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angryrobots
Mar 31, 2005

We took the kids trick or treating in the historic housing district, which was interesting. Maybe 20% participation, but those who were, were pretty awesome. This one house had 4 projector screens with spooky displays; the whole yard was elaborately decorated and they gave out a bag of good candy, sealed with a custom stamp with their address.

Then we went to a downtown burger bar which was pretty dead being Monday night, and my 3 yo who is potty training took her first fully successful #2 in the toilet there.

.....yes, my daughter took her first sit down poo poo in a bar bathroom.

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Somewhat Heroic
Oct 11, 2007

(Insert Mad Max related text)



Last year we destroyed 300+ pieces in short order. This year not as many it seems. Being a school night things thinned out by 8:00 pretty sharply. Had a great time taking the kids out. My wife and I split between handing out candy and going around. It's nice to connect with the neighbors.

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

🤗YOU'RE WELCOME🤗

West SAAB Story posted:



I don't actually pay any attention to you or your life- but since you took a potshot, I figured I might as well be neighborly and do the same. Happy pooping!

If you think what I said in the other thread is a potshot, you might as well leave again. Cause that's called a loving joke, and you have notoriously thin skin.

West SAAB Story
Mar 13, 2014

by Athanatos

(and can't post for 278 days!)

iwentdoodie posted:

If you think what I said in the other thread is a potshot, you might as well leave again. Cause that's called a loving joke, and you have notoriously thin skin.

You're cute. Let's make out.

Rhyno
Mar 22, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
No trick or treating for us here, the community doesn't allow it which is honestly a weird policy but I don't really mind. Saved me money on candy this year.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

CharlesM posted:

I only see an error message.

Weird upload issue with Imgur:



We took our kid around my parenta neighborhood and got a good haul. Came back to our house and nobody had take any of the candy from our Away From Home bowl on the steps. So we got that too. He was happy.

One of the neighbors had a projection on a sheet in their window with a movie cycling between a Witch telling stories and a Headless man wandering an empty corridor. Pretty wicked.

CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 04:27 on Nov 1, 2016

Seat Safety Switch
May 27, 2008

MY RELIGION IS THE SMALL BLOCK V8 AND COMMANDMENTS ONE THROUGH TEN ARE NEVER LIFT.

Pillbug
Twenty kids :(

West SAAB Story
Mar 13, 2014

by Athanatos

(and can't post for 278 days!)

I still have this manys left!



They took everything that didn't suck.

I looked at my receipts, and according to the bags, I bought about 900 pieces. I couldn't have eaten more than 50...er... 75 of those.

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

🤗YOU'RE WELCOME🤗

We had maybe 30 total.

By the end the wife was giving double handfuls of candy to every kid.

But our dog got lots of pets, because as far as she's concerned anyone who comes to the door is there to see her.

slidebite
Nov 6, 2005

Good egg
:colbert:

Ended up with 247 kids.

At first I was being overly generous with 2 bags of chips, chocolate bar and generic candy thing. After about the first hour I thought it wise to cut back.

By 8, totally ran out of chocolate and candy. Closed up shop at 8:30. Still have some doritos/cheetos leftover in reserve which will go to work tomorrow or else I'll eat them if they stay at home. :btroll:

West SAAB Story
Mar 13, 2014

by Athanatos

(and can't post for 278 days!)

I'm still waiting for a "I'm paying for their schooling you fucks" goon story. I hope to see one before I die (again :haw:).

Elmnt80
Dec 30, 2012


Rhyno posted:

No trick or treating for us here, the community doesn't allow it which is honestly a weird policy but I don't really mind. Saved me money on candy this year.

What kind of community of monsters do you live with? Granted I gave out 0 candy, but thats because there are no kids in my lovely neighborhood.

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

Tell him about the blower!


We had a couple assortment bags of candy. Ran out at about 8:30 after about 20-30 kids, so not bad. I planted a tree in the yard (got a free tree from the local power utility program, and it showed up on Saturday. Weekend was full, so...) while my wife and daughter handed out candy. I had a bluetooth speaker and Pandora's "Halloween Party" channel going.

In other news, I'm joining the "gently caress Amazon Prime" bandwagon. poo poo didn't show up today, despite being ordered on Friday with 2-day. I didn't go with 1-day, because my new phone was scheduled to be (and was) delivered today, so I didn't need the case before then. Looking at the tracking, the stupid fuckers handed it of the the loving USPS, who provided no tracking, and never gets anything anywhere on time. This isn't a critical package, but they don't know that, and what's the point of paying for Prime if they can't get the poo poo delivered on time? I believe I shall be complaining, just on principle.

nm
Jan 28, 2008

"I saw Minos the Space Judge holding a golden sceptre and passing sentence upon the Martians. There he presided, and around him the noble Space Prosecutors sought the firm justice of space law."

