The Freaks Come Out Next Month
Somehow I always manage to forget about Halloween until the last minute. Yes, I know it happens on the same day every year. I know, too, that sometime this week VH will begin bringing home bags of candy every time he runs to the store — “just in case we forget” to buy some before the big day, or so he says. (Oddly enough, that candy manages to disappear every week… and I’m not a candy eater.)
Last year, the Big-Eyed Boy wanted to go Trick-or-Treating as Darth Vader. I proudly patted myself on the back for buying his costume the same day our local store put their Halloween stuff on display.
But I forgot completely about getting Halloween costumes for VH and myself. And, as the person who routinely stays home to pass out candy, I do so enjoy the chance to scare all of the neighborhood kiddies without having to worry about anyone calling the police.
I wound up throwing together something at the last minute by gluing a hand of playing cards, an ashtray holding a cigarette butt and some beer caps to a green turtleneck shirt then telling everyone I was a poker table. (Hey, it actually got me quite a few compliments for my creativity!)
This year I’m doing my best to think ahead, but I just can’t seem to come up with any good ideas.
What about you? Who or what will you be on Halloween?
Wifey has absolutely ruled out me dressed up in a ghillie suit, perched on rooftop with sniper rig, lasing all the naughty kids that go by…
I’ve always wanted to dress up as Alex from “A Clockwork Orange.” I’ve had the damnedest time finding the proper codpiece, however…
I know that no one would know who the hell I was, but it would satisfy me, at least.
heh. You’ll like this one. I dressed up last year as the Spam Monster. Pretty simple actually; printed off different color pix of cans of Spam, cut them out of the paper, and taped them to my regular clothes. All the computer geeks loved it.
Also, a friend got several mini-boxes of cereal, put plastic knives into & fake blood on them, and glued them to a hefty bag which went over her shoulders. She was a cereal (serial) killer. Yeah, I know, but it got a lot of laughs.
The dressup is for my girls who cruise the neighborhood for candy. I just wear my everyday raincoat and fedora and sit on my front steps with a whiskey and cigarette (NO, I AM NOT A MUSLIM, KATE) passing out candy. There was one kid last year afraid to approach because he thought I was Freddie from “Nightmare On Elm Street”.
I always preferred the make-up route to some extravagant costume. There are so many kits out there to make you look like flesh is peeling off your face (i.e a zombie). Apply some pale make-up with a touch of gray/green to the rest of your face and hands…wear some old clothes with dirt rubbed into it…
Years ago, when picking up my son from pre-pre-school (AKA day care), a tiny knee-high-to-a-grasshopper classmate of his stood on my feet (literally) and asked “what are you going to be for Halloween?”. I said “I am going to be a Boeing engineer”. She replied “oooh I HATE those”.
Wow, you folks are all so creative! (Well, ok, SAC Brat maybe not so much but that’s funny as hell.)
NK, the raincoat and fedora with the whiskey and cigarette are freaky enough in some neighborhoods.
What’s wrong with the naughty nurse? Looks like a regular nurse uniform to me.
Hurm. Maybe I watch too much anime.