The Halloween pics are up.
One thing that I forgot to mention in this section was the events that occured the night prior to Halloween. It was about 3am(1) and Mike and I had just dropped off George. Neither of us were tired and somewhere in the conversation the events of “gate nights” past were brought up. Being mature adults(2)…it had been some time since we had stirred up any trouble and decided tonight was the night. We thought hard of possible victims and finally found ourselves crouched down in the dark pulling on the black touques whispering the game plan on Timmy’s(3) street. We worked our way up along the house, breaking the sticky edge on the toilet paper roll as we approached. Then we struck. Circling our path around the car with precision seen only in the movies. We dodged the headlights of each passer by becoming the shadows around us. Our hearts sped with every second wasted trying to find the start to the saran wrap before it squealed around the torso of the car, luminance from the nearby street light flared in the cars new skin. The flash from the camera sent us running like a starting pistol in the 100m dash.
(1) – What the hell was I still doing up at 3am? Nowadays that’s about when I wake up to pee.
(2) – We were 24 years old.
(3) – I remember Timmy G being a super good sport about this. We were excited to see him at hockey so that we could listen to him tell the story. Instead it was just like any other day for Timmy. It was like it was the 3rd time it had happened to him that week. Mike and I were like “anything crazy happen on the weekend Timmy?” – Timmy was like “Oh ya…”