Pluggers by Rick McKee for October 08, 2023

The Plugger equivalent of Ralph Drabble.

He’s holding a bag of “fun size” candies. There is um, nuffin’ fun about fun size candies!

Caught in the act ! Plus he is thinking I hate when that happens ;-)

I live just outside the city limits, where the houses are all hundreds of feet apart. So no trick or treaters make their rounds in my neighborhood. But that’s no reason not to buy bags of my favorite candies. I’ve got to do my part to support the holiday, right?

For Dad, it was the Christmas candy. Us kids still joke about it.

Well of courses he is prepares for winter ahead.

I’m the one that buys it and puts it away . Always get a big enough bag to have leftovers. Too bad Halloween time is the only time you can buy Candy Corn and miniature Payday candy bars – wife’s allergic to chocolate.

I still can’t resist little Heath bars……..

We use to be “that” house, but the new place is at the end of a cul-de-sac and the driveway is long, so me wife decided to stop trying.

I only had to worry about my Mother and my Halloween candy—she had to ‘inspect it’ to see if there was anything in it that shouldn’t be(?)—it all came from neighbors(with kids) and relatives ! ! ! !

Chocolate for me.

We get stuff that WE like since not too many kids come all the way out to my house, then all the way up my forever long driveway.

They are generally packaged in permeable wrapping so that your appetite can “smell them out” wherever they are.

After my wife bought candy for Halloween, I’d always hide the best stuff at the bottom of the pile (or back of the cupboard, or under my bed) and then be shocked when it was left over after handing out stuff all evening.

Oh, he’s fun size! :)

There once was a Plugger so dandy, his love for candy was handy.

Nuffin, Muffin!

Both my parents had such a sweet tooth; us kids usually had to hide it from them!

Our roles are reversed – I am the one hiding the Halloween candy from the wife since she has NO willpower!

Been married 44 years. We lived 10 years in an apartment in a small apartment complex and since then in a house with houses very close together. We had one pair of trick or treaters back in the apartment and that is all. Figured it was because no one knew us as we had no children and did not trust us. About 10 years ago we had a family with children move in on each side of our house who know us – still no one comes.