When I was in junior high and high school, I was always paranoid on Halloween night about being rolled with toilet paper. “Rolling” or “TPing” ….whatever you call it. Around here it has always been known as “rolling.” I’d always spy outside ever so often on the night of the 31st to make sure no one was in the yard. Little did I know that neither me nor my family was first on anybody’s revenge or embarrassment list. There were bigger fish to fry. Pranks are usually pulled on good friends. I remember being told at church camp that if kids roll your car it means they like you. Maybe so.
Just once, I might like to dress in all black, go out to the local grocery store, buy a hugh economy pack of toilet paper, and roll someone. Never once did I do that growing up.
Total number of trick or treaters tonight: 0
Sad. We do decorate and leave our lights on to let everyone know that there is free candy to be given out here. But no one came. So we have all this candy to eat.
For future reference I would recommend using a sturdy pillow case for gathering Halloween candy. I always got stuck using a cheap plastic bag for candy. Pillow cases have much more capacity. Then there are those stupid plastic Jack-O-Lantern which don’t have any capacity. Good for little kids. But if you are looking for large amounts of candy, definitely use a pillow case.
Right now, thousands of kids are getting sick on all the candy they’re eating. All those 3 Musketeers, Milky Ways, Snickers, M&Ms, Juicy Fruit, Pixie Sticks….. I don’t recall ever really getting sick on Halloween candy. But I do remember seeing leftover candy appear in my school lunchbox in November. You know if you really think about it, November is a pretty boring month. October has the anticipation of Halloween….there’s a buildup over time…up until the end of the month. Same way with December and Christmas. But November and Thanksgiving? Besides college students and far away relatives, who gets excited about Thanksgiving anymore? You can’t go out on the Friday afterwards because it is so chaotic around the stores. November is just blah.