Just a reminder to fellow Backroomers that if the odd stray egg happens to hit your car, get it washed off quickly and thoroughly, otherwise it will have an etching effect on the paintwork. One car dealership local to me in recent times had to spend £100s on just one car for panel re-sprays.
Oz (as was)
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No-one dares come here, for the ultimate trick or treat my dog has a very special trick he can play...............(no not biting, but he will hide in a dark corner and creep up very very slowly and quietly on his victims and then let rip - oh yes)
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No-one dares come here, for the ultimate trick or treat my dog has a very special trick he can play...............(no not biting, but he will hide in a dark corner and creep up very very slowly and quietly on his victims and then let rip - oh yes)
A dog that can pass wind at will, that is a trick.
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Your dog doesn't have to bite anyone to be considered a danger to the public.
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Probably not, but I don't worry, plenty of warning notices around the property........
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It's the egg shell that does the damage to the paintwork, poor pa had to have the front wing resprayed on his week old 3 series a few years back after an egg impact had wrecked it.
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I've been out for the evening, returned home at 8 ish to find somebody had pushed an apple up my car's exhaust pipe, it came out easily.
Halloween, another American import that we're better off without.
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They're kicking it into touch in France according to the BBC website. Sales of garb have dropped year on year in French supermarkets since 1992, so this year they've stop selling it and most importantly stopped promoting it.
They might be burning the odd bus or two now which isn't so good, but dropping this horrible US trend is a good sign.
Here on the Estate, we've stocked up with goodies near the front door this year - 20.50 at the moment, but nobody here to take it yet.
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Its not just throwing eggs at cars, but throwing them from cars.
A few months ago I was at the bus stop with some colleagues after a night out. I had my back to te road when an egg flew over my shoulder and landed on my colleagues quite expensive jacket. It cost him quite a bit to get it dry cleaned, but I couldnt turn round quickly enough to get the reg number.
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I think the football has won the youngsters over - we've had no visitors at all.
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What\'s for you won\'t pass you by
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We disconected the doorbell and ignored any knocking. Except for the single loud knock which turned out to be an egg hitting the window.
I hate this night more than I hate bonfire night. I normally do some deliveries on a Tuesday evening, but I have had to re-arrange my week because past experience has shown no-one will answer the door on 31st october.
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Dog's had a peaceful night. It's come in for it's evening bonio but gone out again. I think it has something to do with the smell of spent fireworks........
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I turned off my automatic porch light, left the house in complete darkness, and went shopping at Lakeside!
Fortunately there weren't any problems when I returned home. I have followed this course of action for the past couple of years since being assaulted a few years ago (spat at by an unhappy parent of a couple of trick or treaters, which I reported to the police).
If they see a house in complete darkness without any signs of anyone being at home, experience has shown that they don't bother knocking and go on to find other houses which look more promising.
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I shall be checking my exhaust pipes before heading off to work tomorrow then.... I usually tape the letter box closed on halloween. I got rid of the doorbell altogether as only sales people and chuggers were using it. Having a bell button with no bell did used to keep them at a minimum too.
I suppose it is illegal to use a flame thrower on trick or treaters. I still can't decide whether carol singers or trick or treaters are worse. Both are annoyed if you open the door then close it immediately. Some are annoyed if they think you're in and you're ignoring them. Worse things are those awful rotary club float things. One parks right outside my house with dreadful xmas carols blaring. Damn thing has even parked across my driveway before now blocking me in for nearly an hour! That year I was sorely tempted to a) give them 120db of black sabbath and b) a stream of choice 4 letter words about how rude it was to park across someone's drive.
teabelly
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There's always a fair amount of egg on the pavements round here, along with other much worse substances.
What on earth is Halowe'en? A Scottish and American thing I believe. Although they did say that the year after 9/11 there were thousands of Osama bin Laden masks in Dublin on this day, mostly on people too small to pass for the old monster himself (actually I believe he's quite a lot younger than me. He'd need to be to spend so much time in anonymous vehicles fleeing from place to place not even feeling ashamed of himself).
