My Halloween decorations one year were a last minute thing executed in about an hour. Large bowls of candy, plastic jack’o lanterns lined up along the sidewalk with lights in them, black light bulb replacing the porch light, about 20 candles inside arranged on the counter, windows up with speakers in them playing screams and howls, and the piece de’ resisatnce, my costume: a 4x US army poncho minus the winter lining. Scenario: lights out, candles flickering, sounds playing, doorbell rings, I bend over at the waist and pull the poncho way over my head, open the door, and then stand up. I had one very young little girl refused to come to the door, even with her Mom. Even had a friend of the wife’s come to the door and when I went to stand up, she screamed and her teen-aged sons ran!
My Halloween decorations one year were a last minute thing executed in about an hour. Large bowls of candy, plastic jack’o lanterns lined up along the sidewalk with lights in them, black light bulb replacing the porch light, about 20 candles inside arranged on the counter, windows up with speakers in them playing screams and howls, and the piece de’ resisatnce, my costume: a 4x US army poncho minus the winter lining. Scenario: lights out, candles flickering, sounds playing, doorbell rings, I bend over at the waist and pull the poncho way over my head, open the door, and then stand up. I had one very young little girl refused to come to the door, even with her Mom. Even had a friend of the wife’s come to the door and when I went to stand up, she screamed and her teen-aged sons ran!