I’ll admit it – I scare easily. About the spookiest thing I can handle on a weekly basis is my alarm waking me up on Monday morning. Halloween’s fine by me when it’s not too terrifying – it’s hard to hate a holiday that revolves around buckets of candy and adorable costumed kids coming to your door.
My son, on the other hand, always wishes we did more to scare the locals. There are some well-decorated houses on my block for sure, but we’ve never been the family that goes all out on Halloween decorations. Last year, he took matters into his own hands and sat out on the porch wearing a pumpkin head. He almost looked like one of those stuffed scarecrows – until an unsuspecting kid reached his hand into the candy bowl and Denver came to life, scaring the lights out of that little tyke!
After the success of last year’s fright night, he’s insistent we get started on decorating for Halloween. Me, I’m hesitant. Not only do I scare easily when it comes to ghosts and goblins, I don’t exactly like having the cops around, either! In Detroit, passers-by kept stopping to call the police – some even tried performing CPR – on this Halloween dummy:
That one doesn’t look too real to me, but it’s nice to know that the people of Detroit were concerned with the dummy’s well-being.
However, this Ohio family’s decor is not only realistic, it’s pretty terrifying, especially considering that they live next to an elementary school. No wonder the community wanted them to take it all down! That’s definitely well past my threshold. I’d probably start taking a different way to work if I had to drive past a scene like that! I don’t even recommend clicking the link if you’re squeamish.
If my son’s so insistent on Halloween decorations, I feel like I ought to encourage him somehow. And I’ve got just the idea – I’m not touching a duster or a broom for the rest of the month….
Now that’s the kind of decorating I can get into!
Happy Monday,
Mary
