Rachael Sanders - To avoid the overdone sexy-fill-in-the-blank costume this year, I decided that it would be funny if my boyfriend and I dressed as Peter and Lois Griffin from “Family Guy”. This idea seemed simple enough: all I had to buy was an orange wig and purple shoes. He just wore green pants, stuffed a pillow down the front of a Men’s 4X button-down, put on round glasses, and drew on Peter’s trademark chin with eyeliner. I thought we would be recognizable. Not so. All night long, people had no idea what I was, and kept asking him if he was dressed as a fat Harry Potter.
Daniel Gross - This Halloween, there was a toss-up between costume decisions. My girlfriend and I attended a couple of parties this year as a pirate and pirate wench. We each wore the traditional pirate garb in pretty legitimate looking costumes. To my eyes, my girlfriend takes the cake in beauty both inside and out, so it was hard to imagine her as a slightly slutty, slightly dirty pirate wench, although it was still a charming and convincing outfit. But changing up the norm is what makes Halloween so great, right? Anyway, the catch to the outfits was that a day before the holiday weekend started, I get a text message from her while working in the office, saying, “We should totally go as Calvin and Hobbes!” Oh, perfect timing! Tons of great costume ideas came to mind and yet no time to change ideas. Oh well, there’s always next year.
Ashley Rabe - After years of handing out candy, I never have gotten such a rude and bad mannered response from children. What are you parents doing? Holding a bowl filled with Snickers, Almond Joy, Hershey’s, Reese’s and M&M’s there was an overwhelming response from the trick or treaters. Upon their arrival I would say, “Happy Halloween, go ahead and take one.” One little Army recruit and his sister Dorothy proceeded to look at me, look at my candy, and then take a handful and run. But that was only the first of many occurrences. The second was when a red Teletubbie stole my bowl of candy. He picked it up from my hand and walked away. Serously?! (Don’t worry I got it back.) An beyond that, my lovely Steelers carved pumpkin caused quite a stir, ranging from, “I don’t want your candy!” from a mafia man and a “We’ll take care of them later,” shout from a group of football players. All I have to say is, parents, control your little hooligans and go Steelers!
Colin Stevens - What would inspire people to cover themselves in tin foil and wait for over 30 minutes in line at a fast food restaurant? A free Burrito of course. I was lucky enough to spend six hours on Saturday cooking chicken, frying chips and rolling fatties for these maniacal Chipotle fans who came in to get their annual Boo-rrito, but my experience might not have been as exciting as theirs. I started off my shift by slicing a chunk of my thumb off while opening a bag of beans, then spending a good 30 minutes trying to suppress the blood. Once we figured that out, it was back to the grill and the line for the rest of my shift. There were several creative foil costumes, including grills, masks and glasses, but the best were the people wrapped head to foot in foil. That’s dedication right there.
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Published: Sunday, November 1, 2009
Updated: Sunday, November 1, 2009
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