Halloween—North Texas Corvette Style 2015
By Bunky
…The irony of it all! “All Hallows Eve”—originally celebrated as ALL SAINTS—now, of course, it has become the
Anti-Saintly Night-- the night of devilish behavior and the opposite of "hallowed”. I am a little cautious about writing
about folks who pretend to be other people, because I am schizophrenic and so am I.
Most of the usual suspects were at Sandra and Bunky’s homemade house in the country, and because the 31 st actually fell
on a Saturday this year, and the weather cooperated many of the No-Show excuses were used up. (David Finfrock is a
pathological liar),
The costumes ran the gamut with Col. Sanders and a Bucket of Fried Chicken (Michelle and John) taking home the 1st
place prize of a bottle of Mogan David. Pretty sure John was seen recently on television with an ad for his product, and
Michelle could have hidden an 8 1/2 month family secret in that bucket. The inspiration for the costumes came from the
last Democratic Debate where Hillary promised all right wings and big thighs. Of course the other costumes were great—
showing imagination, creativity, and talent somewhat indicative of our members. Personally, I always look forward to
Bev’s creations—knowing she spent many hours over a hot sewing machine, and this year was no disappointment.
(Although there is nothing she can do about making Clay look any younger—even the toy cowboy thing didn’t help.)
Others in the running for the coveted bottle of MD 20-20 (aged on the truck), was Sonny and Cher (Lisa and Dale). Dale
grew the appropriate mustache and long hair (nice feat on such short notice), and as long as we are talking about short, I
can’t help but notice that size was a factor in their high marks, with Cher clearly being a foot taller than Sonny. And was I
the only one who noticed that Cher looked really “Hot”?
It was a relatively safe evening with the only known injury being a slight cut on Kaye’s hand. While Bride of Dracula
(Sandra), got side tracked three times looking for a band aide and her 6 th class of wine, Chuck and I sparred over who got
to lick the wound. Speaking of Dracula, Chuck looked pretty spiffy in his costume and it was very thoughtful of him to
bring his daughter, Rita, to the party. In addition to both of us dressed as Dracula, we have something else in common:
We were both born when Roosevelt was president, but I’m not going to speculate if it was Franklin of Teddy.
Once more back to the ‘60’s with Paul and Sioux. Nice job on Sue’s part, but I am a bit suspect of Paul’s outfit—the Afro
was not the problem. In fact that drew attention away from the obvious flaw. Paul looked like he worked at a car wash,
but as I recall, Paul doesn’t know much about washing his car before going to a NTCC event. Doug and Kermit will
verify this.
Other guests included Zoro and a pirate—(Dwayne and Mallory) Mallory miss- read the invitation and brought enough
food to feed all the Syrian refugees. A biker and his Poodle skirt girlfriend (Bill and Linda). Bill went all out for his
costume—grabbing his leather jacket on the way out the door. Our president who’s costume was a Nametag, (Daryl
really shot the lock off on his effort!) and Rosie the Riveter (Daryl and Doris). Then there was one refugee from Aladdin’s
lamp and his Genie (Hanks and Margie)-David can’t drive with his bad knees so his only mode of transportation was the
Magic Carpet, and somehow he talked Margie into dressing like a Garage Door Opener. The sheriff and the cat lady
(Linda and John Norris) Dracula and his Lady (Chuck and Rita ), The Railroad Engineer and his lady,(Nelson and Juneanyone besides Clay know the connection to Ozzie and Harriet?), A couple characters from “Grease” (Shirley & Lloyd),
The Mafia gangster and his kept woman (Ray and Myrna ), the doctor and his boss (Kermit and Shirley), a couple of JackO-Lanterns (Dennis and Kaye), Teddy Roosevelt—the Hunter—or Dr, Livingston, I presume, and some witch missing
only here broom—perhaps Hillary, but much better looking and far more qualified to lead our country (William and Jo
Ann). While talking about Jo Ann, this might be a good point to tell you that she won the pumpkin carving contest. There
were some great entries, and I would add that every Jack-O-Lantern got some votes, but the first place bottle of Matos
went to Jo Ann. I may have missed someone, but there was some consumption of adult beverages, and I am a bit
forgetful. Besides, I am a bit forgetful.
By the way, I am going to try to get Doug to Facebook the pictures of the costumes, or maybe have Jim to put them on our
website. Collectively, we didn’t do all that bad for a bunch of old geezers—which ties in with our proclivity for driving
Corvettes—still young at heart, trying to recapture our misspent youth, or just simply immature—you choose!
Now, a bit of a disclaimer might be worthy of mention at this juncture: The judging was done by the participants—some
of the voters were ghosts and goblins, and the oversite was done by ACORN, so appropriately some of the voting was
obviously done by dead people as in the presidential election! We just counted what was turned in. Contact Clay for
complaints.