Box Seats at the Halloween Parade 2018 - NaBloPoMo Day 1
After an approximately 9 year hiatus, Tom and I were back at the Halloween parade last night. We're no amateurs. We were out, decked out, on a Wednesday night. Things I learned:
- CareBears take up a lot of room on the subway.
- It takes 10 times as long to walk anywhere when the barricades are set up like a really boring corn maze.
- Halloween eve is a really poor time to move a giant mirror into your apartment. I did not learn this lesson personally, but the two guys who did probably will pass this advice on to their grandchildren.
The lure was mainly Wanda and Derek's apartment. It's on 6th Avenue, 1st floor right in the middle of Soho. We opened up the windows and halloween in all its LED glory rolled out beneath us. It was like having box seats to a really disorganized flash mob.
Wanda entertained herself by chucking candy at unwary children. Tiny Samuel L. Jackson was on to her though. He got two fun-size snickers bars and so did his little sister, John Travolta.
Tom dressed up as a priest. He wore the same shirt that Ed from his office wore to a party last Saturday. It was an actual priest shirt, which was cheaper to buy online than a costume priest shirt. Tom said the shirt was completely not breathable. He'll be washing it before he returns it to Ed.
I went as an extra from the Mary Tyler Moore show. I wore Grammy R's pink silk shirt with the giant bow in the front and her blue velvet 70's suit with a white beaded handbag.
You might say we phoned it in.
A dragon goes by:
The patch of sidewalk right below our window perch held a mysterious appeal for ninja coolies:
Meanwhile, this dude wins the prize for single-minded focus. He played an intense game of candy crush for half an hour while coolies, batmans, half-naked witches and a 6'6" Cruella Deville pranced practically across his feet. I hope he leveled up.
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