One Halloween

One Halloween night when I was young, we sat down as a family and with one of the gigantic laser disks watch the movie “Halloween”. My mom, dad, my sister pooh and my brother and his friend Mike was all excited about watching the scary movie. Of course I was young and begged to stay up with everyone to watch it. After the movie was over it was probably around 11 O’clock at night and I was scared shitless. If I was more observant you could have probably seen the Oh crap look in my parents face as they realized that the movie was probably not the most family fun movie to watch on Halloween night, But soon my brother would open the door for one of the funniest memories I had growing up.

Dave, being Dave had to spout off “That wasn’t scary”. And mom and dad, being mom and dad cherished the opportunity to knock Dave down a peg. Mom answers back with Dave’s comment “Dave I will give you a dollar for every golf ball you and Mike can bring back from the golf course down the street” Now Dave, being Dave knows he doesn’t want to do this, and his friend Mike is sitting there thinking, NO Dave NO. But not to let a challenge slide passed Dave he accepts. Now its midnight, in the country and Dave and Mike start walking down the driveway toward the road to make the long trek down to the golf course.

As soon as they start walking down the road Dad looks at me and with a look of complete joy, “Craig go get your Halloween mask”. Seeing how excited my parents had become at the thought of teaching David he is not as cool as he thinks he is, I run and grab the Halloween mask. Dad puts on the mask and runs across the yard like I have never seen him run before and we lose site of him as he jumps the fence into the field next door. So as Dave and his friend are walking down the street dad in a mask is running to the site of the ambush.

Dave and Mike slowly walk down the road flipping rocks and are trying to talk about anything other then the fact they both a scared shitless. As they are flipping rocks and spouting words of encouragement to each other they here a noise in the bushes. With a gulp they dismiss it as the wind and continue walking down the road. As they hear a limb break the both stop, thinking Man its nothing just the wind… After a moment of silence Dad see’s the opportunity to strike,. With wearing the mask I gave him, Dad jumps from the bushes with the loudest RAWWWR, We heard it from the porch. You hear Dave scream like a little girl and with the speed of flash Gordon himself was on the porch leaving his friend Mike alone to deal with the threat. Mike turns to run and as he turns he throws the handful of rocks at dad and yells “You cocksucker” and heads for the house. Dave yellow faced and scared beyond belief realizes he had been had when everyone is outside at the front of the house laughing hysterically. But one thing is for sure, that night I didn’t lay in bed scared, rather I laid in bed whispering to Dave, “You screamed like a girl” as I fell asleep.