Skip to Content
Register · Login
About Theme

A Letterboxing Community

Atlas Quest
Search Edit Search

Read Thread: GRRR

Re: GRRR
Board: Atlas Quest Announcements
Reply to: #10159 by Nurse Wanderseek
Nov 1, 2005 9:06am
Thread (disabled) Board
i just have mean parents... they would'nt let me go trick or treating or anything!! i was so mad.. it wa slike taking away my only funnes left before i have to grow up lol..
Re: GRRR
Board: Atlas Quest Announcements
Reply to: #10168 by The Wolf Family
Nov 1, 2005 9:50am
Thread (disabled) Board
no see you at least have a reason why he could'nt go out... I however could not go out because my mother is so worried that the minute i leave my house, that i will get stolen and all these bad things: in which case i understand her fear... but im a lot older now, and she at least needs to lighten up a little bit. We live in a nice neighborhood where nothing has happened in a long time (in which case i know it could at any time)but in a few years, she will not be able to restrict me from going places, and thats going to kill her to see me grow up.
Re: GRRR
Board: Atlas Quest Announcements
Reply to: #10168 by The Wolf Family
Nov 1, 2005 11:47am
Thread (disabled) Board
ROFL ... I am hysterically laughing! (nodding head) I totally agree on the creative punishments part!! When our kids refused to clean there room I'd give them one warning, if they did not do it with in twenty four hours I did it! And everything they loved either go thrown out or placed in the trunk of my car. They would have to earn each item back one at a time. And they could only earn one back a day! Usually they did extra chores. Yes I said extra, they had chores to do every Saturday and if those were not done they lost the use of the pool! (We use to lived in South Florida) Heck, once they were fighting over the TV so they lost that for the whole summer! Man were they mad! But, if you ask them now, they will tell you it was the best summer they have ever had because they bonded and really used their imagination. It may sound harsh but we have great kids. And we always get complements on their behavior and manners.

CR
Re: GRRR
Board: Atlas Quest Announcements
Reply to: #10169 by PumpkinQueen
Nov 1, 2005 12:23pm
Thread (disabled) Board
Oh yeah...I'm so sorry, by the way....we never ended up coming by your place last night...we spent so long getting ready and so long going through all this drama between some people (you can guess who...and if you can't, then I'll just tell you later)...

But, i've got plenty of pictures of both of my costumes, so i'll show them to you later.

Sorry, hun...

-CQ
Re: GRRR
Board: Atlas Quest Announcements
Reply to: #10167 by PumpkinQueen
Nov 1, 2005 4:46pm
Thread (disabled) Board
Quote i just have mean parents... they would'nt let me go trick or treating or anything!! i was so mad.. it wa slike taking away my only funnes left before i have to grow up lol..


Wait a minute, high school girl! I saw you last week and you look a little tall to be mooching candy! :-) Maybe your parents didn't want to deal with the calls when neighbors complained about "you young ruffians that can afford you own candy".

Actually, I only had my neighbor's little 8 year old from up the street and a group of 6 middle schoolers come, so thank goodness for big kids or we'dve been stuck with a ton of Weight Watchers' no-no's!

The S & H
Re: GRRR
Board: Atlas Quest Announcements
Reply to: #10184 by Sprite and Highlander
Nov 1, 2005 4:55pm
Thread (disabled) Board
Quote I saw you last week and you look a little tall to be mooching candy! :-)


You are NEVER too old to go trick or treating! *nodding*

Quote so thank goodness for big kids or we'dve been stuck with a ton of Weight Watchers' no-no's!


Wouldn't it be funny if someone ended up having TONS of excess candy at the end of the night, and rather than giving or throwing it away, tried to hawk it on eBay. "Please! Bid on this candy! It's left over from Halloween when not enough kids came knocking on my door. I'm on a diet and MUST GET RID OF IT IMMEDIDATELY!!!!"

