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I grew up in a college town, and one Halloween our doorbell rang and we opened the door expecting to see trickortreater—but what was in front of our open door—was another door! Like, a full-on wooden door, that had a sign that said “Please knock.” So we did, and the door swung open to reveal a bunch of college dudes dressed as really old grandmothers, curlers in their hair, etc, who proceeded to coo over our “costumes” and tell us we were “such cute trick or treaters!” One even pinched my cheek. Then THEY gave US candy, closed their door, picked it up and walked to the next house.

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Posted 4th October 2009 at 7:34 pm

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79 comments

  1. very cool

    tom - 5th October 2009 06:35 - #

  2. awesome!

    asmi - 5th October 2009 07:22 - #

  3. Thats F***ing awesome

    Schwauw - 5th October 2009 09:51 - #

  4. ROFL, now that is *awesome*. I'd have laughed my arse off!

    David - 5th October 2009 12:20 - #

  5. Hahah. How awesome is that?!

    Russell - 5th October 2009 16:52 - #

  6. Okay that's frickin awesome.

    Brad Neuberg - 5th October 2009 21:53 - #

  7. totally stealing this

    Ecks - 5th October 2009 22:03 - #

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    Concerned User - 6th October 2009 00:31 - #

  9. That is all-out bad, cool, wow...I wanna do it!!!! Very clever you college kids....:)

    Nita - 6th October 2009 01:28 - #

  10. I hope that happens to me!

    David - 6th October 2009 02:01 - #

  11. Reminds me of people who give out free hugs. Not really necessary, but really cool when it happens.

    Chris O'Donnell - 6th October 2009 05:12 - #

  12. When I was in high school, one of my friends dressed up as a door-to-door salesman with a brief case full of candy, and tried to sell it to people.

    jeremy - 6th October 2009 05:24 - #

  13. EPIC

    Darksparkle7 - 6th October 2009 11:53 - #

  14. very creative. kudos to them!

    crimz - 6th October 2009 12:24 - #

  15. That is so creative! Nothing like completely turning the tables on someone. Everyone must have just stood there with their mouths hanging open!

    FolkHeart - 6th October 2009 23:58 - #

  16. FTW.

    me - 7th October 2009 04:06 - #

  17. Wow, that is such a cool Trick or Treat. Is it on video any where?

    Adam - 7th October 2009 14:59 - #

  18. HHAHAHAAAAA briliant!

    charlie - 7th October 2009 20:59 - #

  19. that is just tooooo AWESOME XD
    I wanna do it
    I want it to happen XD
    i'd LMAO after i get back up from ROFL and i'd text my friends with LOLz

    dude - 8th October 2009 05:38 - #

  20. That pretty much clears up what I'm doing for Halloween this year

    Jan - 8th October 2009 14:16 - #

  21. Now that is my of Halloween

    Sam - 9th October 2009 04:29 - #

  22. Haha, that's awesome

    Glowing Face Man - 9th October 2009 06:51 - #

  23. That is soooooo cool!

    Martine - 9th October 2009 19:02 - #

  24. me too me too!!!

    damodafoka - 10th October 2009 02:04 - #

  25. awesome!!!

    ally - 10th October 2009 02:07 - #

  26. Very cool, original story, man, Congrats!

    Nick - 10th October 2009 06:59 - #

  27. stumble!!

    adam - 10th October 2009 22:23 - #

  28. I am so doing this when I go to college!

    Andrew - 11th October 2009 00:31 - #

  29. holy crap, those have to be the most awesome people ever!

    mel adamei - 12th October 2009 17:12 - #

  30. saw this in mylifeisaverage.com

    anna - 13th October 2009 09:48 - #

  31. Great!

    Skin Care - 13th October 2009 14:13 - #

  32. Cool!

    KIZILSUNGUR - 17th October 2009 16:25 - #

  33. Just effin awesome!!! now everywhere we will c doors walking around w a bunch of old ladies haha..priceless

    Amy - 22nd October 2009 23:45 - #

  34. Nice! thats a great idea... definitely doing this lol

    Chaos aurion - 25th October 2009 06:33 - #

  35. Very good

    test - 20th December 2009 15:17 - #

  36. LOL

    anonymous - 27th December 2009 17:04 - #

  37. I had a more exciting hallween. Wife was coffee-ing with lady friend in kitchen; I was reading in living room. Every time the doorbell rang, I'd announce, "I'll get it" and hand out the candy as required. Once again it happened. I opened the door BUT there was no kid dressed as Batman. There was.... a FULL-GROWN LADY and as she said "TRICK OR TREAT" she opened the long coat she was wearing to reveal she had NOTHING UNDER IT, not even socks! I was stunned. It was my wife; she had changed, gone out the side door and to the front door. I was so shocked that she got no trick NOR treat!

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