I went to my parents house to watch the vikings lose (because they have ESPN). They did 886 pieces from 5PM to 7:45PM. That place was a loving zoo.

Rhyno
Mar 22, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

Cop Porn Popper posted:

What kind of community of monsters do you live with? Granted I gave out 0 candy, but thats because there are no kids in my lovely neighborhood.

Apartment community with no parking lots and no sidewalks.

Elmnt80
Dec 30, 2012


Also, gently caress bmw/mini of tampa. Contacted them saturday in a faint hope of tracking down a part for a commercial account, their parts department was miraculously open and told me they would have it wednesday. I asked them multiple times to confirm this was a for sure thing. They did. Contacted the commercial customer and said they would see it late wednesday or early thursday, so they sold the job. This morning mini of tampa called us to tell us it would instead have to come from germany and it would be 3-14 days. Glad I'm not back in till thursday so I don't have to deal with this mess. :smithicide:

randomidiot
May 12, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 11 years!)

Darchangel posted:

In other news, I'm joining the "gently caress Amazon Prime" bandwagon. poo poo didn't show up today, despite being ordered on Friday with 2-day. I didn't go with 1-day, because my new phone was scheduled to be (and was) delivered today, so I didn't need the case before then. Looking at the tracking, the stupid fuckers handed it of the the loving USPS, who provided no tracking, and never gets anything anywhere on time. This isn't a critical package, but they don't know that, and what's the point of paying for Prime if they can't get the poo poo delivered on time? I believe I shall be complaining, just on principle.

FWIW, I know Amazon's own internal logistics barely had any work today. I'm assuming because they know leaving boxes on someone's front porch on Halloween is just not a very good idea. I can't speak for USPS on that though. Prime Now (the part I work for) was having a shitload of problems getting people to work today, probably because drivers knew that leaving poo poo on people's doorstep was a Bad Idea today. I worked Uber Eats instead, Amazon is all too quick to fire us if someone complains about not getting something.

But definitely complain. They pretty much offer you an extra month of Prime for free as soon as you make any noises about being unhappy.

nm posted:

No one comes to my apartment.

Got home around 7. Made sure to have candy for the first time in years. Not a single knock. My apartment complex is a mix of 1, 2, and 3 bedroom apartments, and I know that at least 2 people in my building (which is all 1 bedrooms) have kids in their apartment. The property across the street is low income and mostly 2 bedrooms, I figured they'd have a lot of kids out.

.... maybe nobody wants to walk up to the top (3rd) floor for some reason? v:v:v Oh well, more candy for me! (... I should maybe get some insulin first though) I only dropped $5 on candy anyway, two really small packages (Butterfingers and Twix), I didn't really expect anyone to make their way up the stairs to my door.

It seems like a lot of kids are out long before the sun goes down now too, which just takes away most of the fun IMO. Also I was working until the sun went down, so....

Upside is I can probably buy black lights and smoke machines super cheap tomorrow!

Beverly Cleavage posted:

I think it depends on a number of circumstances. I've lived in two places (one rented, one owned) that were mailing address representative of one town, but physically in another town. When it came to purchase/sell the one I owned, it caused a few people to trip up during the process, and some paperwork had to be redone. I'm surprised it didn't come up before.

An area I regularly deliver to has a mailing address of Frisco TX.

The properties are located in Hackberry TX, and the school district serving Hackberry is in Little Elm TX.

Neither Google Maps nor Waze recognize the address if you put in Hackberry, of course. I'd guess it's because Hackberry doesn't have a post office of its own, and is served by a Frisco post office. The city's own website states "YOU ARE NOT IN FRISCO ISD, YOU ONLY HAVE A FRISCO MAILING ADDRESS!!11!!1!", and "city hall" has a Frisco mailing address.

Magnus Praeda
Jul 18, 2003
The largess in the land.

Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:

But definitely complain. They pretty much offer you an extra month of Prime for free as soon as you make any noises about being unhappy.

I've only had them fail to hit the 2-day estimate twice. The first time I got a couple free months of Prime and the second time after a week of delay they literally just overnighted me another of whatever it was I ordered (I think it was a cable or something), gratis, and told me to keep the original if it ever showed up (which I believe it did like a month later).

Amazon's customer service has never failed to make me feel that they are concerned about the issue and want to make it right.

Halloween chat: We got twenty-ish kids (up from the two we got at our last house). My wife was doing the "take two" thing, so we probably gave out 50 or so pieces. I bought 300 pieces of candy... :btroll:

randomidiot
May 12, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 11 years!)

