And the pumpkins aren't even anything great. They are small and lopsided. And if you carve one and put it on the porch, the squirrels will eat it and make a huge mess.

Cheer up. It's corduroy and flannel season.

back in my day, pumpkins came right out of the ground.  if you didn't grow your own, you could go to a farm and pick one up for pennies.  didn't need hayrack rides or haunted houses or any of that.  a pumpkin was just a pumpkin.  it was a simpler time.

^yup.  Everything has become so commercialized.  Kids are over stimulated.  Put me Outside with a stick and I was a happy kid...my kids need a million electronic devices and constant attractions to stay entertained....I used to jump on my mattress for fun...my kids go to a trampoline park....end of old guy rant.

i go to drumpf's pumpkin patch, and steal mine.

if drumpf eats a pumpkin, is that cannibalism?

Where does this charging for admission to a pumpkin farm happen?  I've never heard of that - guess it hasn't made its way to New England yet.  I'm not sure it can make it here - pumpkins aren't exactly rare, I've got them growing in my driveway and I didn't even plant any.

I had to grow my own pumpkins as a kid.

Trump eats people

admission? crazy.  i got a couple big pumpkins from costco, $5

Here's one example... 

http://andersonfarms.com/pricing/

after my rant... my wife found a mom and pop that's a bit more humble. I think we'll give them a try. 

^ Thanks for the link, Wurdan.  I can't decide between Terror in the Corn or the Zombie Paintball Hunt. 

I'll probably go with the Zombie Paintball.  I can eat a can of corn at home and experience the terror privately the next morning.