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Posted: 10/20/04 at 11:41am
Our office is doing a 'worst Halloween costume' ever contest so I thought I'd share my completely true entry.
The scars run deep ...
"I was in the third grade and was getting ready for my Cub Scout Halloween Party. When I was in grade school, EVERYONE was a cub scout, even the 5th graders who, as we all know, can be a tough crowd to impress. Now if you would have seen my bedroom as a boy you’d have noted a common theme: Spider-Man. I had Spider-Man wallpaper, bed sheets and underoos. I even had a Spider-Man ski mask that, even though it made it about 200 degrees on my face, I wore most days while running about the neighborhood, saving everyone from evil. So logic would state that going into my big Cub Scout Halloween Party that I MIGHT have wanted to go as Spider-Man. I mean, one kid had a mask that lit up for Pete’s sake, this was a tough crowd but I figured Spider-Man would put me over the top.
Alas, my mother had other ideas. My mother, font of wisdom and help that she was, decided I HAD to go to my Halloween party as … wait for it … Raggedy Andy. Why go as a notoriously cool super hero when I could instead go as a lame little girls' circus clown? Not only did the guy with the light-up costume win best costume, I looked like a complete dork the entire night. I even bobbed for apples hoping to wipe the lame Raggedy Andy makeup off my face.
It didn’t work."
The scars run deep ...
"I was in the third grade and was getting ready for my Cub Scout Halloween Party. When I was in grade school, EVERYONE was a cub scout, even the 5th graders who, as we all know, can be a tough crowd to impress. Now if you would have seen my bedroom as a boy you’d have noted a common theme: Spider-Man. I had Spider-Man wallpaper, bed sheets and underoos. I even had a Spider-Man ski mask that, even though it made it about 200 degrees on my face, I wore most days while running about the neighborhood, saving everyone from evil. So logic would state that going into my big Cub Scout Halloween Party that I MIGHT have wanted to go as Spider-Man. I mean, one kid had a mask that lit up for Pete’s sake, this was a tough crowd but I figured Spider-Man would put me over the top.
Alas, my mother had other ideas. My mother, font of wisdom and help that she was, decided I HAD to go to my Halloween party as … wait for it … Raggedy Andy. Why go as a notoriously cool super hero when I could instead go as a lame little girls' circus clown? Not only did the guy with the light-up costume win best costume, I looked like a complete dork the entire night. I even bobbed for apples hoping to wipe the lame Raggedy Andy makeup off my face.
It didn’t work."
Updated On: 10/20/04 at 11:41 AM
