[kissedazombieandlikedit]

I laugh about it every year. The little girl who lived next door to me whose parents didn't so much as put out a pumpkin, walked over and said " Same old boring decorations again this year, I see" ! Every year I am sure I change everything up, I think she made me a better haunter!

 

[MichaelMyers666]

I had a kid who kept yelling at me "I'm not scared of you!" while in my realistic Michael Myers costume. After a minute or so, I just flipped him off. We're giving you free candy dude, and continuing to tell me you're not scared means that you actually are scared.

And yes, the parents who like to say "It's ok, he's not going to do anything" like they're going to stop me on my own property. Makes me want to carry a real knife. Because if you feel threatened on your own property, you have rights.

 

[ghostbust99]

I enjoy threads like these where everyone shares their stories. I personally haven't had any bad experiences which I guess is good lol. I have had a few kids that didn't say trick or treat but other than that things have been good so far.

 

[Cephus404]

I haven't had any bad experiences in many, many years, although way back in the day, you used to get teenagers who would come around, not in costume, wanting candy and as much as they could get out of you, and if you didn't do what they wanted, they'd either cuss you out or break things. That went on for a while until someone... not saying who... called the police on them and the problem stopped.

Otherwise, no complaints.

 

[SlayKnotV1]

every year we hand out candy sacks and what we do it we put them in the tall plastic containers that you would store wrapping paper in or use for a hamper. so last year my wife asked me to get a full one cause the one she had was running low. I put it next to her and this woman walks up and starts grabbing bags and my wife yelled at her and she had to [email protected] to say "my kids are in the car and are too scared to come out". my wife asks how many kids and she says 7. so I ask her for the bags back and told her that I was gonna walk over to the car and hand each kid a bag. I get to the car and I see 1 kid and he was about a year old. I looked at her and said im gonna be nice and give you one bag even thou you don't deserve it cause you lied to me.

 

[Wolfman]

Years ago we had the local football team dress up as zombies and patrol our graveyard as a sort of security force. Well, a rival football team heard about it and tried to make a show of not being intimidated. That could have been bad, three dozen big Samoan teenage athletes pumped full of testosterone and booze. But somebody called the cops and nothing got out of hand.

 

[lisa48317]

The only issue I had was someone's elderly grandma who clearly never trick-or-treated back in the home country. She comes up with a herd of little kids - the kids were great - all excited and yelling trick-or-treat. The kids got their treats and ran back down the driveway while she stood there. No costume, bag or anything. I just looked at her with my eyebrows raised, then she asked "where's mine?" I made a show of looking her up & down and told her "nice costume" and gave her the smallest piece of candy in the cauldron. Seriously - did you NOT see what the kids were doing??

 

[Sky]

My story is a little opposite. I was the ToTer, can't remember how old, though, pretty young. My parents would park at my grandparent's house and I would get to go door to door with my sister. One year we knocked on a door and an older man yanked the door open. "What are you doing?!?" he bellowed. "It's too late! Can't you see we turned off our light?!? Get out of here!" Bear in mind, there was a porch light on. His wife came from the living room and scolded him, offering us candy. But we just ran off trying not to cry. We always were super polite, too, "Trick or treat! Thank you! Happy Halloween!"

 

[The Big Scare]

My nightmare was when I was a TOTer. I was one of those "perfect" kids growing up, never doing anything bad, and never wanting to do anything wrong. Well, lo and behold, I end up getting lost in the neighborhood and end up going to the same house twice... totally unintentional. The lady opens the door and says, "Haven't you been here before?" I look back at my mom, recognizing the woman. I felt so bad, but she gave me candy anyway. It scarred me because I never wanted to be perceived as doing anything "bad," so unintentionally visiting the same house twice was pretty upsetting. Yeah, I got over it, but I still remember how bad I felt, mostly because I didn't want to be perceived as doing something "naughty," by a stranger no less!

Nowadays, I don't care what anyone thinks about me or what I do. How times have changed!

 

[65Ace]

Piggybacking on Big Scare's post, I was taking my daughter and a few of her friends around the neighborhood, they were around 6 or 7. Typically, I'd walk them up near the door, then let them go up on the porch and ring the door bell themselves. We stop at one house that's all lit up and has decorations on the porch, but when the kids ring the doorbell this old guy hanks the door open and starts screaming at them that its too late, blah, blah, blah, and literally scaring the kids. So then I had to step in and shut him down. Then I see he's still got a big bowl of candy just inside the door. To hear my daughter and her friends tell it at the post ToT party, I then proceeded "make" the mean old guy give them the candy he was hoarding. This of course was in total breach of the "pact" we had all made just after "the incident" not to talk about it to the Mom's because we won't want them to get upset. Needless to say, that was the last year I got to take the kids around ToT-ing. Ever since then I'm relegated to handing out the candy. The story does have a silver lining, however, once I started staying home to hand out the candy, I seriously raised the bar on decorations.

 

[Cali Specter]

Halloween is pretty big on our street (5000+) ToT's. Our neighborhood goes all out every year for the past 20 years. While passing out candy last year, a parent saw me drop one Tootsie Roll in her son's bag. She gave me a mean RBF of a look! In a snarky voice said "That's it??? Only ONE piece of candy? How cheap could this street be???" Let me tell you something, it completely fired me up! I looked at her from inside my yard (separated by a small fence) and pointed at her. I said "You come here, step inside my office." I pulled her aside and said, who the hell are you to tell me what to do! Lady, I just spent over two months preparing for Halloween, putting up decorations, building props, and purchased over $500 worth of candies and treats for so that you and your son and the rest of the ToT's can have a safe and fun place to enjoy Halloween! A bunch of parents who witnessed what transpired started to clap loudly. A couple of parents told the lady off and said "You've got some nerve to make a comment like that here!" I then pointed to her son and other ToT's who were amazed at my flying crank ghost and I said that's who I do it for. Needless to say she was very embarrassed and apologized to me and the parents that were standing nearby. She kept saying to the other parents that she didn't know how much time and money was spent on Halloween and decorations. She quickly bee lined out with her son away from my house. Shortly thereafter, a bunch of parents were thanking me for standing up for myself. Fathers were pulling their wallets out handing me big bills and kept saying thank you so much for putting on a great Halloween display and that they always look forward to coming to our street. I didn't take any of the money and told them that Halloween is my Christmas. A sincere thank you is all I need. I went back to passing out Tootsie Rolls.