Well it was when I was ten. My best friend at the time was my next door neighbor, a boy my age named Jack. That October we managed to go see the new horror movie that had been released. Night of the living dead.
[Smiles and shakes his head.]
It was terrifying, but we loved it. After that we decided to play a prank on Jack's older sister Rosemary. We saved up our money till one day at the end of October, my mother was at work, and I was over at Jacks house. It was just a bit after dark and the three of us were the only ones at his house. Rosemary used to be in charge of us a lot when our parents were working late, or busy.
So it was night and we were supposed to be watching a movie on the tv while she was doing her homework and keeping an eye on us. But she spent most of the time talking to her friend on the phone so it was easy to sneak away from her. We just left the tv on and snuck down to the basement.
Like I said, we'd saved up some money and stolen some stuff from the pantries in our homes. So we set everything up. And then Jack screamed and we pushed a can on the ground so it smashed open. Rosemary came down the stairs and found what looked like a murder scene.
The tomato juice and paint covered the floor and then we moved slowly to our feet moaning like zombies. Fake injuries on us.
.... unfortunately we apparently did too good a job because she screamed and ran screaming out of the house for someone to call an ambulance.
[Yeah....rubs the back of his neck.]
Eventually my mother and his parents got home and found us being held by some police officers, covered in paint and tomato juice and the basement nearly painted red. I don't think I've ever seen my mother so angry. And to make it better, the entire neighborhood had heard the commotion and was outside to see what was going on. So we got to be yelled at in front of all of them and the police.
We ended up grounded for well over a month for that. ...we even missed Halloween. Which I think was the worst part. Though we also had to spend hours cleaning the basement of Jack's house. I don't think it ever all came out....
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Well it was when I was ten. My best friend at the time was my next door neighbor, a boy my age named Jack. That October we managed to go see the new horror movie that had been released. Night of the living dead.
[Smiles and shakes his head.]
It was terrifying, but we loved it. After that we decided to play a prank on Jack's older sister Rosemary. We saved up our money till one day at the end of October, my mother was at work, and I was over at Jacks house. It was just a bit after dark and the three of us were the only ones at his house. Rosemary used to be in charge of us a lot when our parents were working late, or busy.
So it was night and we were supposed to be watching a movie on the tv while she was doing her homework and keeping an eye on us. But she spent most of the time talking to her friend on the phone so it was easy to sneak away from her. We just left the tv on and snuck down to the basement.
Like I said, we'd saved up some money and stolen some stuff from the pantries in our homes. So we set everything up. And then Jack screamed and we pushed a can on the ground so it smashed open. Rosemary came down the stairs and found what looked like a murder scene.
The tomato juice and paint covered the floor and then we moved slowly to our feet moaning like zombies. Fake injuries on us.
.... unfortunately we apparently did too good a job because she screamed and ran screaming out of the house for someone to call an ambulance.
[Yeah....rubs the back of his neck.]
Eventually my mother and his parents got home and found us being held by some police officers, covered in paint and tomato juice and the basement nearly painted red. I don't think I've ever seen my mother so angry. And to make it better, the entire neighborhood had heard the commotion and was outside to see what was going on. So we got to be yelled at in front of all of them and the police.
We ended up grounded for well over a month for that. ...we even missed Halloween. Which I think was the worst part. Though we also had to spend hours cleaning the basement of Jack's house. I don't think it ever all came out....