Useless Filler Text #5 - Halloween
I attended a Halloween party last year with about 20 of my closest friends. Everyone was dressed up; the guys in real costumes and girls in skimpy versions of real costumes. One of the people I didn’t know felt the need to NOT dress up.
A bit angered at the thought of someone disgracing Halloween, I went up and asked what he was doing.
(me): Hey Man, What’s going on?
(guy in plain clothes): Hey Dude. I’m To-
(me): Listen, didn’t you get the memo that this is a costume only party?
(guy in plain clothes): Listen, I won’t be any trouble man. I didn’t want to buy a costume, Chris said it would be ok, -
(me): No. No. When kids show up at the door, what are they going to think when a layman answers the door?
(guy in plain clothes): Chris said that kids don’t even trick or treat near-
(me): Nevermind what Chris said. You think I like wearing this costume?
(guy in plain clothes): You have a sheet on your head with two holes.
(me): I’m a ghost. It’s not easy to cut perfectly round circles for the eyes. It looks easy but its not.
(guy in plain clothes): They’re not perfectly round..
(me): I’d like to be wearing what you’re wearing but we all make sacrifices on Halloween.
(guy in plain clothes): What are you hassling me for? That girl is in plain clothes [points to girl]
(me): Never mind her.
It went on like this for another minute and a half.
After the minute and a half was up, I stopped being rude and actually got to know him. He works in marketing and is actually kind of successful. He gets tickets to all of these cool events and has what his financial planner calls a “401 kay.”
Finances aside, we are basically best friends now. In fact, I have to call him back because we are going out for pancakes.
The moral of my story is that Halloween is an event where you can get candy and meet your future best friend.