I think that would be funny. *more nodding* =)

-- Ryan
Re: GRRR
Board: Atlas Quest Announcements
Reply to: #10186 by Green Tortuga
Nov 1, 2005 5:29pm
Thread (disabled) Board
Quote "Please! Bid on this candy! It's left over from Halloween when not enough kids came knocking on my door. I'm on a diet and MUST GET RID OF IT IMMEDIDATELY!!!!"


I don't know what's more sad...the idea of that being posted up on eBay for sale, or the fact that my dad (eBay freak and total chocoholic) would buy it.

sigh....

but, agreed, you're never too old to go trick or treating....but, the older you look, the better your costume had better be!!!

-Celtic Quinn
Re: GRRR
Board: Atlas Quest Announcements
Reply to: #10175 by Cherokee Rose
Nov 2, 2005 4:20am
Thread (disabled) Board
ok... i guess im loseing this one... Grr for you parents people... lol jk

:Shamefully Admits defeat:
Re: GRRR
Board: Atlas Quest Announcements
Reply to: #10176 by Celtic Quinn
Nov 2, 2005 4:23am
Thread (disabled) Board
its ok.. i only sat outside waiting for you gies until ten at night....

Grrr...watever.. life is to short, i do not expect you gies to keep me company whenever my mom becomes miss evilness all the time!...
*poke*

---Just most of the time ;)
Re: GRRR
Board: Atlas Quest Announcements
Reply to: #10184 by Sprite and Highlander
Nov 2, 2005 4:24am
Thread (disabled) Board
i can crouch!!!
Re: GRRR
Board: Atlas Quest Announcements
Reply to: #10190 by Celtic Quinn
Nov 2, 2005 4:25am
Thread (disabled) Board
Tell my mother that....



ughh.... my life blows
Re: GRRR
Board: Atlas Quest Announcements
Reply to: #10204 by PumpkinQueen
Nov 2, 2005 7:06am
Thread (disabled) Board
My son was grounded from Trick-or-Treating for similar reasons, Wolf Mama!--Being defiant gets you nowhere in my house. Younger son couldn't believe he was sitting on the couch answering the door... hehehehe! That'll teach him.

I did, however, let him go to a pre-TOT pizza dinner with his friends next door. My goal wasn't to isolate him from his friends, but to restrict his ability to collect sweets. As soon as they took off to TOT he had to come home.

Older son is 14 and still loves to go out with his friends. The rule in this neighborhood is you get candy if you have on a reasonable costume, no matter your age. We got a few groups of high-school kids, but they were dressed up and very polite. Fine with me!

Our neighborhood is the magnet for the surrounding area. We are a city neighborhood with actual cul-de-sacs so it's very safe. Our 80+ houses go all out, with one even doing a very professional "Haunted Mill House" attraction in their home and yard going all the way under a creepy street culvert and into the adjacent field. Amazing special effects and actors doing monsters, etc!
I bought 600 pieces of candy and ran out in 2 hours! Sigh... Sorry PumpkinQ.
Re: GRRR
Board: Atlas Quest Announcements
Reply to: #10213 by quill
Nov 2, 2005 7:13am
Thread (disabled) Board
Oh yeha, I definately think it's fine to go trick or treating no matter how old you are, but you HAVE to have a decent costume...I mean, if you're 20 and running around wearing a mask that you bought at Party City or Spencer's, and that's it, i don't think you deserve candy.
But if you've gone to the trouble of making a full costume, makeup, and the whole shebang, heck yes, have some candy. I don't remember any rules saying that you had to stop trick or treating at some age...
Now, i'm 18, and I just went trick or treating with some of my friends. It was great, and to be honest, I enjoyed the actual walking around and trick or treating, and the costumes, and the reactions from people about the costumes FAR more than the candy we got in the process.

The candy just makes it all totally cool.

