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This Halloween Will Never Be Forgotten! See What Happened. WONov 02 '03 Write an essay on this topic.
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The Bottom Line Read about the climax of the night and why my family will never forget this Halloween.
Last night would go down in our memory as the Halloween that would not be forgotten. All the players were in place, the candy and costumes were being prepared. My kitchen and livingroom and each bedroom looked like the back stage dressing rooms in a theater. The children were readied first and they were in the back yard playing as the main players stated to attack the makeup. Finally, at 6PM everything was in place. The black lights were lit the strobes, the smoke machine were ready, and everyone was hurrying to get in place. Jenn got into her harness and was hoisted up to the tree to hang patiently, waiting for the hoards of kids that were beginning to appear. Brandy my niece was in the casket and with neon, makeup was very convincing as the dead Bride of Frankenstein. Kevin our son-in-law was dressed as a pimp of the seventies and Sherry another of our daughters was dressed as a blonde hooker. What they were was not apparent to the children that were appearing for their candy. Shannon another daughter was dressed as a zombie with a pointed nose that looked real and would pass for any real ugly witch on Halloween. There was a grim reaper in the stand up casket with the doors closed waiting to open and scare the bigger kids. The children started streaming in and were escorted through the path to the candy hut. The smaller ones were given candy and a smile while their parents looked and laughed and were delighted that someone took the time to make it special. The bigger children and the adults were fair play for the antics of the undead. Jenn was able to hang quietly until the right people came along and then she would start in the throes of death from the rope and her feet would start dancing. She managed to scare quite a few adults that thought she was a dummy. Brandy looked like she wasn’t real and with the fog and black lights she startled the kids, as she would rise up. In the mean time the big country bumpkin, my husband was ushering everyone in and out in an orderly fashion, yelling ahead, babies, or fair game. The candy house was foggy and the antics of sherry and Kevin were enough to keep everyone laughing after they were frightened. Truckloads of children were being driven, as we don’t have sidewalks, the parents either walk or bring the kids by in trucks. The parents all had something positive to say and all of our small children were very successful in their bid for candy around the neighborhood. Hubby brought out the camcorder and was taking pictures of everything and everybody, the music blared loudly with the moans and groans and could be heard before you every reached our house. 8PM and the stragglers were still coming. The night was winding down and the players were all tired. Our little ones were on their way back with their buckets loaded and just about all our candy was given out Jenn was still hanging and Brandy was still in her casket everyone was still in place. Then the climax of the night happened. Are you ready for this? I was sitting on the porch watching all the antics and laughing. The baby was beside me in the stroller asleep. I took my cup and was going back in the house for a refill of coffee. I rose out of my chair stepped around the baby stroller and went to open the glass door to the house when it happened. Someone hollered and I looked to see what was going on as I was rounding the baby stroller then I lost my balance, tripped, caught myself, and then lost it again. I fell back against the glass door that promptly gave way as this not very dainty woman fell against it. The next thing I knew I was on my back in the livingroom with everyone running, Kevin and my husband reached me first. I noticed that my husband was white as a sheet and Kevin who is black, looked almost white, both were grabbing for me, but the whole hilarity of the situation hit and I was laughing so hard I could hardly get the words out for them to wait before trying to help me up. My husband grabbed one hand and Kevin the other and pulled when I realized that the whole glass door was shattered. All of our girls were running in to make sure I wasn’t cut to pieces and left poor Jenn facing the other way and dangling with no way down from her hanging cable. As I got up and looked at the glass lying on the floor I was still laughing. Someone got Jenn down and she, Shannon, and Sherry turned, pulled, and probed making sure I was in one piece. My husband glared at me and make sure I was okay, sweeping up the sheet of glass that once was my outer door and mumbling about crazy red heads, that didn’t have sense enough to be scared when they could ‘a killed their self. I am okay I finally told everyone through the laughter and tears at this time realizing how much another glass door would cost. 9PM Halloween was over everyone was in the kitchen again this time looking at the video and eating Chili and cupcakes that had been fixed earlier. As we watched the video everyone was laughing and it was easy to tell when I fell, as the last thing the video showed, before being thrown from my husbands hands, was Brandy sitting up in the casket shouting Oh S***! The tape then goes blank. All they could tease my husband about was not catching the climax of the night and entering it on Americas Funniest Home Videos. Everyone ate and laughed, and then the cleanup started. The night ended with a lot of laughter and good vibes. Post Script Saturday I was laughing all over again today when I found out that Jenn had put the latex hair glue in her hair and couldn’t get it out. She had to go to a wholesale hair place and ask for something that would take the latex out. The woman at the store said, “You didn’t?” Jenn said, “Yes I did.” She left the store with the stuff that was supposed to take the latex out of her hair with the sales clerk still laughing. After struggling in the bathtub and pulling out Latex and hair and going through three combs, she knows now when you go to use hair glue you don't actually glue it in your hair. So ends the Halloween of 2003 I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing This is added to sleeper54's Halloween night write off. I hope you enjoy it. This is the link to his write off with the other entries listed. http://www.epinions.com/content_3550126212 Pictures of the night at the web site below. http://www.disartain.homestead.com/index.html Diane Copyright 2003  |
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