Thread: Pet peeves involving Halloween.

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Originally Posted by Not-so-sunny-lane

What about punk 12 year olds who say how lame everything is and try to get in my actor's faces shouting "you don't scare me!" Seriously kid, who are you trying to impress?

Yea, that probably ticks me off more than anything else.

Forgot a big one- people who plan weddings or important parties on halloween. This has come up frequently the past three years or so. I'm a musician, so if a wedding is booked I have to work. But family can be an even bigger pain. I blew off a family wedding last year. Sorry folks. I don't spend tons o' cash on halloween and plan the night all year to have you announce you plan to ruin it for me. Of course, that wedding wasn't a big deal to miss. No harm no foul. But all that is unholy, STOP PLANNING IMPORTANT EVENTS ON HALLOWEEN!!

Thank you.



Dan

I guess the one I have the most trouble with are the (relatively few) parents who make no effort to control their kids as they wander through the props, poking and prodding (sometimes breaking) and trying to find out just how everything works. I don't blame the kids - It's the (relatively few) parents of those kids who just look on and smile. Everything else is just great every year.

Oh yeah - it's over so fast and we're back to a brand new countdown clock at HF!

-When you go into a store and ask if they have any Halloween in yet and they take you to "fall" stuff.

Daylight savings time

The people who showed up here in a limo, dressed like millionaires, walked to the front of the line, wanted to see my haunted house ... " N O W! " (Spoken as if honey was rolling from his lips) (Getting infront of 165 others already in line.)
I said," that's great, get in the back of the line."
"Do you Know who I am!? (Bill-me-later Dimmwitty the third? Or his 500 pound twin brother?)
His Daddy once played for the Chicago Bears!!!
"That's nice , go to the end of the line."
After a mumbled conference of the millionaires they waddled back to limo, tested it's overload springs and left.
165 people standing there applauded!
The millionaire Club never came back, I'm betting though of those 165 standing line, alot of them probably have.
"Speed Pass"? How does that make the little guy feel as he stands in line with his kids and he doesn't have the extra money to by a speed pass to get in the haunt slightly ahead of someone else?
Should that person, that Father, that Dad have to be made to look like a loser infront of his family? I think not.

On the other side of the coin, I also do not appreciate the whiner who plays off his down-and-out look of himself and his family to beg for a bargain priced admission to my place, then after I gave him the break, says,"Can you break a $100 bill?"
Thanks for rubber stamping the word "SUCKER" across my forehead!
"GGR!"

I also get upset from the person who begs me to work in my house, "Loves Halloween!" and then after I spend an hour or more explaining how everything is supposed to happen here, disappears and is never heard from again. No phone call, nothing.
The last time this happened the guy came to me begging for a job, his Wife too, I gave their family a tour a $48.00 value, then they" vanished", yet they lived only 3 blocks away!? Would not return our calls. their little boy came through for a tour in October, I asked him what had happened (Family problems, emergency?) He said when they got back home the Father just said, "Haunted house? No, we are done with that." ???
Very strange!??

Cute and stupid costumes. Things that aren't scary, aren't creative or thought-provoking, and serve no purpose other than being overly, sickeningly cute, or a pathetic attempt at being clever that just comes off as idiotic. To me, if it isn't scary or at least a little bit macabre, it isn't Halloween.

There are some toddlers' costumes that are exceptions because they are cute versions of scary things. For instance, the spider costume I saw last year for ages 1-2. Even though I don't like cutesy spiders, this was different because it would have been so cool to see some parent actually dress their baby as a spider! And the baby Jason mask we saw two years ago. My husband still wants one, even though we don't plan to have children. Despite being cute, those things are in the true spirit of Halloween and are a great way to get your children involved.

I feel there is absolutely no excuse for grown women to wear cutesy costumes. You are not little girls anymore, so please stop dressing up as fairies or Disney princesses. Unless you're going as a dead Disney princess, I don't want to see it at my Halloween party.

And then the costumes that are just plain stupid. For instance, the "chick magnet" costume -- a big magnet with baby chickens attached to it. The male firefighter costume with the appropriately-placed nozzle protruding from the uniform. I hope there aren't really guys who wear these things? If so, they probably haven't had a date in years.

Originally Posted by spiderqueen

And then the costumes that are just plain stupid. For instance, the "chick magnet" costume -- a big magnet with baby chickens attached to it. The male firefighter costume with the appropriately-placed nozzle protruding from the uniform. I hope there aren't really guys who wear these things? If so, they probably haven't had a date in years.

Hmmm...looks like I need to get a new costume then

Originally Posted by Spookilicious mama

People complaining that they have to actually wear a costume to your Halloween party....after I decorate like crazy the entire inside of the house, takes a few days, the outside of the house takes more days and nights, build a walk through Haunt with lights and music and mazes, yes more time, serve a ton of food, and desserts, and give out prizes for best costume and other things not to mention goodie bags for all of their children (lets just say we all know its not cheap throwing a Halloween Party). All they have to do is show up in a costume and they still complain Seriously??? SERIOUSLY!!! If they had any idea what actually goes into doing a walk through Haunt and throwing the party they wouldnt dare complain

Other than that I have no complaints

I think I AM with you on this and my sister would agree. But we (sigh) camly take a deep breath and tell them do not worry about not having a costume, just bloody show up.

-when people don't appriciate what I do.
- Getting called a devil worshiper by my religious neighbors and that really burns my butt when I share the same bloody religion.
- limited on funds.

Walmart, last year (2009) had nothing and I was soooo disappointed and it wasnt even funny. I went To Target and was like in love the the stuff they had going, esp for my KITCHEN!! I will deff be going back to Target for Halloween. They actually had something that suited me big time. Halloween USA was joke last year as well... or am I confusing it with another store??? There was another Halloween store that I check out and it was really a joke to be shopping there. I just cannot remember the name of that store. I just hope them stores do better this year. WHO KNOWS!?