Today is Halloween, a day like no other. Kids and adults dress up in outfits that transform them into witches, ghosts, vampires, princesses, kings, devils, disney characters and just about anything that one can imagine (has anyone dressed up as a blog yet?) Today is a day that we use to escape reality, venture into fantasy and hope against all hope that our kids will come home with the "good" candy.
Sometimes we need a break from the reality of today, and well, damn it I am using my one diary entry today to offer up some funny Halloween stories, along with a few memories of Halloweens from the past.
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A few years back my husband and I were planning on going to a Halloween party. First of all my husband has never dressed up for Halloween, ever, while I have dressed up almost every year. To make a long story short I had an assortment of things that I could wear, and he had nothing. So we went about trying to create an outfit for him. Nothing seemed to work until I got the bright idea that he could dress up like a woman.
So, we get out a wig, find a dress for him to wear, get him a pair of heels that fit, and proceed to put the outfit together. While my husband is a handsome man, he was, without doubt, one very ugly woman. Makeup did not help, the dress made it worse and the heels just made him a very tall, ugly woman in an ill fitting dress.
As he was "outfitted" we decided to ask the kids what they thought. Our daughter was about 14 at the time, she came into the bedroom and laughed so hard she had to go to the bathroom. Ok, we figured that maybe the outfit would work. Then we called our son in, who was about 10 at the time. He came into the bedroom and saw his father dressed as a woman. I don't think I will ever forget the shock on his face.
The poor kid was beyond himself and, almost in tears, begged his father to not only NOT be a woman for Halloween, made his Dad PROMISE he would NEVER, EVER wear a dress or anything close to a dress again. To this day our son checks my husbands side of the closet for any "female" looking things (I do tend to creep into my husband's very small part of the closet) and he takes anything he thinks is mine OUT of my husbands side and puts it on my side.
We ended up going to the party dressed in our pj's. That worked until we had to run to the store to get a last minute item to take with us to the party. Of course we made my husband go into the store wearing his polar bear pj's, needless to say those pj's were never worn again.
Many, many years ago in San Francisco my littler brother(who was about 5 at the time) woke up the day after Halloween and decided that he would revisit some of the houses he had gone to the night before. His hope was that there might be some "left overs" that would be given to him. The first house he went to had a very nice older lady who just happened to have some "left overs" which she gave him. Each day on his way to the park my brother would stop by her house and she would always have a "treat" for him.
One day she heard the knock on her door and she yelled to her son to get a treat for my brother. Her son was a professional basketball player, a very, very tall man who my little brother had not yet met. My brother stood at the door, waiting for his "lady" friend to open the door and hand him his treat, instead the door opens and he finds himself looking at someone's knees. Needless to say, he was a bit taken back, dropped his treat and ran back home to my mom's house. The lady called my mom to make sure my brother was ok, and to this day we kid my brother about being afraid of "heights."
Ok, enough of my blabber, do you have a funny Halloween story to share?