We're eager to hear stories about your Halloween. Fill us in on where the best parties were, which costumes rocked and which ones flopped, plus whatever else is on your mind this Monday morning. Here's my weekend rewind. Add yours in the comments.
FRIDAY
Feeling the need to do something Halloween-ish, I embarked on a ghoulish outing to Fright Night Scream Park in Clovis. I'd never been before, and though I was probably twice the age of much of clientele, I had a great time. I realize it's too late to make recommendations now, but I really enjoyed their 3-D clown haunt. It was quite a trip.
SATURDAY
Halloween started for me in a very frightening way -- furniture shopping. Let me just say this to the salesman at the upstart Furniture City (which took the place of Circuit City, in case you're wondering) -- getting angry and insulting my wife and I is not the way to close a sale.
We decided to stay home for Halloween this year, giving out candy to the neighborhood kids and whatnot. I haven't really done that before as an adult, so that was fun. Though it did create some interesting stories.
I had to tell a group of teenagers (aged 13 or 15 or somewhere in that range) to "do better next year" when they showed up at my house. One was in costume, but his buddies weren't. One didn't even have a candy-collecting bag, and just expected me to put candy in his hand.
On the other side of the age spectrum: I gave a 3-year-old princess a Reese's (what I consider the good stuff) and she looked at me and said "I want more!" Wow, kid. Some nerve there. I, of course, caved and gave her another piece of candy. I'm a sucker.
On a cute note: Check out a picture of my dog with a trick-or-treat bucket around his neck. This lasted just long enough to take the picture.
SUNDAY
Woke up super early thanks to the time change. I watched the 49ers take another tough loss, then ventured out to the mall. While my wife shopped, I watched a couple of teenagers wander around, falling down and falling all over each other. Shouts to sloppy drunk Sundays at the mall!
I also watched a little bit of the Packers/Vikings game (Boo Favre!) the World Series (Boo Yankees!) and then the almost-season-finale of Mad Men (Boo Betty Draper!). And that was the end.
YOUR TURN
Give us your crazy Halloween stories plus whatever other weekend adventures you got involved with. Shout out any local establishments you enjoyed.
Mike, thanks for mentioning the bad experience at Furniture City. I am also shopping for furniture and thought about going in that place, but not anymore.
They had some good stuff in there, but the salesman was so pushy that we started looking elsewhere for what we wanted. We came to find out he was actually trying to sell us something that was the wrong size too.
On a different note: Furniture City sells a lot of Ashley Furniture, and The Bee reported today that Ashley Furniture would be opening a store at River Park.
Mike, I walked into Furniture City soon after it opened and was literally trailed around the store by one of the hyper-aggressive salesmen. There was a whole pack of them lurking at the entrance, and it's obvious they were taking turns stalking their prey.
I decided to stay in too and pass out candy (I went to the Selma Band Review in the morning and that drained my energy for the day. Not to mention I went to Edwards and saw This Is It at 11:30 the previous night). Had a good stream of kids all night. It was actually fun!! I had a little boy dress as Michael Jackson (and gave him extra candy- he was excited and ran back to his parents yelling "I GOT EXTRA CANDY!!!") and a middle-schooler dressed as Lady Gaga. Plus the usual pirates, witches, and zobies.
On Friday the Fetish Fashion show at Audie's was a HUGE hit!! We had to turn people away at the door....although with the anticipation of women dressed in various "fetish's" and scantily, I may add, that's not much of a stretch!
Saturday, a bunch of F-14'ers straight from the 70's terrorized the Tower District. Wonder why they didn't get arrested.
Hopefully HMac will post a picture of them.
Sunday was nursing a Halloween hangover. So glad that's over.
Went to the Bulldogs game Saturday, and found a good Taquira near the stadium to grab a couple beer before kickoff, then shopped a little, grabbed a pizza at Luna's and then went home to hand out candy. Like Mike, we had some fun interactions. My cat and I are not big fans of the kids who ring the doorbell over and over and over and over again. Once is enough. Oh, and when did kids stop saying trick or treat and instead just shove their bag in your face? But, at least there is still hope, I did get a lot of thank yous from some really cute kids decked out in their costumes.
Details on the taqueria, please.
I ran out of Milk Duds very quickly and had to
dip into my dog's stash of Beggin' Strips.
Sorry, Molly.
You, too, kids.