The Jooj's first DumDum. So, the occupied city of North Mexico that is El Paso has successfully tainted my two favorite holidays.
1. 4th of July scout breakfast: serving...Menudo (a soup made from cow's stomach.)
2. Halloween: people were bused in from Juarez for the free candy. I don't mind giving costumed children free candy, but when I open my door to twelve 65-year-old ladies wearing sweats, holding Wal-mart plastic bags saying "treat?" I get irritated. Come on. I know that if I go to Mexico today they are going to be trying to sell me MY fun-sized Snickers along with their Chiclets. In addition, and I blame the military, not Mexico, the Chaplain at Fort Bliss held a "Halloween alternative" where they gave out prizes for the best biblical costume.
On the plus side, I did see someone wearing an old-school ghost costume--the sheet with eyes cut out.
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And Waldo is...1/2 of Shrek?
You're not alone. I also had a 60+ hispanic lady. She came with two kids, who I let choose a piece of candy from the bowl. She was standing behind them, and the next thing I knew, her hand was in the bowl and the candy went into her plastic, not so empty Wal-Mart bag.
cabesh, your next-door neighbor was a huge hit at jen's last year. showed up dressed like a retired playboy bunny on crack. jen refused her any candy.
My husband grew up in Holland. The Americans there were DETERMINED to do Halloween. They would put up pumpkins on their doors and pass around the addresses. Parents would drive their children from house to house all over The Hauge.
It didn't take too long for 65 year old Dutch men to start going to the houses with ghosts on them and simply ask "Beer?". Trick or Treating for Beer. The new Dutch Halloween.
On the radio they were dispelling Halloween myths. One of the real ones is of a lady that got tired of giving teenagers candy, so she gave them Brillo pads instead. :-)Of course, the Mexicans would sell that too.
I had TWO trick or treaters. I don't know which is worse, having old ones or none at all......
R
I gave out croutons one year...
When I got home from work last night Ricky was hiding in the dark so no trick-or-treaters would take "his" candy away. Maybe you should have tried that.
I was at my mom's house last night which is across the street from THE DORMS. When the students come a knockin' we give them cheerios. My cousin reminded me that my dad used to cover ice cubes in tin foil and hand them out to the luckiest of zoobies.
Last night I was nice, I just answered the door and told them "sorry, we're out of candy."
Was that lying?
Well...was it?
Were you eating the candy while you said it?
First... CUTE picture of the Dum Dum grab... is it me or is it fascinating that babies who've never tasted candy... know inherently it's good...
LOL - and ... have these people no shame? Honestly... the taking candy from a baby has risen to new depths of depravity...
So far... no 65 year olds here... or college kids... seriously, if you're not clever enough to figure out when it is appropriate and when it is not... we need you weeded out of the gene pool.
W was a guy with a bolt sticking out of his head, but he lost half of the bolt. I was Tigger.
Carina--no secret fued--I would never buh-lete your posts. Maybe the administrator found them dirty...
I bought Real Simple. There you were, Jennifer Galan! "Jennifer," that's so fancy.
Jennifer is my grown-up name, the one I write on mail and tell to the bishop so that they might call me to a grown-up calling like librarian.
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