Seasonal – The Old Man and the Street http://www.oldmanstreet.com/blog The Trials and Tribulations of a 1912 Arts and Crafts Foursquare Mon, 01 Nov 2004 02:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.4 Trick or…mumble mumble http://www.oldmanstreet.com/blog/2004/10/31/trick-ormumble-mumble/ http://www.oldmanstreet.com/blog/2004/10/31/trick-ormumble-mumble/#respond Mon, 01 Nov 2004 02:00:00 +0000 http://www.oldmanstreet.com/blog/?p=17 Having lived in either an apartment or a condo for the last 10 years, I haven’t given out Halloween candy in ages, so I was really looking forward to doling out the goodies today (even though we didn’t so much as have a pumpkin outside for decoration). We had about 140 pieces of candy to give out: we started at 3:30 and by 6:00 we were completely out.

Now I guess I’m just Halloween-Naive, but I expected lots of little kids escorted by their parents. What I didn’t expect were: The teenagers who couldn’t be bothered to stop talking on their cell phones as they stuck their swag-bags in my face; the parents trick-or-treating (actually asking for candy!) along with their kids; the “ring the doorbell 12 or 15 times” morons.

Maybe 40% of the kids that came to the door remembered to say “Thank you”, and a few of them seemed downright annoyed that they had to trek all. the. way. up our front steps just to gather their candy. I didn’t need any costume help to be the Cranky Old Curmudgeon.

]]> http://www.oldmanstreet.com/blog/2004/10/31/trick-ormumble-mumble/feed/ 0