Halloween 2020

"functionoverfashion" (functionoverfashion) 11/02/2020 at 11:39 • Filed to: None

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My town did a very small “downtown” trick-or-treat this year, involving some of the businesses in the center of town. Everyone had candy out on a table, usually 3-4 pieces in little bags. It was great. A decent number of kids out and about, but spread out, and really, it’s a very small town with a single-digit number of COVID cases TOTAL since the beginning of all this, so it felt pretty safe. Oh, right, everyone had candy out on a table except the store:

I mean, who wouldn’t send their children in there? Why “Hee hee ha?” I mean, it’s Halloween, but... this is the kind of store with lottery tickets, vape, cbd, cigarettes, all kinds of crap piled all around the checkout counter. And the kids just walked in, “trick or treat!” and they hand a couple little baggies through the plastic shield... It was bizarre.

Nibby > functionoverfashion 11/02/2020 at 12:03

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BABY SHARK DOO DOO DOO DOOO

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > functionoverfashion 11/02/2020 at 12:05

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facw > functionoverfashion 11/02/2020 at 12:06

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I was going to say sad days for the kid with a propane grill costume, but alas I can’t find one that includes a cylin der (probably for the best, though a cylinder shaped candy bucket would be on brand I guess):

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Also more of a camp stove than a grill, but nice lighting:

Wacko > Nibby 11/02/2020 at 12:07

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Baby Shark Die Die die diee

Tripper > functionoverfashion 11/02/2020 at 12:08

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Maybe 8-10 houses on our street did fires/tables/decorations in the driveway with candy, mostly in bags. It was perfect for a 2 year old, she was SO excited to be trick or treating and then done with it after 15-20 minutes (which is about all there was to be tricked or treated anyway).

We left full size candy bars spaced out with Clorox wipes and hand sanitizer, they went.

When we got home we shelved the candy she collected, washed our hands, and snuck in an identical candy bucket with “safe” candy for her.

I did the rookie dad thing and ate myself sick. (like actually, my chest is sore from yacking) lol.

Success, glad yours was good too.

functionoverfashion > Nibby 11/02/2020 at 16:24

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There was a baby shark costume (or at least, a small kid in a shark costume) and I kept singing that in my head

functionoverfashion > facw 11/02/2020 at 16:25

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That one with lights is good! 

functionoverfashion > Tripper 11/02/2020 at 16:29

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Oh we also did a trick-or-treat around the campus of my work - it’s a boarding school (9-12) and all the dorm parents had candy out for the faculty kids. It was great because the kids could kind of run amok themselves with very little parent guidance.

My kids are old enough now that they know how many of everything they have in their bags. I went to get something last night and my wife was like “be careful, they counted.” They’ll give it to me if I ask but I can’t just take it anymore!

My favorite candy-over-eating story is when my friend ate too many jelly beans - he puked up a golf-ball sized semi-digested rainbow ball of jellybean;  he said it was really painful and terrible, worse than puking up milk when he tried to drink a gallon in an hour.

Tripper > functionoverfashion 11/02/2020 at 16:52

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Oh boy yeah the jelly bean thing sounds bad and something that I’m surprised hasn’t happened to me. Mine was mostly chocolate and pizza, which is def up there as my worst .

I have pretty bad stomach issues out of the gate gastritis and just got over an ulcer... I’m not lactose intolerant but if my wife heard me say that she’d say something like, “Y ou nearly shit your pants every time you’re near milk, but be cause a doctor hasn’t said so, you’re not lactose intolerant?”

My worst ever was a combo of triscuit crackers, all you can eat crab and cheap tequila. I don’t eat crab or drink tequila anymore.