Halloween is still one of my favorite holidays because it is the one day of the year where everyone else in this country acts (or at least tolerates a bit more) like me.
The best couple of Halloweens I had was my junior and senior years in high school. A friend of mine always made his place up---the black lights, the music, the fake bodies in the tree, the yard, wherever, and an occasional real body made to look like a dead body but would move when someone went by. Anyway, the first year I helped him with this, I got someone (a couple of someones, actually) real good. I was in the garage with a mask and a plastic battle axe waiting for someone to go to the door. We had these two guys walk up. They were just into their early teens, so I had no problem scaring the hell out of them. I walked up behind them, and when the guy on the sidewalk that was with them asked them to turn around, I charged at them. In the time it took me to take 3 steps and go between them and the turn around, they had gone the 20 feet or so to the sidewalk. When we tried to give them the candy, they were stil shaking to the point that the were going to give us candy if we would let them go.
The next year, same basic set-up---me in the monsetr mask with the plastic thing hiding in the garage and my friend just inside the front door. This time we had the fake body in the driveway. I watched a lady and her 3-year-old come up the driveway. As they got to the fake body, the little kid stopped dead in her tracks, stared at the body, turned around and ran screaming at the top of lungs down the driveway. As I was coming out of the garage to apologize, this lady was trying no to laugh at her kid as she was staring at us from the sidewalk. We had to convince the poor kid that it wasn't real and give her a couple of extra pieces of candy.
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