Magnus Praeda posted:

I've only had them fail to hit the 2-day estimate twice. The first time I got a couple free months of Prime and the second time after a week of delay they literally just overnighted me another of whatever it was I ordered (I think it was a cable or something), gratis, and told me to keep the original if it ever showed up (which I believe it did like a month later).

A couple of months ago, I got a text stating my order had been "delivered to receptionist".

It was Sunday, I'd ordered next day since it was kinda important. The leasing office for my apartment complex is a quarter mile away (this "property" is 4 different neighboring complexes bought up by the same management company, with one office now), on a different road, and isn't open Sundays. And I was home all day, so I know drat well they didn't try coming to the door.

Called Amazon asking wtf. They said I'd have to wait "2 business days" to make any kind of claim, "in case the driver found it in their car". :wtf:

Went to the office anyway. Found a stack of packages for several apartment complexes dumped in front of the office. :fuckoff:

Amazon CS is really hit and miss. Usually it's great. Sometimes it's terrible. And even though I'm one of the ones doing delivery for Amazon, I die a bit inside anytime I see a package being delivered by AMZL (Amazon Logistics), since I know there's a very good chance of it not showing up.

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



my neighbours brought me chana chaat and pakora from diwali last night so i ate that while handing out candy to all the kids

i still have three bagfulls left send help

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

:h:

Last year I bought loads of sweets so of course there were no kids out trick or treating.

This year alllllllllllllll the kids were out, so many that it honestly made me wonder where they lived because at best I've seen 4 playing outside around here at any one time during summer. So of course I had no sweets to give out this year.

fridge corn
Apr 2, 2003

NO MERCY, ONLY PAIN :black101:
Im not sure about trick or treating is handing out loads of unhealthy sweets to children really a good idea??

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

:h:

It is though. If you can make but a single person happy if only for a moment, it is a fine and good thing.

Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 09:24 on Nov 1, 2016

cakesmith handyman
Jul 22, 2007

Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

slidebite posted:

150+ kids in the last 1:30

Might blow well over 200 this year

Err, phrasing?

Went to a Halloween party at the house off some people my wife met through the kids of another friend (convoluted story), so I finally got to wear the Zoidberg costume I made years ago, met some new nice people, had adult conversations with new people, it was great.

spog
Aug 7, 2004

It's your own bloody fault.

sidewalk gum posted:

Err, phrasing?

Glad it's not just me that was confused/concerned by that post.

meatpimp
May 15, 2004

Psst -- Wanna buy

:) EVERYWHERE :)
some high-quality thread's DESTROYED!

:kheldragar:

I live on a quiet cul de sac. We had three groups, all from this cul de sac. Across the street is a couple streets with some really nice houses (~$500k-$1m, which is a lot for this part of the city/state/country). My girl scored over 200 pieces in a little over an hour with a record 9 full-sized.

I've got a lot left over, along with all the crap she grabbed. I'll be taking them to my class today and the students will be told that they MUST take all of it. I don't need all of that crap in my house (because I'd eat it).

iwentdoodie posted:

If you think what I said in the other thread is a potshot, you might as well leave again. Cause that's called a loving joke, and you have notoriously thin skin.

It's like you've never seen Viggen before.

Hi Viggen. :wave:

Tomarse
Mar 7, 2001

Grr



sidewalk gum posted:

Err, phrasing?

Went to a Halloween party at the house off some people my wife met through the kids of another friend (convoluted story), so I finally got to wear the Zoidberg costume I made years ago, met some new nice people, had adult conversations with new people, it was great.

Most adult conversations recently depress me as there is always someone talking up the steaming heap of poo poo that is 'brexit'.

spog
Aug 7, 2004

It's your own bloody fault.

Tomarse posted:

Most adult conversations recently depress me as there is always someone talking up the steaming heap of poo poo that is 'brexit'.

"Now, I'm not racist, but....."

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

:h:

Let's just ignore that the £ has taken a nosedive off a cliff because the markets are up! No I don't know what any of it actually means but stop suggesting I made a poor decision by trying to vote out the Polish people who live up the street.

In other news dude I sit next to at work voted out. He's just come back from Amsterdam and was kicking off that everything cost so much because the £ is in the toilet, it's like he couldn't make the connection...

fridge corn
Apr 2, 2003

NO MERCY, ONLY PAIN :black101:
At least once trump is crowned potus we won't look so stupid

slidebite
Nov 6, 2005

Good egg
:colbert:

sidewalk gum posted:

Err, phrasing?
:holymoley:

Yeah, that could have been said better LOL

beep-beep car is go
Apr 11, 2005

I can just eyeball this, right?



