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Joan
Citizen
Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 1100
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 30, 2002 - 4:28 pm: |     |
Tonight, as all good little Maplewoodians know, is Mischief Night. Tomorrow morning most of us will awake to toilet paper strewn tree limbs and gobs of colored shaving cream decorating the sidewalks.
What bit of mischief do/did you plan to commit in honor of this august holiday? |
apm
Citizen
Username: Apm
Post Number: 86
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 30, 2002 - 4:38 pm: | |
Steal a bottle of wine from my sister! |
duncanrogers
Citizen
Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 114
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 30, 2002 - 10:14 pm: | |
august holiday???
I thought it was October??
Man I need some sleep.
I am remembering a "devils night" in Detroit in 1992 when there were less than 100 reported arsons in the city and the pols were thrilled that the number was that low. I went out on the roof of my building in the dicey part of Detroit and watched the fires ignite all over town. It was like scores of mini-campsites. Glad to live in Maplewood now. |
Soda
Citizen
Username: Soda
Post Number: 794
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 30, 2002 - 10:40 pm: | |
There were no such pre-Halloween hijinks in my unincorporated Long Island village in the 50's. We did engage in the usual nastiness on the Big Night (filling cars with leaves, setting fire to bags of dog doo on cement front steps and sticking pins into the doorbells, then running like mad for cover to a dark yard across the street to watch irate curmudgeons stamping out the maloderous conflagrations, etc...), but never before 10/31.
Pre-holiday antics were usually reserved only for early July, when we'd set off firecrackers starting a week ahead, as prologue to the Official Procedings over at Fireman's Field in Inwood on the 4th.
We were nice boys and girls, back then. We (most of us) even had a healthy fear of Big Sam, the scariest-looking cop in the 4th Precinct, who annually drove around in an unmarked pickup truck all night on All-Hallows Eve, looking for evil-doers to drag off to the PBC (Police Boys Club), where, according to Suburban Legend, they were forced to clean up the Men's Room using old toothbrushes, then had to call their parents to come get them.
Personally, I don't approve of this "Mischief Night" stuff. Where's Sam when you need him? |
Joan
Citizen
Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 1103
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 31, 2002 - 5:48 pm: | |
Soda:
Sounds like you grew up with my husband. He is from one of the unicorporated towns near Inwood (hard to believe how many towns there actually are in the 5 towns area) and he describes having performed the very same Halloween antics that you did, also in the 1950's.
Chris never mentioned Sam, though he does have a habit of cleaning things with tooth brushes. |
Barbara
Citizen
Username: Blh
Post Number: 113
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 31, 2002 - 6:23 pm: | |
Not a bit of mischief done in my neighborhood last night - nor did I see any trees tp'd or other evidence of pranks as I drove or walked around town today. |
kathy
Citizen
Username: Kathy
Post Number: 440
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 31, 2002 - 10:57 pm: | |
I also have seen no signs of mischief-making.
When I was in high school, various of my otherwise-law-abiding friends liked to TP trees, soap windows, and knock over garbage cans on Mischief Night. My mother would not even let us out of the house on that night (not that I was interested in such activities) and if there were similar traditions here, I would not let my children out either.
My mother has a neighbor who actually bought eggs for her children to throw at the neighbors' houses! |
duncanrogers
Citizen
Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 116
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, November 1, 2002 - 6:41 am: | |
Went out Halloween morn to learn that our car had been egged. The great Karmic "right back atcha fella" many years later. How could I be mad. |
bobk
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 2226
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, November 1, 2002 - 9:13 am: | |
In our town outside of Chicago "Sam" was Officer Fleming. We junior high school kids all believed the story that he had previously been a sergeant before being busted and transfered to juvie for brutality!
In retrospect my guess is that the officer spread the story to make his job easier. |
jgberkeley
Supporter
Username: Jgberkeley
Post Number: 2379
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, November 1, 2002 - 10:18 am: | |
Well I did not fair that well.
Less than 50 kids lastnight. However, someone just had to come to my home and kick my large foam jack-o-lanten around like a beach ball breaking it up as they did.
I don't get it. |
Joan
Citizen
Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 1107
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, November 1, 2002 - 4:34 pm: | |
No mischief spotted in my area either. We got 107 kids last night, a lot fewer than in recent years but about the same number as last year. The kids were all very polite and a few were quite funny. When I asked one group if they wanted a trick or a treat, one boy prceeded to roll his eyes so only the whites were showing and another made a weird shape with his tongue. They all got candy of course. The kids I saw seemed to be having a fabulous time. |
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