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Despite the fact no-one even rang the bell last night, the car got 'egged' anyway. I only realised when I noticed the ice I was scraping off this morning was yellow. At least I hope it was egg!
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Despite the fact no-one even rang the bell last night, the car got 'egged' anyway. I only realised when I noticed the ice I was scraping off this morning was yellow. At least I hope it was egg!
Do you live near pugugly and his dog?
I have not noticed anything other than groups of little monters in the suburbs and groups of bigger monsters in town drinking. As for my car it has remained untouched and spending the night in my girlfriends uni hall of residence ensured nobody called.
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Actually not American but English in origin.
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No-one dares come here, for the ultimate trick or treat my dog has a very special trick he can play...............(no not biting, but he will hide in a dark corner and creep up very very slowly and quietly on his victims and then let rip - oh yes)
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Can I borrow him next year please.Sounds like fun.
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Hallowe'en is NOT an American import.
How ignorant can you be of your culture..
Read Tam O 'Shanter by a certain Mr Robert Burns (deceased) and you will find it several hnudred years old .. from our northern neighbours..
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They're probably referring to the American tradition of "trick or treat" not Halloween itself.
Halloween and trick or treating is a big deal to the Americans and has been for ages. The supermarkets and other retail outlets in the UK have only really taken to it in the last 15 years or so
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They're probably referring to the American tradition of "trick or treat" not Halloween itself. Halloween and trick or treating is a big deal to the Americans and has been for ages. The supermarkets and other retail outlets in the UK have only really taken to it in the last 15 years or so
Indeed. Scotland> America > here, dammit. Culture drift, or creep. Irritating when we have a perfectly good festival at this time of year involving burning a Jacobean Catholic putschist in effigy.
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Well being a Scottish supermarket manager with kids I think I may have a bit of a vested interest here! What does Halloween mean to me?
- Selling loads and loads of fruit that perhaps wouldn't be the customer's first choice any other time of the year!
- Selling loads of confectionery etc , increasing my store sales dramatically meaning that we can use more hours, meaning more staff get more pay.
- Gives me something to put in my seasonal aisle until the depots and suppliers can get all the Christmas stock in.
- Making sure I work backshift on Halloween as the shop is quiet after 6pm and I absolutely hate trick or treaters! The one time I was in the house, SWMBO went out with the kids round the doors and I sat in with all the blinds closed and lights off!
- Then the kids come back in with bags and bags of stuff, the confectionery is separated from the fruit and is used for their snacks etc for the coming weeks. Some of the fruit will get used for the next couple of days and then it will all be binned and replaced with some decent Golden Dels etc.
Oh, and as for the egg thing, I have never heard of this, have never encountered a flying egg or the remains of one?
No idea what Halloween is all about, just know that like may other events, it is turned into a huge Retail feature. If customers didn't buy it, it wouldn't happen!
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>>plenty of warning notices around the property........
I have two large dogs who are absolutely unsafe around strangers, especially if my children are about. I used to have copious signs about but a local solictior, who was admittedly was as relaxed as a newt at the time, advised me to take them down. His explanation was that if the dogs bit someone, the signs were no defence. Worse, they showed that you knew the dogs might/would bite. Whereas with no signs then at least the first time you could maintain that it had never happened before and that you would put up signs immediately. Accoridng to him, not much of a defense tactic but more than nothing.
As it happens you'd entiher have to break in the house or climb a 12ft stone wall to get into the garden to meet the dogs - neither of which are easy to do and you'd be doing it in the face of some rather loud barking.
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Got back from leicester yeasterday and pulled into my driveway. After 15 seconds a big retreiver type dog comes bounding up barking and barking. I like dogs so wasn't scared but the barking was getting anoying. In the end I decided to give the dog a blast of my horn, with it being only a few feet away from the bonnet. The thing stopped barking and stared at the bonnet like it was listening. After I stopped toting my horn the dog just went back to barking at me again! Useless horns.
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