoly Tycoon with a "1%" sign on his hat. A Louis Vuitton bag would have complimented the spirit of the costume (although he won his school's costume contest as it was ...)
The poor lad was reduced to using a leather goods bag that I got when buying my handbag in Spain.
When people said "why should we, the 99%, give YOU candy" he replied "I'm going to eat your candy. I'm going to eat it all up!" in his best Daniel Day Lewis imitation ...
We had an unexpectedly high
By erik g
Tue, 11/01/2011 - 8:21am
We had an unexpectedly high number of trick-or-treaters, and ran out of candy a little after 8. We were the only ones in the building who were answering the door, so I went to try to mooch something off of the upstairs neighbors, and got a big bag of Dum Dums for my troubles. Problem is, I still residually hate those damned lollipops from when I used to get them as trick-or-treat swag when I was a kid. We had a big thing of homemade chocolate cookies, which I thought would be way better to hand out, until my wife pointed out that parents would probably think they were laced with cyanide and would make their kids throw them out, since they weren't individually wrapped. So, Dum Dums it was.
I've become everything I hate.
Dum Dums at Halloween?
By Cutriss
Tue, 11/01/2011 - 9:18am
I thought those are permanently reserved for bank tellers. I mean, as a kid, I even thought at one point that they were made exclusively for banks.
parents would probably think
By Ron Mexico
Wed, 11/02/2011 - 7:20am
"Dumb Dumbs" indeed, sir. http://www.snopes.com/horrors/poison/halloween.asp
I'm short enough to pass for a kid ...
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 11/01/2011 - 8:42am
Sounds like a costume and a road trip are in order for next year!
Do they give the help a night off?
running out of candy
By TessOD
Tue, 11/01/2011 - 11:26am
Where I grew up in PA we always received money on Halloween but we had to perform...we sang Halloween songs, danced, played the accordion and even twirled the baton.
We were always told not to go to any bars and that was the first place we would hit...just walk down the bar with our bag open and the money would follow. We also received candy but the money was the best.....
The place is Scranton, Pa...Minooka section...we did it for two days...what a blast!
Ah yes, "Tricks for Treats!"
By Jeff F
Tue, 11/01/2011 - 2:24pm
Wrt the inevitably un-adorned teenagers who come by begging for sugar - My wife and I (try to) make them perform some minor feat - sing a song, do a little dance, recite a poem - one kid last night quoted me the square root of 2 to ten digits (yes, we checked, we am big nerds here).
Sometimes there's too much of a crush at the door and I just sling a fun-sized in everyone's bag. But when it works - when the teens swallow their insecurity and actually do some little thing worth a laugh or a cheer (from us or their friends), they get the biggest s*-eating grins. And at least some come back in following years and mention it with a hint of pride - or show off the costume they've made sure to wear.
And no eggs yet! (hope that wasn't a jinx!)
When I was a kid, there was
By JeanneM
Tue, 11/01/2011 - 1:22pm
When I was a kid, there was this guy in our neighborhood who gave out little sandwich baggies full of pennies every year (I think it was 25 cents per bag but I don't really remember.) He saved every single penny he got all year in order to do this and we loved it. My brother and loved counting up all the pennies and squirreling them away in our piggy banks.