Halloween, pirates, and creepy stores
I got invited to my first-ever Halloween party this year (it’s about time). A girl at church is throwing it for what is turning out to be basically the members of our Sunday School class (and a few friends). Although our family’s made a point of not celebrating Halloween in the past, I figure that joining two other guys to dress up as the Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything is gonna be silly enough to be tolerable. We’ll see.
Anyways, after lunch at a mexican restaurant today, the three of us went to the mall to try to find some pirate gear. We’re gonna try to match the costumes on the video as much as possible, inasmuch as can be done by three guys who are not vegetables. After seeing the prices at the pleasant costume shop ($40! for a stupid pirate costume!), we decided to try a piecemeal system. We’d just get a few swords, a bandanna, and a big ol’ Cap’n Crunch hat with a tic-tac-toe game drawn on it, and get thrift store clothes for the rest.
So we went into this other, really creepy-looking costume store, where I did find a decent plastic sword for $4. As I stood in line waiting to check out, and looked around further, I started realizing this was not a nice place for a nice Christian boy to be on Sunday afternoon (or anytime, actually). It actually started to get rather oppressive. And the cashier was weird, like she was high on something or other. I considered ditching the sword and running, but then I noticed it: right by the cash register, in the middle of all the evil-looking garbage, was a little plastic dashboard Jesus.
I don’t know what it means, but mostly it distracted from the rest of the junk and calmed me down a little. A light in the darkness? Hypocritical kitsch? You decide.
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