-CQ
Re: GRRR
Board: Atlas Quest Announcements
Reply to: #10214 by Celtic Quinn
Nov 2, 2005 7:25am
Thread (disabled) Board
Quote Now, i'm 18,


OK...now that just blew my pea brain!
Not only do we need some way to tell if a person is a male or female, we need an age indicator!
Not having gone to an event and living all the way out in OHIO, I have no idea who people really are. I always pictured Celtic Quinn as a 40ish dad kind of guy!
Re: GRRR
Board: Atlas Quest Announcements
Reply to: #10216 by Mn8X
Nov 2, 2005 9:39am
Thread (disabled) Board
hahahahahahahah... omg

you have no idea how much that just cracked me up...

until he protests, im going to tell you to just go with that.. haha lol
Re: GRRR
Board: Atlas Quest Announcements
Reply to: #10214 by Celtic Quinn
Nov 2, 2005 9:40am
Thread (disabled) Board
yea.. and *cough* forgot to visit me *cough*
Re: GRRR
Board: Atlas Quest Announcements
Reply to: #10216 by Mn8X
Nov 2, 2005 9:43am
Thread (disabled) Board
Woah...40ish? Oh god, i sound that old?

No no no...sorry to disappoint, but no, I turned 18 just a few months ago. My two siblings (both younger) as well as my parents (definately older-lol) all box too, although i am definately the most enthusiastic about it all.

I have managed to pull a good sized group of my friends into it, though...they make it fun, and give us one more option when we're bored and getting together.

Sigh...great, now i'm middle-aged.
And it doesn't help that when I was trick or treating two nights ago (as a girl-don't ask, long story), one of my friends remarked that I looked like the mother of the group....

:(

-CQ (who is definately NOT 40ish...)
Re: GRRR
Board: Atlas Quest Announcements
Reply to: #10231 by Celtic Quinn
Nov 2, 2005 9:46am
Thread (disabled) Board
hmmm..... 40ish.....
does.nt sound as appealing at the Ac...lol ;)

--pq
Re: GRRR
Board: Atlas Quest Announcements
Reply to: #10213 by quill
Nov 2, 2005 9:55am
Thread (disabled) Board
We have "kids" of just about all ages here--and tons of them! Our first year in this town, we got so low on candy that we had to make an emergency run to the store (and even had to resort to "re-gifting" a little from the baby's bag). Our town has 80 miles of golf cart paths, and most people drive their carts to go trick-or-treating, so lots more ground is covered that way! It's an unusual scene...

I actually enjoy the older kids because they really seem to get into it, and they also seem to have have a sheepish appreciation for the fact that their time is running out!

Booknut
Re: GRRR
Board: Atlas Quest Announcements
Reply to: #10236 by Booknut
Nov 2, 2005 9:56am
Thread (disabled) Board
exactly and because of my mother... i could'nt get all into it..

humph :(

-pq
Re: GRRR
Board: Atlas Quest Announcements
Reply to: #10216 by Mn8X
Nov 2, 2005 10:52am
Thread (disabled) Board
Quote I always pictured Celtic Quinn as a 40ish dad kind of guy!


Well, if Celtic Quinn were a dad, that would likely get him grounded from trick-or-treating too! =)

-- Ryan
Re: GRRR
Board: Atlas Quest Announcements
Reply to: #10216 by Mn8X
Nov 2, 2005 10:55am
Thread (disabled) Board
Hey, where in Ohio? We're in the Cincinnati area.

Cheryl
Team Mad Dawg
Re: GRRR
Board: Atlas Quest Announcements
Reply to: #10240 by Ravenontheroad
Nov 2, 2005 11:25am
Thread (disabled) Board
We're in the Columbus area.
And to my knowledge, with the exception of Rosmarinus, we're just about it in this area.
We have a lot of boxes planted in the area, but most are by repeat passing-through planters. I wish there were more 'boxers in the area.
I'd love to have an event, but I've never even been to one, so I would have no idea what to do. But...if anyone wants to bring an event (complete with people) here, I'd be the first to sign up.