How I Spent My Halloween

[Gail Bohacek]

Hey, since everybody else is telling about their Halloween experience, I 
thought I'd share my little story, which has a Harry Potter Happy Ending...

Well, I was all geared up to go over my friends' house in the evening...had 
my robes, my pointy witches hat...ready to go...but then a co-worker of mine 
reminded me that I had promised (a long while ago) that I would pick up 
somebody else from their work that evening and bring her home.  I'd made 
this promise, forgetting that it was Halloween, and I couldn't weasel my way 
out of it, so I had to surrender.  And this person, Amanda, worked in a 
mall, two hours away from where we were in Philadelphia.  I was bumming.

But then, I decided that I wasn't going to let this spoil my Halloween, by 
gum!   I brought along my robes, and two hours later, when I got to the 
mall, I put them on, and went in the mall wearing them.  Got a lot of double 
takes, I tell you.  Amanda, she's a manager of a shop in the mall, and it 
turns out that they sell all sorts of Christmas decorations and calendars.  
When I got there, she loved my costume, although she thought I was Gandalf.  
She really appreciated that I came to pick her up, and I kinda rubbed it in, 
the fact that I gave up my Halloween to help her out...I wasn't being mean, 
just,  "Oh, yeah, by the way..."

Then Amanda said, to make it up to me, I could pick out whatever I wanted 
from the store.  "Really?  Anything?"  The store had a small section devoted 
just to Harry Potter, which attracted  me just like a magnet.  So, that 
evening I picked up (totally free!) a Harry Potter CoS 2003 calendar, not 
the large size though...it's about 1/2 the size of a regular 
calendar...plus, I got another one, which is one of those day-by-day 
calendars which you tear off a sheet for each day...and each sheet has a way 
cool picture from the movie...and I mean way cool!...I don't know if anybody 
out there has picked one of these up yet, but I want to tell you about it, 
but I should really mosey over to Movie Chatter to do so...

By the time I got back home, it was 9:00 pm, too late for 
Trick-or-Treating...but I went over to my friends' house anyway.  Turned out 
that they were still had their costumes on (one friend was a little Dutch 
girl, complete with wooden shoes, and the other was a cow). We ended up 
crusing around Philadelphia in my car wearing our costumes, with the radio 
turned up, singing _Hotel California_ at the top of our lungs...we had fun 
and the evening didn't turn out to be such a waste after all.

Will be posting pictures once they get developed!

-Gail B.

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