Age 17 -1994
Posted by admin in Past Halloweens
Someone gave me an old VHS old school style videocamera recorder. It actually took the VHS right in it so you can imagine how big this contraption was. It was given to a drug dealer “friend” as payment & he didn’t even want it so I borrowed it & I guess he forgot about it. So I actually used it to tape Halloween day that year, just hanging out at my house with John, Luis, Rudy & friends. I don’t know whatever happened to that tape though… Itried to keep it for as long as I could & I remember taping next years HH at Aberthau after it…
At that time I had gradded and working at, oh gawd, at Mr Submarine at Pacific Center mall. That was my most embaressing job ever in my life. Working in food services at a fast food joint. It was most humbling and humiliating & I vowed that I am much better than that & to never go there again. Anyways, I had to book off Oct 31 specifically & I was in near danger of actually having to work it, which would be a first for me! I can’t believe I just admitted to working at fast food. It makes me more feel more blessed & thankful at what I’ve accomplished.
The Ray Cam haunted house was a big hit as usual; it all turns in to a blur year after year. Pulling out the old decoration from the basement vault, shopping for more cobwebs & punkins at Superstore…. good times. Kaley & I dressed up as dead prom queens; we found old prom dresses at Value Villiage on Hastings & bloodied them up good.
Soooo on Halloween, after hanging out at my house goofing off, we all went to Metrotown Mall, my FIRST EVER year going to a mall. I mean it was early so we didn’t compromise our time outside. They had a big costume contest which had some SERIOUS contestants. Then we went TTing in the mall but they gave our really crappy candy, since there were so many kids. More later on how malls are diluting and changing Samhain tradtitions for the worse rant.
Then we took the Skytrain down & went TTing outisde, with Sara and ummmm… I really can’t remember anymore but there was a bunch of us! I think Beatriz & Zsuzanna was there but not Kaley for some reason. Possibly Luis & John. We went around the Renfrew skytrain station and somehow trick or treated our bad asses down to Broadway near Main St. Isn’t that random. The stragglers & I went into Wendy’s on Main st for food. I remember taking the bus home by myself, psyching myself up for all the Halloween specials my parents helped me tape on the VCRs. That, to me, was the BEST part of the night. The anticipation of going home & watch hours of halloween specials while eating candy till I fell asleep.