We had a decent run of kids, our neighborhood is either old retired GE employees or new families with young kids (like us) My 2 yr old was all excited about going "trickertreat" and she wanted to "go see the spooky" but when it came to actually going up to houses and asking for candy she was shy and didn't want to.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

beep-beep car is go posted:

We had a decent run of kids, our neighborhood is either old retired GE employees or new families with young kids (like us) My 2 yr old was all excited about going "trickertreat" and she wanted to "go see the spooky" but when it came to actually going up to houses and asking for candy she was shy and didn't want to.

Our kid is like that. He's 4 now, and at least this year he was actually willing to go up to the houses and press the door bells. But when the person came out to give out the candy, he got super shy and quietly whispered his 'Trick-or-Treat's. He kept claiming he wanted to go back to the house too, despite the fact that every house I stopped at, he enthusiastically got out of the wagon and ran to the door.

clam ache
Sep 6, 2009

beep-beep car is go posted:

We had a decent run of kids, our neighborhood is either old retired GE employees or new families with young kids (like us) My 2 yr old was all excited about going "trickertreat" and she wanted to "go see the spooky" but when it came to actually going up to houses and asking for candy she was shy and didn't want to.

My kids were all the same way. But now there all 4 and up and were terrors yesterday. Every house got warned they would pull down there underwear. As the song goes. And then my oldest son who is autistic started asking people if they were gonna give a trick or treat. Not a single person gave a trick. Although some old lady gave my daughter a Halloween popcorn ball which is as hard and heavy as a baseball.

Phone
Jul 30, 2005

親子丼をほしい。

The Prong Song posted:

I just found out that the new (to me) house I bought, my first ever home purchase, is not in the city I believed it was in. It is, in fact, according to everyone except the United States Postal Service and online maps (like Google Maps, Bing, etc.) in the city I specifically set out not to buy a home in.

Does it seem ridiculous this is the case? Certainly. You'd think that somewhere in all of the paperwork and documentation I had to fill out/review, there would be some mention of the actual city this place is in, but, nope. Apparently it's all about the county.

Until suddenly it came time to deal with property taxes. And now not only do I find out I'm paying 20% more per year, but also that all of the services I thought I was going to be using from the city MY STREET ADDRESS IS IN I'm not eligible for.

I am, like, white-hot incandescent about this.

What city are you in and what city did you think you were in?

e: dawat's closed, rest in pizzas

Phone fucked around with this message at 15:02 on Nov 1, 2016

RillAkBea
Oct 11, 2008

Olympic Mathlete posted:

In other news dude I sit next to at work voted out. He's just come back from Amsterdam and was kicking off that everything cost so much because the £ is in the toilet, it's like he couldn't make the connection...

That's not that bad, the guy I work with is just a horrible creepy bigot rear end in a top hat. If he's not talking about how some of our older female customers dress too drat young, or talking about his creepy revenge fantasies he's probably trying to talk to me about one of his conspiracy theories or his horrifically skewed views on politics. At least he's stopped boasting about his divorce.

Phone
Jul 30, 2005

親子丼をほしい。

RillAkBea posted:

That's not that bad, the guy I work with is just a horrible creepy bigot rear end in a top hat. If he's not talking about how some of our older female customers dress too drat young, or talking about his creepy revenge fantasies he's probably trying to talk to me about one of his conspiracy theories or his horrifically skewed views on politics. At least he's stopped boasting about his divorce.

I'm going to guess an ex pat?

also, also, also: i'm going to be in country late March into early April, I've never been to Kyushu. Let me know if you want to touch Miatas.

The Prong Song
Sep 7, 2002


WHITE
DRIVES
MATTER

Phone posted:

What city are you in and what city did you think you were in?

e: dawat's closed, rest in pizzas

Durham/Morrisville. You know why Dawat closed? I mean, best Indian buffet in the RTP area, gone JUST LIKE THAT?!


I met my not-yet-met next-door neighbor last night. He seems like a decent guy, has a '99 NB with some work done on it. I am jealous of his garage setup; he has managed to do a lot with a little space and it has inspired me to try my hand at building a form-fitting workbench this weekend.

RillAkBea
Oct 11, 2008

Phone posted:

I'm going to guess an ex pat?

also, also, also: i'm going to be in country late March into early April, I've never been to Kyushu. Let me know if you want to touch Miatas.

You guessed right. Not that I'm a glorious nipponjin myself but you sure get some weird assholes coming out here.

Oh for sure, I'll definitely be around in March and most probably April too. Let me know what kind of stuff you wanna see down here.

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Apr 6, 2006



I would take out $395 dollars from the ATM machine, but on top of having forgotten my PIN number, the goddamn ATM machine only dispenses $20 dollar bills.

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