Comments on: Candy is dandy, but fifth gear comes from fear

By: Nidhi

Nidhi — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:40:39 +0000

LOL! loved the post. Reminded me of my own kids who picked up this song in school a few weeks before Halloween:
“Trick or Treat, Smell my feet, Give me something good to eat,
If you don’t, I don’t care, I will pull your underwear”
Must admit it sounded rather cute (can’t help it if you have 4 yr old twin boys singing in perfect chorus) but I had to keep a stern face. It required a lot of coercing to make sure they did not sing that at the front porch of our neighbors.
As for the verse, I wouldn’t be able to beat the one above :>)

By: meira

meira — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:40:29 +0000

Candy is dandy, but sleep is cheap!
No trick or treats this side of the globe (thankfully!) Imagine having to share your chocolates. Sheesh!

By: Aishwarya

Aishwarya — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:45:43 +0000

Candy is dandy, but not when it’s wasted on mere infants. A friend whose house was (inexplicably) bypassed by trick-or-treaters this year has donated the unused treats to our weekend movie marathon. We are pleased about this.

By: A Cynic in Wonderland

A Cynic in Wonderland — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:52:37 +0000

i have vague recollections of dressin up as a witch with a broomstick. but cant for the life of me recall if it was for halloween. I hope so. Else i will have to ask my mother why the heck was she dressing me up to scare people. but no memories of candies at all? Bawl! now im feeling cheated.

( Cute post)

The candies would have lasted for all of 30 seconds. No wonder you don’t remember them

By: Maddy

Maddy — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:56:08 +0000

This is my baby boy’s first Halloween (he is 24 days old) . Our apartment kids were so excited to take him for trick or treat..And he went with them with his mom…his candy harvest was by far the biggest .

I can imagine why He looks very cute, and I love that picture of him smiling in his sleep! Who says little babies don’t smile – this one certainly does!

By: purplesque

purplesque — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:32:44 +0000

What a fun post. This is our first year in a new neighborhood, and I bought two bags of candy and decorated the door with lights and a toothy Jack O’. Come Halloween eve, and there were no kids! We later found out that all the trick-or-treaters go to more kid-intensive neighborhoods.

(I tried putting that to rhyme, but it didn’t quite work out. lol)

I remember looking at your twitpic and admiring your Jack O Lantern No kids came? That’s so disappointing ! Here’s my attempt at verse, on your behalf:

Candy is dandy, but my pumpkins didn’t bring in the munchkins..

By: Scared At Halloween | DesiPundit

Scared At Halloween | DesiPundit — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:57:35 +0000

[...] Culture & Society, Humor, Personal Stuff Bedsheet ghosts may scare some but this Halloween, Lekhni is scared indoors by children. Come Halloween, my front porch will be besieged with adorable, gap-toothed little children. But [...]

By: IdeaSmith

IdeaSmith — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:38:52 +0000

LOL, I’ve always wished I could have experienced the Trick-or-treat tradition. Errm, only as long as I was a kid I suppose. Great post!

You are never too old I see some parents experiencing it vicariously, when they bring their children..some even bring toddlers who are clearly too young to eat candy – who do you think the candy is really for?

By: Rajk

Rajk — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:01:53 +0000

Woohoo Lekhni!! That was a riot!!
This was my first year when I took my kid T or T ing..and the rules were firm….no picking..you get what you get…and you say Thank you!! And of course, there were multiple reinforcements of the rules…every 10 mins or so…
So hopefully, we didn’t scare anyone away!!
Good luck next time!! Sorry about not putting it in verse…really bad at that!

Thanks for sharing your experience, verse or not! I stayed for a half-hour of trick-or-treating, and I found that my immediate neighbors accompanying their kids, doing exactly what you describe – asking them to take only one candy, reminding them to say “Thank you” and so on.. I can imagine it’s not easy as a parent to do this at each house

Perhaps that’s why many parents usually let the kids go off alone – there were scores of other unaccompanied kids too..