My kids wanted to go trick-or-treating.  We usually hit some friends’ homes, the local church’s trunk-or-treat and then a few houses along the path home.   This year, there weren’t many lights on, on main street, so I took them on the side roads of the big city of Medina – population around 200.  They were a little leery of going up to houses and knocking on the doors of strangers, since that’s not something they would normally do…so, it took a few houses for them to get comfy (and cocky) about the whole process.

As we drove around, there was one house that didn’t have a porch light on, but did have strings of orange lights all around their carport.  It was in the middle of a street, and just happened to be the last house we stopped at. 

GOOD thing, too!

A man, dressed in prison garb, came walking to the edge of his carport when the kids came up.  They politely said TRICK-OR-TREAT and he started handing them candy.

Then he started talking “Halloween Trash” to them – we could hear him from the car, and the kids were laughing and joking with him.  Then, he told them they needed to be careful on such a scary night, that he heard a man with a chainsaw was loose in the neighborhood.

They laughed and joked about it.

Then, all of a sudden, a man came out of the bushes and revved up his chainsaw.  You have never seen four kids jump completely off the ground and move 10 feet without their feet ever touching the ground in your life!  JD and I were watching all of this unfold, and we showed our “bad parent” side by bursting out laughing.

When DD#2 came to the car, she said all she could think of was to grab onto her brother and save him – when in reality, what she did was to grab him and put herself behind him – basically so she could be spared!  I asked her how it felt to SAVE her BROTHER and she laughed, said it wasn’t something she thought of.

DD#3 walked very slowly to the car, tears streaming down her face.  Poor thing!  Of course, JD and I couldn’t stop laughing, so once she got in the car, she realized it was a scary halloween trick, and she then proclaimed (a half-dozen times) that he scared the BEJEEBERS out of her!

Lucky for them, they have no clue about the movie Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and neither do I (nor do I want to!). 

It gave us all a good laugh – and we’ll just have to see if they beg to go to THAT house again next year!