NO CANDY?!!! ONOZ!!!!!! OMGZ!!!

[elysia]

B/G info:

a. We are retail store that ships stuff.
b. Yesterday was not Halloween.

SC comes in with a cute little girl dressed up like a witch.

Little Girl: Trick-or-treat! *holds up cupped hands*

Me: *feeling sad I have no treats* Oh, I'm sorry honey, we dont have any candy yet! I dont have any treats, but you make a very cute little witch. If you come back tomorrow I'll give you two, hows that?

SC: *makes bitchy sound of disbelief in the back of her throat*Huh, you don't have any candy on the day before Halloween.

Me: ...No, I'm sorry.

SC: Well the beauty supply place next door did! *triumphant*

Me: **enter dripping sarcasm** Hmm. I thought it was traditional to hand out candy on Halloween, but today's not Halloween? Thats tomorrow? Hmm. I could close the store to go get some?

SC: WELL WE WONT BE BACK ANY TIME SOON SO DONT EVEN BOTHER. YOUD THINK THAT MORE PEOPLE WOULD GET INTO THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT. *to little girl* C'mon baby lets go somewhere else." *snort*



? I bet this bitch already has her christmas tree up.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Me: *feeling sad I have no treats* Oh, I'm sorry honey, we dont have any candy yet! I dont have any treats, but you make a very cute little witch. If you come back tomorrow I'll give you two, hows that?

SC: *makes bitchy sound of disbelief in the back of her throat*Huh, you don't have any candy on the day before Halloween.

She may be a cute witch now, but with the way her mom's raising her, when she grows up she's going to be just a witch.

? I bet this bitch already has her christmas tree up.

I'll probably have a tree up in a week or two, when I buy my Charlie Brown Christmas Tree

[NightWatch]

I'll probably have a tree up in a week or two, when I buy my Charlie Brown Christmas Tree

Omg! I've been looking for something like that! IPF, you're my hero.

[One-Fang]

To take the OP concept and run with it ... someone was saying at our Halloween party last night that "in America" it's traditional for children to do the trick or treat thing the week before Halloween, not actually on Oct 31st.

Having never heard of such a thing, and read many posts lately about coming up to Halloween, etc, is there any basis at all in this claim?

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

My store has those trees. Lots and lots of them.

And they're cheap, require little assembly and are just so darn cute.

To take the OP concept and run with it ... someone was saying at our Halloween party last night that "in America" it's traditional for children to do the trick or treat thing the week before Halloween, not actually on Oct 31st.

Having never heard of such a thing, and read many posts lately about coming up to Halloween, etc, is there any basis at all in this claim?

Depends on the municipality. When I used to go trick-or-treating it was generally the Sunday before Halloween.

This year it happened to fall right on Halloween. I ended up giving out candy to all of 3 trick-or-treaters, all in the same family.

Now I has lots of candy to scarf down.

[NightWatch]

That's weird. In my town we do it the day of Halloween. Unless it falls on a sunday, which tends to offend a particular religious group.. They find themselves so mighty as to change the date of Halloween to the night before... It makes me angry.

[SnarkyPie]

I was confused, because we actually got two sets of trick-or-treaters where I live tonight. It is Halloween and all, but we are a DORM. It looks like a house, but it is clearly in University housing territory, and has a big "_____ House" sign on the front like all the other DORMS. Luckily, there were a few of us sitting down in the common room eating candy that my relatives had sent to me, so we passed out some to the kids.

[BarbieGirl]

When I was little If halloween was on a sunday our parents wouldn't take us, but once we were old ebough to go alone we could go. Our church would just put on party the night before and we would go trunk or treating instead. But as a general rule you go trick or treating on halloween. That person was an idiot.

[KellyHabersham]

In the town where my family used to live, the school carnival and the whole trick-or-treating bit wasn't always on Halloween, but from what I remember, that had more to do with not wanting kids to be out late on a school night.

[HorrorFrogPrincess]

Um... people Trick or Treat ON Halloween. That's kinda the whole point of Halloween. What else would you do?

[nomorecarts]

here trick or treating is always on halloween

[smileyeagle1021]

To take the OP concept and run with it ... someone was saying at our Halloween party last night that "in America" it's traditional for children to do the trick or treat thing the week before Halloween, not actually on Oct 31st.

Having never heard of such a thing, and read many posts lately about coming up to Halloween, etc, is there any basis at all in this claim?

there actually is some basis in that... in Nevada (at least the northern part around the capital) Trick or Treating is typically done on the 30th because the 31st is Nevada Day and people don't want to deal with two holidays on the same day. As nightwatch had mentioned Utah also occasionally changes the day if it falls on Sunday... other locales may change it also... but those are the exceptions, not the rule.

[Belari]

My store was generous. We did a children's costume contest the 29th-31st. If kids came in all dressed up any of those days, they got a candy bar and we took their picture to enter them in the contest. Of course we had idiots coming the 28th and even I think, one kid on the 21st, demanding their candy bar.

[ElizabethBennet]

Re: trick-or-treat time

Aroud here, the times vary from town to town. Which is wierd because its just 3-4towns smushed up against each other. The unincorparted county always has trick-or-treat on the 30th, regardless (not sure why), and an area megachurch is having their 'trunk-or-treat' on Saturday morning from 10-12noon.

My town has it on the 31st from 5-8. Next town over has it 5-9, and the next one after that has it 6-9. Some people (like my sister) take their kids to all of these.

I had a total of six kids come to the door this year. Three were my nephews (one is 2 mos old) and the other three were my neighbor's kids.

[Bright_Star]

Halloween is NOT a holiday in the way that Thanksgiving & Christmas is. It's a day for the ankle biters & rug rats to scope out some free candy & get a mouthfull of cavities all the while doing it. Makes dentists drool with anticipation at this time of year...lol.