It's a waste of money and idealistic to put a bowl of candy at the front door when you are not home...

My neighbor did this tonight and I just heard a kid screech, "The bowl of candy is EMPTY!"

So, less than two hours in, children have clearly not taken just one. So she spent that money to fill a huge bowl to please a few greedy kids.

i used to do that but then dress up as a dummy and scare them if they took more. After a couple of years of that... i have been told they only take 2 as per my sign LOL

wants2laugh wrote:i used to do that but then dress up as a dummy and scare them if they took more. After a couple of years of that... i have been told they only take 2 as per my sign LOL

Good idea!

I think depending on who we got they might actually follow the rules. The other night we had 3 big burly teenaged boys dressed as football players, and these are the kind that you assume if you let them take what they want, the whole bowl will be empty in three seconds, but I was surprised, they each only took 1-2 pieces each for them and their girlfriends. On the other hand we had one little girl who took out all the Pixy sticks, and another little girl who grabbed a handful 7 times.

Supernova wrote:

Good idea!

I think depending on who we got they might actually follow the rules. The other night we had 3 big burly teenaged boys dressed as football players, and these are the kind that you assume if you let them take what they want, the whole bowl will be empty in three seconds, but I was surprised, they each only took 1-2 pieces each for them and their girlfriends. On the other hand we had one little girl who took out all the Pixy sticks, and another little girl who grabbed a handful 7 times.

The other night? How many nights do you hand out candy? And 7 handfulls? You saw this and didn't say anything?? You MUST love this holiday.

Well we had a lot of extra candy so we told the kids to take what they wanted, and they did; they were about 4 years old so it was cute.

Shale wrote:Some ppl need to take a class in human behavior in a major metropolitan area. Norman Rockwell's world did not even exist in his time.

Why not just scatter the candy on the front yard and at least make the little fuckers work for it?

RedBedroom wrote:My neighbor did this tonight and I just heard a kid screech, "The bowl of candy is EMPTY!"

So, less than two hours in, children have clearly not taken just one. So she spent that money to fill a huge bowl to please a few greedy kids.

What did she think was gonna happen?

I would have been one of them greedy little kids, honestly. Not so I can eat all that candy, just so I can brag the amount of candy I got for the night.