How to Survive Halloween. Pumpkins, tasers and pressure washers! :D

Or lock the doors turn out the lights and go to bed early...that's my plan.

 

There I am, minding my own business, engrossed in a book, the internet or the TV, and the door goes.

I open it to be faced with the horrific prospect of a small child, begging.
- for food I don't have.
With its parent hiding in the shadows on the kerbside.

I mean, what do you do?

My mother gives them apples, knowing that is the last thing they want, but thinking it is the best thing for them.

Me? I don't even have apples. And I can hardly hand out individual blueberries, can I?

The one year I bought Celebrations, the doorbell didn't go once and I spent the evening eating them myself (thankfully it was before I got a meter and the damage was unrecorded)

So, like @bulkbiker I will draw the curtains, turn out the lights and avoid the front room - hiding from the monsters

 

We give them nothing, and tell them to #@%$ off...

 

Were not allowed tasers, but a hose with good water pressure helps a lot.

No fun in trick or thieving when you are as wet as a shag

 

I can get a loan of one from the bowls club that will strip oil stains off cement that's how much pressure it's got.

Our two boys used to trick and what ever when they were younger, they teamed up with their black mates from up the street. Always came home with a fair selection of stuff that they shared out between themselves.

 

We eat a fair bit of pumpkin through the year, we have a good variety of them here in Australia.

My main ones that I like are the Queensland Blue and the JAP pumpkin. ( before any goes all huggyfluffy pc about the word JAP it stands for Just A Pumpkin, and not a Japanese person.)

 

That could get expensive here, our lowest denomination coin is 5 cents.

I bet that set the "creature" back a bit.