Excuse my horrible handwriting. This was my costume. I wore the posterboard with my story around my neck and the mask on my face to a party.
Some people stood in front of me and took a few minutes to read it out loud. They mostly laughed. Some people walked by me and said, “I’m not reading that.” But my favorite? That would be a girl who looked at all the writing and angrily said in my face, “What is this?! Your costume doesn’t make sense!”
Angry girl and I happened to be waiting in line for the bathroom later that night.
“I don’t get your costume,” she told me again in a significantly less accusatory voice.
“Neither do I!” I replied.
(Ok, that’s not true. It was a thrown together backstory of a character I made up who happened to have a facial deformity which caused him to look like he had a mask on his face… a deformity which only allowed him to blend in on Halloween. But this character chose to go to the party and tell everyone that he was not wearing a mask, which means he was not wearing a costume to a Halloween party, even though back in reality, my face isn’t really deformed in a way that makes it appear there’s a mask on it, but that was my costume to the party, which is so meta. So it’s not ha ha funny, but it’s more interesting than that dude dressed as a fucking pirate.)
Also, there are dick jokes tucked away in that sloppy handwriting somewhere.
