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[The water cooler - What Eastsiders are talking about - By Ann Garretson]

"What was the best, or worst, Halloween costume you ever wore?"
(asked at Kirkland's Marina Park on 10-22-98; published in the EJ on 10-25-98)


[pt.]Bernie Reinholt, Regional salesperson, Renton
[blue rule]
"I guess the best was Tinkerbell, when I was about 16. It was an old ballet costume with wings and slippers and everything. A bunch of us girls from Ravenhill Academy of the Assumption in Philadelphia put on a whole Peter Pan thing. It was a neat time."

[pt.]Dick Noble, Model, Seattle
[blue rule]
"I was a flasher once, and that was probably the best and the worst costume. It was too genuine. It got real exciting before the night was over. It was at a party, but then we ended up going to taverns -- that's when the pace of the action really picked up."

[pt.]James Shepperd, Project planner, Kirkland
[blue rule]
"I think the best was as a wolf. When my beard was long, I dyed my hair darker brown and put brown all over my face and then I wore fleece -- we bought some fur and sewed some fleece on the back of the fur to make it look like a wolf in sheep's clothing. And it worked well with my last name."

[pt.]Kevin Casper, Small business consultant, Kirkland
[blue rule]
"Oh, that had to be last year -- I dressed up as a woman, a big-breasted woman. And everything was falling apart by the end of the night. I liked it for the first ten minutes, but the rest of the night it was very uncomfortable."

[pt.]Don Johnson, Machinist, Federal Way
[blue rule]
"A few years ago, I went as a woman. My wife made me wear it. I looked like a 250-pound woman. The whole works. I didn't like it -- besides all the propositions I got. I thought it was my worst costume. My wife thought it was great."

[pt.]Bill Kennedy, Marine maintenance, Bremerton
[blue rule]
"A long time ago, just a bunch of black spots. It was a last minute throw-away thing because there was a party. I never really have been into Halloween. I'm only into it for my kids."

 

[blue rule]

© 1998 by the Bellevue, WA-based Eastside Journal (née Journal American) newspaper.

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