WORKING BACKWARDS III

Favorite book, page 91
"I'm sure you have heard it said that appearance does not matter so much, and that it is what's on the inside that counts. This is, of course, utter nonsense, because if it were true then people who were good on the inside would never have to comb their hair or take a bath, and the whole world would smell even worse than it does already."

Ha! This was obviously written after standing next to someone who had been running around in a monkey costume in 75 degree weather all night! Pee-yew!

Anyway...
There was a trick part of "trick or treating" this year, and all at Evan's expense (poor Evan).

As I said before, Evan had to work on Halloween, but he got off early and was home about the time that we finished trick or treating (or about the time that we could get Michael away from his junior high school groupies!).

(B.T.W. What does it look to you like Michael's T-shirt says?)

Michael and his "brother-from-another-mother," A.B, decided they hadn't had enough fun yet. So they put Alan in the monkey suit, and headed over to our house where Evan was just settling down to a nice, nobody-else-home evening. Michael called Evan on the cell phone, and began chatting away while A.B./gorilla-guy followed me inside the house.

Evan had just hung up the phone and was surprised that "Michael" was already home.

"I thought you were still trick-or-treating."

Before I could say a word, A.B. was upstairs, pretending to pick nits and such from Evan's head.

"Dad, cut it out!"

To which gorilla guy responded by "OO-EE--AH--AH"-ing as only a gorilla guy could do.

"What's up with Dad tonight?"

This was apparently the cue to make A.B. monkey wrestle Evan to the ground and begin thumping his rubberized chest. Just then Michael came inside with a cheerful,

"Hi, Evan. What's up?"

This made Evan stop and think a moment.

"Dad???? What's going on? Who's this? What's going on?! Who IS THIS???!!!"

Evan was beside himself. You could see his eyes getting bigger and bigger, and his face going whiter and whiter. The relief just flooded his face when Alan took off the mask and Evan figured it all out enough to start laughing with us.

"You jerk!" Ha, ha! "You jerk!" Chuckle, chuckle! "I can't believe you did that to me!" Chortle, snort. "You jerk!" Giggle, guffaw.

Yes, it's all fun and games until someone gets nit-picked by an ugly ape who is not your dad.