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Monday, November 2, 2009

Things I Learned This Halloween

Did anyone else have more highschoolers than Toddlers show up at your house Trick-or-Treating this year? Here are some things I learned:


  • If you can't say "Happy Halloween" without your voice breaking, you are too old for candy.

  • Apparently, normal teenager clothes qualify as a costume if you call yourself "Gangsta".

  • Pulling up the hood of your hoodie makes you a character from a slasher movie.

  • You are too old to trick-or-treat if you drove yourself and your friends to my street.

  • If you normally wear your ball cap backwards, turning the brim forward is a disguise.

  • Carrying the rubber mask in you hand because it is "too hot" means you are no longer in costume. Put it back on if you want a Kit Kat.

  • If your costume is a Hobo, and you don't have to apply makeup to look unshaven, you are too old to trick-or-treat.

  • I am completely unprepared if the Girl Scouts show up because they are 15 years old for crying out loud! Where are the parents?

7 comments:

Andrew Green said...

The world would be a better place if there were more pictures like that one....

Ed Adams said...

I would sooo being going to jail.

April Elizabeth said...

hahha those ar hilarious. i had a 16 year old and his mom show up at my door, both with bags out stretched and no one in costume. not even a trick or treat.

wtf man?!

Mala said...

So how much candy did you give the girl scouts????

Love your list!

Trooper Thorn said...

Andrew G: Don't let it be said I'm not doing my part.

Ed A: That's why you had to sign that predator notification when you moved into your neighborhood, right?

April E: Did you give them your laundry and ask to have it pressed and folded by Nov 2?

Mala: As much as they wanted.

Cocotte said...

I hate when the dads come to the door with their pillowcase too!

Lisa said...

Last year I gave candy to a guy with a full beard. I think he was about thirty. Awkward...