Several years ago I decided to get with the Halloween spirit, but I was stuck answering the door. I bought a rubber mask that was different, it just looked like a creapy old man with white hair. It had toned down features giving it a realistic look while being extremely creapy. I wore a black turtle neck shirt, held my arm and hand in a fixed-bent and contracted posture while talking in a slow creapy voice. I would say,"would you children like some candy" in a slow and old voice. The house was black with justy a small lamp to one side to illuminate my profile from one side. I had some kids run away from the house before they got their candy. After realizing my appearance was too scary for the little kids, I surveyed my trick-or-treaters before opening the door. If they were little, I left the mask off and acted normal, that might have been scary enough! Over the next few months talking with my neighbors I learned how effective my mask and act had been. The lady next door, accompaning her little son, was so freightened she almost bolted from my front door with her little boy. Another neighbor told me her little son now points to my house when they drive by and calls it the "haunted house."
My goal was not to traumatize the kids and ruin Halloween for them, so if I see a frozen face with the mouth open, I remove the mask and say "Happy Halloween"! Tonight, after the little kids have gone with their parents and before the next wave of young adolescents arrive; I will make the transformation. Would anyone like some candy?
