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Pink Elephant in the Room · Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 162 Location: in the corner

Just go with me on this one...

I was six years old.

We had a side yard full of desert flora. I went skating early in the day. I was very good for a six-year-old. Almost too good, and I knew it. So I decided to throw in some new tricks. There was a rock on the sidewalk... I fell in the cacti and needles punctured the entire posterior part of my body. A gazillion of those things were in me and had to be removed by the doctor...

When my Dad and I came home from the doctor's, my Grandfather and my Mom were digging up all the cacti in the side yard. Now it was nothing but mud. Of course, I couldn't sit nor lay on my back side. My plans to go trick or treating with my girl friend down the street were nixed.

I had a "better" idea! I took out my blue wagon and grabbed the wax paper from my Mom's cabinet. I found the wash bucket and my sand pail for the beach. Putting all of those things together, I went over to the side yard and began to make "mud cookies" to hand out that night. I must have made four or five dozen that after noon, wrapping each one of those specially made goody in wax paper.

That night, as I lay on my tummy with my Dad sitting on a chair next to me, we handed out candy to all of the neighbor kids. I told my Dad that I made special cookies for my friends, too. He had no idea what I had in my little blue wagon. I dropped the dried "cookies" in each of my friends' bags and wished them all a Happy Halloween!

reformed C-burger · Joined: 05 Jun 2008 Posts: 7

I think my favorite Halloween memories usually involve the Old Jail on King St in Cburg. They used to do a Haunted jail & dungeon every year, a barn too. One year, I guess I was around 20 & the theater group ran part of the dungeon that year, I had a bad cold & took some stuff to stop the dripping & sneezing. The only thing I could really do, was to sit on this high wall thing in a narrow, short, dark hallway where people full of adrenalin from previous frights, hesitation & anticipation of what was next would have to walk through. I wore a mask that completely covered my head & a black choir robe. I just slouched up there, cross legged under the robe, like I was dummy, beside some kind of straw & bloody things, I don't remember. What I do remember was getting to scare the bejesus out of people. Sitting there very still with the strobes & black lights I would wait for the first few people of a group to pass, they would look up 'oh what's that, it's only some lame decoration!'. I'd look for one of the folks in the middle of the group & wait for them to look up all calm & then fast as lightening, I'd lunge at them roaring for all I was worth!! Oh my god! the looks of fear on their faces was priceless! I would laugh then as the girls jumped a foot in the air & sideways, screaming & pushing to get out of the hall, even the boys would yell & jump. I was making grown men shriek like girls simply by allowing them to believe I was a dummy & jumping at them! Sometimes I would simply move an arm as someone was watching. The people came through in groups of 6-8 & I could only really scare every other group. Ah, what great fun those nights were....

cookieclaygirl · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 2289 Location: shippensburg

oh the old jail.

my mom and aunt took me and my cousin when we were very little (3 if i recall was how old i was..my cousin 5)....yeah. let's just say i didn't care for it

my mom had to tell the ppl...please don't touch or do anything to her she's not digging it

lol

poor them! having to put up w/me (oh, wait, they still are LOL)

sassy moose · Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 289 Location: Virginia

cookieclaygirl · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 2289 Location: shippensburg

hahaha!

i'd have punched too probably

tho...that was a reallllllly good scary line LOL!!!!!