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It's not Halloween until someone scares the sh*t out of you
It's two days before Halloween, but we haven't done any decorating yet. Can't think why not. Last year, we put up scads of cobwebs and then installed a mini-stereo in the bushes to play sound effects. The whole thing made us fairly popular except with the toddlers in their fruit and flower costumes.
So, we have a decision ahead of us, and there's not much time. Do we do no decorating ... put up a few things in the spirit of the season ... or go all out and risk traumatizing the little sunflowers and pumpkins?
Tonight we visited a haunted house in town, and my voice hurts from all the screaming. It's run by a nonprofit, and gets bigger and more elaborate every year. They add more features all the time. Now we have a train ride and some carnival attractions. They hired actors in addition to our stalwart high school-aged volunteers. And there were three separate attractions - a haunted corn "maize," an old west saloon, and a sort of creepy, zombie circus side show.
And my gosh, they were scary. It's all the characters, see. So many of them! Some run up and shriek at you; others just sit in a corner and gibber. And then there are the quiet ones who sidle up behind you, and what with the noise and fog, you don't know they're there until they're literally breathing down your neck. By the last house, my synapses were misfiring and I was no longer in control of my major muscle groups.
And that's when the clowns came.
So, we have a decision ahead of us, and there's not much time. Do we do no decorating ... put up a few things in the spirit of the season ... or go all out and risk traumatizing the little sunflowers and pumpkins?
Tonight we visited a haunted house in town, and my voice hurts from all the screaming. It's run by a nonprofit, and gets bigger and more elaborate every year. They add more features all the time. Now we have a train ride and some carnival attractions. They hired actors in addition to our stalwart high school-aged volunteers. And there were three separate attractions - a haunted corn "maize," an old west saloon, and a sort of creepy, zombie circus side show.
And my gosh, they were scary. It's all the characters, see. So many of them! Some run up and shriek at you; others just sit in a corner and gibber. And then there are the quiet ones who sidle up behind you, and what with the noise and fog, you don't know they're there until they're literally breathing down your neck. By the last house, my synapses were misfiring and I was no longer in control of my major muscle groups.
And that's when the clowns came.
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I am doing light decorating.
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TAKE AWAY OF TERROR
My last chance, as I'm doing the windows in a few weeks. I think it will go down well.
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Well Mother Nature treated us here in the Northeast to an unseasonal trick yesterday in the form of a major winter storm, so this morning people who had put up outdoor Halloween decorations are finding them buried in snow.
But since it is the sloppy, heart-attack-inducing variety which clumps together very well, others are taking advantage to create vampire snowmen in their yards... :-P
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