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US trick-or-treaters too lazy to walk

Unread postby Grimnir » Wed 31 Oct 2007, 19:24:32

Seriously, I'm watching out my window and their parents are driving them down the block.
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Re: US trick-or-treaters too lazy to walk

Unread postby lateStarter » Wed 31 Oct 2007, 19:32:16

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Grimnir', 'S')eriously, I'm watching out my window and their parents are driving them down the block.


Probably just worried about 'terrorists' and 'sex-offenders'. Also possibly: gang-bangers, drug-addicts, Catholic priests, wild dogs, Hannibal Lecter types, etc...
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Re: US trick-or-treaters too lazy to walk

Unread postby bonehead » Wed 31 Oct 2007, 19:43:35

They'd be driving them down the block at $5.00 a gallon.They're also the same people who'll be cutting in front of you at the gas pumps when tshtf.
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Re: US trick-or-treaters too lazy to walk

Unread postby Daculling » Wed 31 Oct 2007, 20:11:36

Not here... most are illegal immigrants (the parents) and walk or take the bus.

So far... two spidermen, a princess and a boxer.

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Re: US trick-or-treaters too lazy to walk

Unread postby dinopello » Wed 31 Oct 2007, 20:30:57

Only had half a dozen here so far - all walkers of course. I think the music is scaring them away. The Primusis loud enough to shake the filiment in the porch light which creates an interesting effect.
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Re: US trick-or-treaters too lazy to walk

Unread postby jbrovont » Wed 31 Oct 2007, 20:34:33

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', 'O')nly had half a dozen here so far - all walkers of course. I think the music is scaring them away. The Primusis loud enough to shake the filiment in the porch light which creates an interesting effect.


Not many here either - and the ones that are are being driven around. Thinking about people being too lazy to drive around and get candy made me laugh though - thanks!
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Re: US trick-or-treaters too lazy to walk

Unread postby jasonraymondson » Wed 31 Oct 2007, 21:29:57

At the price per gallon wouldn't it be chepaer to just buy the fucking candy?


When I was kid we walked 200 mile in 6 feet of snow for a snickers. oh no wait, I was channeling PMS
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Re: US trick-or-treaters too lazy to walk

Unread postby Denny » Wed 31 Oct 2007, 22:05:47

I wonder who is lazier, the parents or the kids?

I wrote yesterday about all of the great potentials of America, but I also know that there are some people who just may end being "culled" during the upcoming emergency, along with their gene pool, and maybe that is not so bad.

I am hoping folks who drive their kids everywhere are among that select group. But, not the kids, they may still be salvageable.
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Re: US trick-or-treaters too lazy to walk

Unread postby PrairieMule » Wed 31 Oct 2007, 22:54:14

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', 'O')nly had half a dozen here so far - all walkers of course. I think the music is scaring them away. The Primusis loud enough to shake the filiment in the porch light which creates an interesting effect.



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Re: US trick-or-treaters too lazy to walk

Unread postby Eli » Wed 31 Oct 2007, 23:30:23

Are the kids Fat as hell?

If they are then the answer probably is that the parents are even fatter and physically can't walk down the block without sweating to death and complaining that it is too hot even though it is 60 degrees outside. But by they have to get that candy!

These are the same people who ride around in those carts at the store. They are so fat they can't walk to get food so the solution? Why get a motorized cart.
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Re: US trick-or-treaters too lazy to walk

Unread postby threadbear » Wed 31 Oct 2007, 23:47:21

Next year the little farts will be thin, wearing hobo costumes, running their asses off from door to door hoping to score a potato.
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Re: US trick-or-treaters too lazy to walk

Unread postby jboogy » Wed 31 Oct 2007, 23:55:09

I drove the kids to a higher density area to TorT tonight , my nearest neighbor is a twenty minute walk so what's a family of chocoholics to do?Once there we all got out and walked ,though on the way back i drove the boy house to house because they were spread out pretty good. The haul was pitiful this year cause we got a late start , lots of hard candy and very little cocoa based stuff. Sad
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Re: US trick-or-treaters too lazy to walk

Unread postby PrairieMule » Wed 31 Oct 2007, 23:57:56

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'N')ext year the little farts will be thin, wearing hobo costumes, running their asses off from door to door hoping to score a potato.


Better a that than something like this...

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Re: US trick-or-treaters too lazy to walk

Unread postby kpeavey » Thu 01 Nov 2007, 00:19:35

Not one kid this year. Then again, I parked the truck sideways, moved the trash barrel with some boards across the top, turned out all the lights and took a nap.

Too bad, they missed out on the pea soup I was offering. Mmmmm...pea soup.
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Re: US trick-or-treaters too lazy to walk

Unread postby Eli » Thu 01 Nov 2007, 00:34:01

I can see it now, some middle aged guy who smells of beer answering the door, taking a big heaping spoonful of pea soup and depositing in some unfortunate trick or treaters bag with a resounding thawump!

LOL :lol:
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Re: US trick-or-treaters too lazy to walk

Unread postby strider3700 » Thu 01 Nov 2007, 03:47:21

This year was pathetic. Two "kids" who I believe graduate from highschool this year or next showed up first. They where driving and stopping at the houses with pumpkins obviously on their way somewhere good. An hour later one 12 year old and her mom.

My first year here I bought 100 of those small chocolate bars. I got 8 kids. Last year I just bought a 16 pack of big chocolate bars and got 7 kids. This year it was 3 kids for the 16 pack. I know there is at least 12 small kids on the street because we hang out with their parents reguarly. They all pile into cars and go to the mall and higher density neighbourhoods I guess.

I have to admit when I was little I wouldn't have picked this road. Far too steep and not enough houses involved.
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Re: US trick-or-treaters too lazy to walk

Unread postby dinopello » Thu 01 Nov 2007, 11:35:26

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrairieMule', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', 'O')nly had half a dozen here so far - all walkers of course. I think the music is scaring them away. The Primusis loud enough to shake the filiment in the porch light which creates an interesting effect.



I love Primus! .

Anyone who opens up a can of Pork Soda for trick or treaters is my kind of ecclectic weirdo.


That's me! Or, ladels of melted cheese....

I bailed on my house at 8 and went to a neighboring street where they shut it off and everybody on the street had done up their places like haunted houses. There were thousands of kids there (I'm sure some of them had not walked there). Explains why I had so few kids - just the ones from my street I guess. We sat on the porch with beers and handed out several dozen pounds of candy.

The little tots are really cute, but the young teens who are still going around begging for candy really puzzle me.
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Re: US trick-or-treaters too lazy to walk

Unread postby jboogy » Thu 01 Nov 2007, 11:54:29

You had small children dressed as tater tots? My 14 year old insisted on TorT with her girlfriend , neither one of them wearing any discernable costume as far as I could tell . I told her this year was her last , next year she can tote her own ass into town , I'm not going to be an accomplice to her and her thug friends intimidating old ladies into giving up the treats.
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Re: US trick-or-treaters too lazy to walk

Unread postby Baldwin » Thu 01 Nov 2007, 12:44:59

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', '
')The little tots are really cute, but the young teens who are still going around begging for candy really puzzle me.


I can think of worse things for them to do than go Trick-or-Treating.
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