Happy Halloween

Stacy wrote...

Your plan for finding a table at Hooters is hilarious!! I love that idea. Way to use your kids for bait! And don't make too much fun of those women with dogs in their purses because I am one of them. I love your blog.

Judi had this to say...

I just love your sense of humor! This was an awesome story! I'm a single parent too and can all to well appreciate the kids chiming in to help out with a potential date once in a while. Keep up the great work! You're one heck of a dad!

Lisa wrote...

funny stuff!! betcha get a lotta dates like this...HEY!! maybe you could help me set up a webpage and i could get some action as well as see all the humor that goes w/ boys and FROM THE MOUTHS OF BABES(and not the hooter ones-lol)

Quasilx wrote...

Yes, your site was great, but what do YOU look like? You must get a ton of women responding, I mean, after all, who could possibly resist your wit and your fatherly charm? It was truly great. And the science behind the hooters visits, that was great. On that note, the hooters gal didn't work out? (you said you got a number....)

RM wrote...

...After reading your site I can say that though I may despise Hooters your stories were very fun, and I enjoyed getting a feel of what a good parent you must be.

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Written by GTK31

Sunday, 02 November 2008 01:44

Happy Halloween from the rDads crew! Although Halloween seems to become more and more passe each and every year, this single dad loves this Pagan based holiday. In the weeks leading up to Halloween my boys and I dig our decorations out of the garage and begin to decorate our humble abode. From the skeleton luminaries to skulls, spiders, giant webs, zombies in the trees, screeching doormats and cauldrons filled with dry ice.

I love Halloween and I have always enjoyed the process by which my boys pick out their costumes. As a parent I have always seen this process as a small peak into the personalities and outright oddities of my own children (ie. the scary clown - see below). When my boys were younger there was the year I had Cookie Monster and Teletubbies and then the year my boys nearly went to blows over who would be the Red Power Ranger. Good times. However, more and more it seems our enthusiasm for Halloween lives a very solitary existence. Is our world really so scary that we cannot even walk our own streets and trust our neighbors enough that we believe they won't poison our children?

As a child my mother and I would labor over my costumes. Back then we didn't buy costumes, my mother made them. I would let my imagination run wild and my mother would break out her sewing machine and get to work. I will never forget the year I was the Incredible Hulk. That green food dye stained my skin for weeks, but I didn't care. I had twenty pounds of candy I was daring to rot my teeth. That costume ruled.

But, nowadays it seems fewer and fewer homes have their lights on and even less kids are running the streets. The last two years I left a bowl of candy outside my door only to come home and find half of that bowl still there. What ever happened to those jerk off High School kids who would steal the entire bowl? What ever happened to Mischief Night? What ever happened to pummeling the neighborhood with eggs and littering trees with toilet paper? My mother would have to drag me in at night and now my older boys call me on my cell asking to come home while my little guy just wants to hit a few houses and then head home to chow down. What is going on these days?!

Regardless, my boys and I had a great Halloween and we hope you did too.

My psycho clown.....