The Buffalo Bills, fresh from coming off their Bye Week, are 14-point favorites over the 1-6 Miami Dolphins–a team the Bills lit up in Week Two 35-0. The weather at Highmark Stadium might be a factor: scattered showers and breezy. How will your NFL team do today? We have two huge bags of candy to distribute tonight. Last Halloween we had over 100 Trick-or-Treaters. How many kids show up at your door on Halloween?
Less than one, actually. We haven’t had any trick or treaters in years, sadly. The stores and restaurants on Third Avenue (even the Chinese takeouts) put out buckets of candy so the parents can take the kids around during the day. The kids who do come around here go to the one and two family houses up and down the side streets, but they do NOT come into the apartment houses unless they live there. We do have some kids in this building – not a huge amount but some – but for whatever reason, they don’t seem to go around the building anymore. When we were kids before we moved to Brooklyn we lived in an apartment house, and we definitely went door to door there and in the next building up, collecting all kinds of goodies.
Sad.
And speaking of sad, although never know which team will show up from week to week, I am not expecting the Giants to win in Kansas City today.
Jeff, we were surprised by the number of Trick-or-Treaters who showed up at our door during the Pandemic. Of course, all of the kids were wearing masks, but still…
Oops, my mistake. They are playing on Monday night.
Jeff, Katie and her friend Amber just landed in Boston. We were concerned about her flight from Atlanta to Boston because of weather and all the cancelled flights. Diane is now ready to give out Halloween candy…calmly.
Because covid was still raging last October, I bought no candy and did not leave the porch light on, so no trick-or-treaters last year. This year, John and Victoria plan to sit at the end of the driveway and distribute candy. I will remain indoors, possibly watching “Halloween Party” with David Suchet as Hercule Poirot.
As for football, I’m afraid the 6-1 Buccaneers will be egging the 4-2 Saints house (that is, the Caesar’s Sportsbook Super Dome—yes, legalized sports gambling now has enough pull to purchase naming rights) unless the Boys in Black & Gold can find a way to shut down the tricks of Tom Brady & company.
Deb, I’m surprised the Buccaneers are doing so well with their aging QB. I love your HALLOWEEN PARTY idea!
I’ll probably watch Game 5 of the World Series too. Atlanta leads the series 3-to-1 over Houston. One more win and the Braves will be MLB champions.
Deb, I’m not a big baseball fan, but I heard if the Braves win, it will be their first World Series title in 20 years.
Your Saints had no trouble last week with my troubled Seahawks, Deb. Though I love Suchet as Poirot, Halloween Party may be the weakest of Christe’s books featuring the Belgian detective. Enjoy you Hallow’s Eve.
Rick, check this out: Agatha Christie dedicated HALLOWE’EN PARTY: “To P.G. Wodehouse – whose books and stories have brightened up my life for many years. Also, to show my pleasure in his having been kind enough to tell me he enjoyed my books.”
The last 2 Trick-or-Treat nights were marked by heavy rain so I was pretty much alone out there, and many people didn’t answer their doors for me.
Dan, I love your Dick Tracy costume!
The Dolphins are so bad the Falcons beat them last week, so the Bills will likely have an easy time of it.
I live in a 42 unit condo building and have had exactly one trick-or-treater in 24 years, the daughter of one of my neighbors who’d asked me if it was OK. But the possibility allows me to buy a huge bag of Snickers Minis, which I greatly enjoy.
Michael, we’re fans of Snickers, too. Diane buys the Variety bag, but I make sure I give all the other candy to Trick-or-Treaters while hoarding the Snickers!
We stopped having Halloween visitors after the few kids on our isolated, steep street stopped doing it. One year we had a dozen, but four years ago and since none, so we leave it dark and don’t buy candy, since we’d just eat it. I had a good A1c last month and intend to lose weight in November, so no sweets for me!
So George, what are you dressing up as this year?
Rick, I thought I would go with a classic: Casper the Friend Ghost!
Oh, yes, football. Seahawks lost Monday, Wilson is still out, the defense is awful and they play the Jaguars. So I have no idea. I’ll probably skip it.
Rick, the Bills struggled to subdue the Dolphins in what was supposed to be an “easy” game. On any given Sunday…
We have always loved the trick-or-treaters here, who show up in our neighborhood in the hundreds. Last year we didn’t participate because of the pandemic, and there weren’t too many kids wandering the streets anyway. This year, Ann’s over her mother’s (where there are no trick-or-treaters) and I didn’t buy any candy, so I’m sitting here in the dark. The kids are out in force.
I don’t remember specifically, but I think in 2019 we had 350 kids, and there were more on the street when we turned out our lights.
Jeff, our Trick-or-Treat Time is from 5 P.M. to 8 P.M on Halloween. Some local communities scheduled Trick-or-Treating on Saturday…which just seems wrong to me (plus, it rained cats & dogs yesterday). Tonight, it’s cool–mid-40s–and breezy. We had about a 100 kids show up and Diane was giving away handfuls of candy to kids who came close to the deadline so we wouldn’t have candy to send our glucose numbers through the roof!
There’s a great song by Richard Shindell called “Are You Happy Now?” in which a couple breaks up on Halloween and the woman leaves with all the candy, and the guy hides in his house while the kids knock on the door.
I’ve had nobody knocking at my door, because my lights are out. They know to only go to houses where the lights are on. Most of those houses have people sitting on the porch anyway, because there’s no sense answering the door every twenty seconds.
Jeff, Diane and I take turns handing out candy. There’s always a rush around 6 P.M. and then things start to tail off after 7 P.M. Our outside lights go off at 8 P.M.