Thursday, September 11, 2008

What a Way to Start the Day

Many of you already know that I’ve been in the throws of moving and selling my house. Everything I own had to be boxed, labeled and moved in mass, via Uhaul. The last couple months I’ve used the trunk of my car as a temporary storage for just about everything. Really early this morning, I went out to see if I could empty some of the junk out of my trunk and tried to pull out an old Halloween costume. It had a staff with skulls and batwings decorating it. It looked like something a death lord might weld. As I was pulling it out of the pile at the bottom of my trunk, the button on the front of it was accidentally pushed and the whole thing came to life, with whirring motors and flashing, spinning lights. It was still pretty dark out at the time so the whole show was kind of impressive. I tried to find the button to turn it off, but it was hidden in the decorative skulls and hard to find. I couldn't get the stupid thing to turn off!

I’m glad no one is around to see this, I thought, glancing over my shoulder.

That’s when I saw the jogger behind me. Slack-jawed, he stared at me and this flashing skull staff like he thought I might have just escaped from the underworld myself. Oops. What are the odds someone would happen by just at that particular moment? I swear I’m cursed.

I turned and forced myself to casually walk back into my house, still carrying the staff. The man continued his jogged up the block, both of us trying to pretend nothing had happened.

5 comments:

Pinky Homer said...

Funny! Bet the guy was scared to death. So ignoring what happened was probably a better thing to do than admitting he was scared! Your love for Halloween is finally hunting you!

Karlene said...

Funny. You should have started laughing maniacally and chasing him down the street. :)

Jamie said...

I just want you to know that this post really really amused Kelli, Daphne, and I in the back room tonight. I was showing Kelli the thing about the fairy pictures, and then Daphne wanted to watch the bit about the HUGE marionette, and during that process I noticed that there was a new post. Which I stopped to read. And I'm so glad I did. :)

Raspberry said...

So where are you moving to? Pictures please?

Lepi said...

Cursed?! That is so funny! I would have laughed so hard if it had been me!

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