Halloween is one of my favorite days of the year. Not for all the normal reasons, maybe not even for the right reasons. This is my favorite day because I have an excuse to scare small children.
A couple years ago, I scared these 2 kindergarten kids, they dropped their candy on my porch, and ran to their parents at the end of the driveway. The parents thought it was funny. So did I… The kids had to be brought back up my driveway in their parent’s hands, and I had to take my mask off before they would aloow themselves to be dragged back to their candy bags.
Last year I scared some kids mother. The lady was tying her kid’s shoes, and I opened the door so quietly that she never heard it. When she stood up to knock on the door, I screamed at her, and boy did she ever scream back. Then she laughed and told me that I almost had to clean up pee off my porch.
That was worth the 2 hours of 18 year old kids that think they should get candy from me. I think this year I might just throw it at them, or not give it out if they LOOK over 12 years old. Wal-Greens is right down the road. Go spend your allowance on your own damn candy! Mine is for little kids…not young adults. I especially like the ones who don’t even wear a costume. They just show up and ask for candy. Smack!
Sometimes I feel bad if I don’t look outside, before opening the door to scream at children, and scare that crap out of some 2 year old. I feel bad for the parents when the kid is still screaming at the next house, and wants to go home. Oh well…it is Halloween after all. Like I said, “sometimes” I feel bad.
Hopefully, in a couple years, my oldest daughter will get “too old” for tricks-or-treats, and stay home to hand out candy. Then I can do some crazy kid scaring crap. I’m talking “jump off the roof and land next to kids” kinda crazy stuff. First I have to perfect jumping off the roof and not breaking something. That would be fun, though. Even hiding in the bushes and running after kids would be fun. Maybe I’ll just set the candy on the porch and see how many kids can actually go NEAR the candy. I could climb my tower and throw candy-corn at them, but that might be just a bit overboard.
I always hear kids talking on the road about the guy at “that house” scaring them every year. They keep coming back, though…so it must be as fun for them as it is for me. Maybe I should work at a haunted house…now there’s a career. I wonder if they have any openings. I can see myself searching hotjobs.com for a haunted house job. Wanted: People who have control issues, and need to scare people once a year. Click here to apply…LOL! Monster.com would be the more appropriate job search engine, I think.
If I don’t do the haunted house circuit, I will probably become a carnival worker.
My future is SO bright, I gotta wear shades.
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