This Halloween, as usual, we did not stay around the paxtonland neighborhood to trick-or-treat with the kids. Like every year, we went to the kids great-grandparent’s house. His neighborhood is a fair bit nicer, the houses are dense and a lot of them participate. Plus, the great-grandparents dig the whole routine as much as we do.
We knew that we wouldn’t be around to give out candy again, not that it doesn’t stop me from convincing Mrs. Paxton to buy “handout” candy, that I later eat. Which works well for the kids, preventing me from exercising such heavy tariffs upon their candy.
Anyway, knowing we wouldn’t be around, I decided to set up a bowl full of candy, point a web cam with motion detection at it and watch the fun when we got back home.
The candy made it a surprisingly long time. Most people just took one or, two pieces and left. When the couple of kids that finally cleaned us out stopped by, there was a fair amount of candy left for them. Oh well, at least they didn’t just dump the bowl in their bags. A couple of highlights: The exceedingly creppy mask the first kid is wearing (well done), the girl noticing the webcam after she snarfed the whole bowl and me dumping a leaf out of the bowl at the end.
Now, I fully expected someone to dump the whole bowl and scoot off right away. But, most people were afraid to just take candy from the bowl and moved on. The ones that did take candy, just took one or two and went to the next house. Hell, for $1.98 worth of candy, it was a cheap and fun experiment.
Well, have a look: paxtonland_halloween_03.wmv (997kb Windows Media)