20 Ways to Confuse Trick-or-Treater

Strange Cosmos ^ | 10/31/2003 | Not sure

[PeteFromMontana]

20 Ways to Confuse Trick-or-Treaters

1. Give away something other than candy. (Toothpicks, golf balls, bags of sand, etc.)

2. Wait behind the door. When they get near the door, jump out wearing a costume, holding a bag, and yell, "Trick or Treat!" Look at them, scratch your head, and act confused.

3. Fill a briefcase with marbles and crackers. Write on it, "Top Secret" in big letters. When trick-or-treaters come, look around suspiciously, say, "It's about time you got here," give them the briefcase, and quickly shut the door.

4. Get about 30 people to wait in your living room. When trick-or-treaters come to the door, invite them in. Once they're inside, have everyone yell, "Surprise!!!" Act like it's a surprise party.

5. Get everyone who comes to the door to come in and see if they can figure out what's wrong with your dishwasher. Insist that it makes an unnatural "whirring" sound.

6. After you give them candy, hand them a bill.

7. Open the door dressed as a giant fish. Collapse, flop about gasping for air, then don't move until they go away.

8. When you answer the door, hold up one candy bar, throw it out into the street, and yell, "Crawl for it!"

9. When you answer the door, look at them, act shocked and scared, and start screaming your head off. Slam the door and run around the house, screaming until they go away.

10. When you open the door, shout, "Drop and give me twenty!" and Insist they each do push-ups before you give them any candy.

11. Hand out menus and let them order their candy. Keep asking if anyone wants to see the wine list.

12. Get a catapult. Sit on your porch and catapult pumpkins at anyone who comes within 50 yards of your house.

13. When people come to the door, jump out a nearby window, crashing through the glass, and run screaming down the street.

14. Answer the door dressed as a pilgrim. Stare for a moment, pretend to be confused, and start flipping through a calendar.

15. Instead of candy, give away colored eggs. If anyone protests, explain that you've been trying to get rid of the eggs since Easter.

16. Answer the door dressed as a dentist. Angrily lecture them about tooth decay until they leave.

17. Answer the door with a mouthful of M & M's and several half-eaten candy bars in your hands. Insist that all your candy is gone.

18. Open your door wearing only your underwear, scratching your butt, burping and yell, "Waddaya want ya little brats!"

19. Put a horn and tails on a pumpkin and put it on a throne on your porch. Insist that they all bow down and worship Beelzebub, Prince of Darkness.

20. Dress up like a bunny rabbit. Yell and curse from the moment you open the door and angrily throw the candy at them

[PeteFromMontana]

Trick or treat!

[DainBramage]

Name you rottweiler Candy, then put up a sign "Candy around back".

[Frank_Discussion]

"17. Answer the door with a mouthful of M & M's and several half-eaten candy bars in your hands. Insist that all your candy is gone."

There's a good chance of that at my house. Mmmmm... Snickers...

[theDentist]

16. Answer the door dressed as a dentist. Angrily lecture them about tooth decay until they leave.

What's this guy tryin' to do? Ruin my business?

[theDentist]

21. If there's a group, tell them that you just saw the one in (whatever) costume sneaking candy out of someone else's bag. Chastise him. Let them go home and fight it out.

22. Answer the door wearing nothing but roller skates. Tell them you're a pull toy.

23. Tell them you want to see how much candy they have. Give them a Tax Bill, courtesy of the D.N.C.

[JoeSixPack1]

What's this guy tryin' to do? Ruin my business?

After just paying cash for a partial upper, you guys got nothing to worry about! <|:-)~~

[CSM]

Bump for Flurry's creativity!

[July 4th]

golf balls

Oh yeah, that's a great idea. Someone's expecting candy, and you give them a golf ball. Hope you have strong windows.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Posted earlier, under title "How to get your house egged until Kingdom Come"

[cyclotic]

Golf ball nothing. I gave some kid a whole coconut once. He ran off the porch screaming DAAAAAAAAD...I GOT A COCONUT.

Got trick or treated by a bunch of kids while driving through an alley once. I threw a bunch of individually wrapped cough drops out the window. They went scrambling for them until someone figured out what they were.

Finally, one year, I ran out of candy. Gave out little packs of ketchup, mustard and sugar packets (skip the middleman)

[Sunshine Sister]

#12 is pretty funny. The mental pictures are great!

[Fred Hayek]

10. When you open the door, shout, "Drop and give me twenty!" and Insist they each do push-ups before you give them any candy.

Now I have an excuse to get my old uniform out.

[Zevonismymuse]

Answer the door dressed as a dentist.

Our Denist spends every Halloween at our house, so I will tell him to wear his smock. We live in downtown Santa Ynez,CA and there is a street fair around the corner. Being the only residential structure downtown, we are the most trick or treated house in the Valley. Our Dentist and his wife hang out with us while his 5 children go to the street fair.

I love Halloween because we get to see so many friends and neighbors. The older kids come over early to get dressed because we have a whacky clothes collection second to none.

Thank you for the suggestions. We will be trying out several and we will report back.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

ping...

[Conspiracy Guy]

Try this

The doorbell rings you yell, “Who’s there?”
Then turn the TV up.
Shout loudly, “Hey nobody’s home,
We’re just the cat and pup.”
Then sneak out of the backdoor,
And creep your way around.
Say, “Boy this is a strange house,
Did you hear that sound?”
Drop to the ground and roll about,
Shout, “There it is again”.
Then jump up and shout loudly,
“Look out I’m going in”.
Run through the door and flash the lights,
Pound loudly on the wall.
If all those kids are still around
Give Candy to them all.

Flurry 10/31/3

[CHICAGOFARMER]

21.

This will happen at our home this evening.


Question to the trick or treaters

Are you a Republican or Democrat? those that answer Republican will get candy.


Question to the trick or treaters.

Do you like our president George W Bush? Or would you vote for George W Bush if you could?

[Hacksaw]

17. Answer the door with a mouthful of M & M's and several half-eaten candy bars in your hands. Insist that all your candy is gone.

Unfortuneatly, this is coming true in my case.

[Post Toasties]

Put scoops of ice cream in their bags of candy.

[tioga]

One year a neighbor had a tree with three trunks that grew next to a long winding sidewalk up to her house. She perched there one Holloween dressed as a witch, with a black caldron of candy. When the kids would get right next to her she would move and say "Happy Holloween, Kiddies" in a cackling witch's voice, the kids ran off without the candy....she was very disappointed that they were too scared and gave up after an hour...

[boris]

There was this kid in my neighborhood who hated me and I hated him. On Holloween one year, I knew he was gonna try to mess up our place--TP or whatever. I was waiting.

In one hand a 16-ounce container of pure liquid latex. In the other hand, a similar amount of vinegar.

Apply latex to top of head. Check.
Apply vinegar to latexed hair. Check.

Funny; he was absent from school the next day and left me and our house strictly alone afterward.

Science is wonderful, isn't it?

Today, there'd probably be a lawsuit or three.

--Boris