Today, I dressed up like a pirate, dressed my dog as a parrot and bought $30 worth of candy to pass out to trick-or-treaters. I waited by the door for 3 hours. Not one kid came. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I bought fifteen bags of candy for the trick-or-treaters. I sat outside with a bowl of candy the whole night. Only one person came. FML
Today, I had to tell all the trick-or-treaters that I'd run out of candy. I'd actually bought about $50 worth of candy, but managed to eat all of it by myself, sitting alone in my apartment, exactly like last year. FML
Today, I spent over an hour decorating my house for trick or treaters. I never got one person at my door because I forgot to unlock my gate. FML
Today, I dressed up as a ghost and walked down the street to meet my friends. A dog somehow got loose and decided my "flowy" costume was the perfect chew toy. I spent the evening dodging an overly enthusiastic dog and getting barked at. FML
Today, I asked my girlfriend to get a bunch of candy for our first Halloween at our new house, so she got $60 worth. We got into an argument about who was going to give it out. It’s now 9 p.m. No one came to our door all night. FML
Today, one of my neighbors dressed up in the exact same costume as me. Every house I go to refuses to give me candy because my neighbor has already been there. FML
Today, I was handing candy to a little boy who was trick or treating by himself. He was small enough to grab the candy and run past me into my house. I've been searching my house for two hours and still can't find him. I'm afraid to go to sleep. FML
Today, I spent over $160 and 2 hours preparing for a Halloween party I was throwing. The only person who showed up was my sister, who helped me decorate. FML
Today, I went to a Halloween party dressed as a pirate. Someone complimented me on how convincing the fake teeth were that I had on for my costume. I wasn't wearing fake teeth. FML
Today, a kid came Trick-or-Treating at my house. When I told her it was still one more day until Halloween, and that I didn't have any candy, she wound-up her fist, punched me in the groin, and ran off laughing. FML
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suboy 10
Was your light on???
gjortx 2
Well that sucks. At least you can eat the candy. My house got wiped out of all the candy by all the trick r treaters. Maybe next year.
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Comments (121)
melissasquires 9
Eat all the candy.
KiddNYC1O 22
You shouldn't have improv with that Neverland sign. They're on to it.
jarockstar27 10
Same thing happened for me OP, only i didn't spend all the money! No trick or treaters. What has this holiday come to?!
raraisbang 12
the churches in my area have basically taken over Halloween and turned it into the "fall festival." Which sucks, by the way. They give out crappy candy and get offended by super scary costumes.
lollipop77_fml 6
Arrr...And that is why you buy candy that you can use in baking or that you won't mind munching on for the rest of the year... Arrr. You can use the pirate outfit again next year :)
sorrowsangel89 1
If it makes u feel better the same thing happened to me. But with different costumes. And I'm on a tight budget so I really couldn't afford candy, but didn't want to disappoint trick-or-treaters so I bought it anyways.
ambear26 14
Same thing happened to me so I basically sat by the door eating all the candy and finally a trick or treater came and all I had left was the nasty candy.
jordanhraye 18
ellytoad 13
I concur with this eloquent and thoughtful comment.
noisebox 1
You get an A for effort!
SusanBieber 10
That's like my house, not including this year because my state wouldn't let kids trick or treat because of the hurricane, in all the 12 year my family has lived here not one kid has ever came to our house. We still buy candy though, just in case.
PaperUmbrellas 4
I also bought 30 dollars worth of candy, had maybe, 15 kids total come by. Hundreds used to go through the neighborhood, Halloween is dying.