Do you have any special Halloween memories or stories to share?
I have many...
- Once when I was around 10-year-old, a convience store in my neighborhood threw up a contest for kids who previously sent them drawings, in which I participated. They were giving away many prizes the evening of Halloween, the first one being a check of $100. The drawing of the winners (which was totally random) was at around 7 pm, and I really wanted to be there (as if I had a premonition or something). I was annoying my dad as we were collecting candies, but he was like "Yeah, contest, whatever". We finally got there (me dressed up as a sexy detective), and my dad waited outside as the store was full of kids attending the giveaway. 15 minutes later, I got back outside and told my dad : "There... a check of $100."
- Also in my neighborhood, there was a dead-end street where the residents always organized extravagent stuff. It was so big and awesome, the news channels got there almost every year to cover the event. Some people threw up a show in their garage (which was awesome). Other folks set up an entire scenery in their backyard (which was awesome too) ; kids had to 'travel' through all sorts of freaky stuff to finally receive their candies. Hundreds of people gathered on that street every year, and it was like a huge Halloween festival with loud music and crazy decorations.
- The last time I collected candies on Halloween (I was about 13), my friend and I had a brilliant idea : we went collecting in stores on commercial streets. All those stores had a lot of awesome candies to give (since they were promoting their store, sorta), and nobody had the same idea as we did. Since it was late and the stores were about to close, the storeowners were literally giving us all their candies. That was so awesome, really, we both had like 3 big grocery bags full of candies each. Then, as we were returning home... we fucking ran into a gang. Shit! They weren't 4 or 5 in number... they were like 15-20 jerks (18 year-old or so). They began to throw stuff at us, then 2-3 of them ran up to us and stole all our fucking candies. Goddamn shit, fucking crap %$#! Then, at our great surprise, one guy got back to us with all our bags! He was very calm, and seemed like the gang leader or something. He went : "Sorry dudes, some of us are crazier than others. Here are your candies back. Have fun." We finally got back home with the greatest amount of candies we ever collected. Victory!
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Cryptic Vigilante
