People suck, and that's all there is to it

[geniph]

:-( I spent a couple of hours yesterday carving a really cool pumpkin (yes, I used one of the stencils - I cheated). I lit it about 6 and put it out, and between 6 and 7, I got half a dozen compliments on it from the folks bringing their little ones by. Then, about 7:30, I looked out to see if I needed to relight or replace the candles in the pumpkins, and mine was gone. Somebody swiped it right off the front step, right under my nose. Selfish bastards - see something they like, so they just take it without thinking of the fact that now everyone else can't enjoy it too.

I left for work this morning, and saw a suspiciously fresh smashed pumpkin in front of the one house on our block that has B/C stickers on their car. (We have a little enclave of Kerry signs around us, as we've distributed yard signs to our neighbors.)

Bastards. Hurt my feelings. :-(

[FunBobbyMucha]

1. I had a similar experience this week.

Someone went around my neighborhood putting red and white stickers with Bush's face and devil horns on all the stop signs, so they read "Stop ."

Oh, wait, that was me. Bastard!

hee hee.


(Sorry bout your jackolant)

[the Princess]

2. I couldn't agree more

People do suck. And they're mean too.

[redqueen]

3. Only a small minority

Unfortunately, we notice them more.

Sorry about your jack-o-lantern.

:hug:

[skygazer]

4. One of my first childhood traumas involved that

A group of teenage boys snatched my cute little lighted jack-o-lantern off our porch and smashed it in the road as i watched out the window. I was maybe four. It simply devastated me. I had nightmares about it for a while.

Sensitive little shit, I was.

[geniph]

5. See, that's the thing

I don't have kids, and it's not the end of the world to me or anything, but the people who swiped it don't know that there weren't little kids whose hearts were broken by swiping it - nor did they care. I just can't abide that kind of selfishness. It just purely sucks.

[Chicago Democrat]

6. My story of political vandalism...and kids

Kids are kids. I really doubt the Repubs are doing that... maybe just kids.

A similar story happened at my house..

My neighbor, who I love even tho he's totally Republican, put up a Bush Cheney sign and I teased him about it, but like I said, I love the guy and his family. Anyway, a couple of weeks ago, some kids were drinking in front of our houses and doing what kids do. So my neighbor calls the cops on them and they get taken home and one of them gets in trouble; I think he didn't have a valid drivers license. Anyway the kids came back and stole his Bush Cheney sign. Then he put another on up. Then they stole that one! The Repukes actually were selling the signs in Illinois (20 bucks each) so my neighbor stopped after two signs.

When I was a kid I remember that basically every single pumpkin put out on a porch got smashed. We would put ours in the window. Eventually they got moldy anyway. Think of the fun those kids had and Smashing Pumpkins is name a famous band because its a very American thing. Try to forgive them.

[geniph]

7. I finally came up with a theory on this

one I like better than the idea of teenagers swiping my punkin -
I think the Great Pumpkin came and Raptured up all the truly righteous pumpkins, and mine was among 'em!

:D

[geniph]

8. Dang it

DU's gone wacko - making me post duplicates!

[mreilly]

9. They took all my candy

I was home giving out candy last night (a big bowl full; about eight bucks worth, I estimate) and had a call of nature. Rather than having the kids bang down my door while I was in the bathroom I put the bowl of candy out on my stoop. Yes, I know: stupid, stupid, stupid. I reasoned that this would be OK because:

A) I had only gotten one or two trick or treaters in the past 20 minutes
B) The kids I did get were 3-4 and accompanied by polite parents
C) I would only be away a couple of minutes. I truly did not want them hammering on the door while I was occupied.

You can see where this story is going. I came outside just 3-4 minutes later to find the candy bowl bone-dry. Several kids were walking down the street in either directions and 2 kids were walking away down my driveway. I yelled at the kids on the driveway "Hey, did you kids take all the candy?" They answered no, and naturally there was nothing more I could do. Figuring that if they HAD stolen all the candy they'd have been running, not walking, I angrily slammed the door. I was forced to bring out some old Easter candy from last April to make up the deficit that these little punks caused. Needless to say, our house was probably not the most popular one on the block last night.

[geniph]

10. Oh, that BITES!

How self-centered and rude! So you can then disappoint every nice little kid who comes to the door afterward. That sucks, that just sucks.

The last couple of years, when I was tired of handing out candy, I've put it in a bag on the porch with a sign, Happy Halloween - please take one or two pieces but save some for others, and no one's ever emptied the bag. I couldn't believe it when I saw the pumpkin was missing - that's just not like our neighborhood. We all know each other, we mow each other's lawns and watch over each other here.

It just sucks when one selfish asshole spoils things for everyone else.