Call me Mr Grinch, but:
After attending a train show all day October 31 with the club and the modules, I was too tired to mess with trick-or-treaters.
So I chained my gate and made up a sign that read “Sorry. No Treats here tonight due to illness. Might be the Swine flu.”
It sure was nice and peaceful around here Halloween. 
“You’re a mean one, Mr Grinch…”…
John Bouck said::lol: :lol:
Call me Mr Grinch, but: After attending a train show all day October 31 with the club and the modules, I was too tired to mess with trick-or-treaters. So I chained my gate and made up a sign that read "Sorry. No Treats here tonight due to illness. Might be the Swine flu." It sure was nice and peaceful around here Halloween. :) :) :)
What a sw… errrr I mean a fine idea!
:lol: :lol:
Do you think I can get away with it next year as well?
Put up a sign “tricks only at this house”
that might work
E-gads We had groups of five to 12 from 7pm till 8pm and ran out of goodies, 20 pounds of cavity making stuff gone in short order !!! We turned off the outside lights and they still knocked or rang the door bell in the dark.
Next year ???
TOF in Lost Wages
Out here on the desert and with dirt roads I havn’t seen a trick or treater since 1982!
Darryl Noble said:
E-gads We had groups of five to 12 from 7pm till 8pm and ran out of goodies, 20 pounds of cavity making stuff gone in short order !!! We turned off the outside lights and they still knocked or rang the door bell in the dark.Next year ???
TOF in Lost Wages
TOF,
Feel free to use my idea next year, but on further thought, I would omit “Swine Flu” from my next sign.
Wouldn’t want the entire neighborhood up in arms.
Hey, it’s Trick or Treat, right?
Well, everyone of the candy grabbin’ hoods got tricked!
We’re like you Doug, we live two miles out of town, had one about 10 years ago!
I don’t bother with a sign. Shut the gate, turn out the lights, pull the drapes closed and the dogs and I go to the train shop in the basement. Can’t hear the door bell from down there.
GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEez do you guy’s get anything for CHRISTMAS!! or are ya toooooooooooooo sick to let Santa down the chimney!!
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Jerry,
There is no Santa! It’s a figment of your imagination.
Hurumph!
I just realized why American exported Halloween/trick&treat over the Atlantic to us in the UK. Its your revenge for George III. lol
John Say it ain’t so!!! I’ve been lied to all these 61 yrs. Dang Oh But I do have a vivid imagination! Hee hee The Regal
Hahaha I like that trick, we had some teenage girls knock at 10:30pm after we had turned out the lights. we had a just enough to go around, they said they knocked on a dare!
…next year after we’re done, I plan to hang a plastic chain across the front with the “sorry out of treats” sign hanging on it.
Saw some great costumes this year when we were walking around our “downtown” in Old Town Pasadena, a guy and his girlfriend were dressed from the movie UP! He was the grumpy old man, she was the house, literally she was wearing a cardboard model of the old house with about a dozen balloons tied to her head, the best costume was a guy dressed as a Zoltan!, the penny arcade fortune telling booth, it was truly first class job. The worst, or at best, least thought out costume was some knucklehead dressed as a serving of McDonalds French Fries, the problem was it was a full body box that covered his whole upper body and he didn’t make any arm holes, so he was nearly falling over just trying to open a door with his foot, it was hilarious to watch. I thought he’s going to be in real trouble if he ever has to hit the restroom. Dumb bunny.