You’ve only got one day left to stock up on Halloween treats for those good-for-nothing, lazy trick-or-treaters. Kids are always looking for a handout.
Anyway, be sure to avoid having the above-mentioned “kids” attack your home with shaving cream or raw eggs by providing them with an acceptable treat. It’s much like appeasing King Kong: Give him what he wants and he walks away. Give him something stupid and he smashes your head.
(“Kong no like Peeps!”)
Here are the Top 5 Terrible Halloween Treats that could get your home vandalized:
1–Fruit. An apple in a Trick-or-Treat bag is the equivalent to a lump of coal in a Christmas stocking. Children start crying and ask, “What did I do to offend the Great Pumpkin? Does he hate me? Was I bad?” The answer to the last two questions is usually “yes.” Just save the fruit for Thanksgiving pie or for Snow White.
(My mom always threw apples away on Halloween, convinced they were full of needles and razor blades.)
2-Toothbrush. Not only does this “treat” make kids foam at the mouth (literally) it also sends a message to parents that, “You are not a good enough parent to purchase your child a toothbrush. I can tell. I’m your neighbor.” Halloween judging is really frowned upon.
3-Hard bubble gum. Even kids know that you probably bought this horrible bubble gum on clearance at Walgreen’s last Halloween. It’s harder than a peach pit and tastes like death, and there’s NO WAY you can blow a bubble. This category also includes year-old taffy, Bit-O-Honey and those awful, awful peanut-shaped candies that have the consistency of fossilized shaving cream.
4–Pencils. Kids love writing death threats to people who give them pencils on Halloween. “Hey, neighbor! Thanks for giving me something I can do homework with. Better watch your back.”
5–Little boxes of raisins. Kids don’t like raisins when it’s NOT Halloween. Why would they like them on All Hallow’s Eve instead of a Twix bar, Hershey’s kisses or Blow Pop? Save the raisins for your cereal or you might find them dropped into your gas tank.
Have a happy, safe and vandal free Halloween!
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Nice read, Peri. I always get a chuckle reading your blogs/columns in the West Jordan news. You were right on with what kids will NOT appreciate or think of as a treat…
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Excellent humor. Thanks for the laughs. I love raisins. You’re right though, I should keep them for myself. I wonder how many pounds of candy are eaten by the people handing out candy, you know, before it even makes it to the bowl beside the door.
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My rule: for every piece of candy I give away, I get to eat two.
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