I feel like a bit of an ass
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whogeekSo, the East Side of campus does this "Trick-Or-Treat for Tots" thing a few days before the actual day of halloween, and so people in the dorms can either volunteer to pass out candy from their rooms, guide groups of kids around the dorms, or supervise an activity down in the main lobby of the dorm. I volunteered to pass out candy.
Well, I had my costume ready, just putting some last touches to it and I was ready to go. I was a werewolf, and I did pretty well with the makeup and the outfit- a pair of my dad's old work pants with a bunch of holes and an old button-down he never wears, and I even had a tail to round the whole thing out. Well, aparently, I was really terrifying to some of the kids, and I suspect it was the teeth. The little makeup kit I got came with these fake teeth: two big canines, and four smaller, pointy teeth between them. And the whole thing is kinda yellowish, with brown gums, and in general fairly creepy. So, whenever I opened my mouth, and if the really little kids saw the teeth, it really freaked them out. There was one little girl, in a lamb costume, and I absolutely terrified her. She didn't even want to reach into the bowl for a piece of candy, and she even started crying. I felt terrible! I mean, this adorable little girl was scarred for life because I was so scary!
And I ran out of candy when the whole thing was only about half over, So I went down to the laundry room and retreived my dry clothes. At which point, I came up with a scientific name for the laundry-doing werewolf: versipella domestica, the domestic werewolf. Felt very geeky for thinking that, and so I didn't share with anyone, even though I wanted to.
Although, in general, it was a very good time. I had fun. Although, I do not have any candy for myself.
Well, I had my costume ready, just putting some last touches to it and I was ready to go. I was a werewolf, and I did pretty well with the makeup and the outfit- a pair of my dad's old work pants with a bunch of holes and an old button-down he never wears, and I even had a tail to round the whole thing out. Well, aparently, I was really terrifying to some of the kids, and I suspect it was the teeth. The little makeup kit I got came with these fake teeth: two big canines, and four smaller, pointy teeth between them. And the whole thing is kinda yellowish, with brown gums, and in general fairly creepy. So, whenever I opened my mouth, and if the really little kids saw the teeth, it really freaked them out. There was one little girl, in a lamb costume, and I absolutely terrified her. She didn't even want to reach into the bowl for a piece of candy, and she even started crying. I felt terrible! I mean, this adorable little girl was scarred for life because I was so scary!
And I ran out of candy when the whole thing was only about half over, So I went down to the laundry room and retreived my dry clothes. At which point, I came up with a scientific name for the laundry-doing werewolf: versipella domestica, the domestic werewolf. Felt very geeky for thinking that, and so I didn't share with anyone, even though I wanted to.
Although, in general, it was a very good time. I had fun. Although, I do not have any candy for myself.
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Date: Nov. 5th, 2009 08:59 am (UTC)Werewolf costume sounds awesome, and if they didn't want to be scarred for life, then they shouldn't have gone to a college campus. Lord knows what evil pranks the frat boys pulled on them.
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Date: Nov. 5th, 2009 09:22 am (UTC)My costume was awesome. Some of the kids on my floor flipped out once I had the makeup on and put the teeth in, which was totally worth it. And I scared the RD. Which was awesome.
Zebra is artsy and, sometimes, cutsy. Tiger is absolutely amazingly sexy.
I woudn't know what kind of pranks the frat boys pulled, because I spent halloween day on a bus with a bunch of band kids, going to a football game and a performance after that. 24 hours of interrupted sleep on a bus. Bleah.