The Day After

Well driving around the morning after Halloween was truly an experience I will not soon forget. Pumpkins smashed everywhere, trash all throughout the streets and remnants of the previous night’s parties. I even saw three 5^th or 6^th Graders out playing in the middle of the street and yes it was 3:00 am. When I was driving around I felt like I was driving in an obstacle course. The last thing I wanted was pumpkin junk on Lisa’s car. So now we get to see how long it takes to take down the Halloween stuff. Is it like Christmas? You know the houses I’m talking about. The ones that come Easter they barely have animated figures put away and then by the 4^th of July all the lights might be down. And in case you are wondering, yes there are Halloween lights. Boy I’m glad that day is over with. Now I can down the dark streets on my route without the worry of being freaked out. Suzi will be happy, no more nightmares, phew. So now it’s on to Thanksgiving! And then Christmas! By the way……… 52 days until Christmas.

On the Wild Kingdom front…… (man do I wish I had sound on this blog. I’d want to insert that breaking news sound. You know the old ticker sound) I saw 2 big, no monster size raccoons this morning in someone’s garage. I scared them as the lights from the car hit them and they ran away. That was good for the person who’s garage was ravaged by these things, but bad for me. Why bad for me? Because they ran to the yard of the house I was going to. They ran half way up a tree in the front yard of a house that I had to put the paper on the porch of. Now up till now I had been afraid of fake witches and fake blood. Well I ran out of the car, threw the paper and ran back into the car. Man if one of those things would have so much as stuck it’s tongue (do raccoons have tongues?) out at me I think I would have wet my pants. That would have been bad! I can see trying to explain that one to Suzi. Even worse, what if those two ginormous animals would have attacked? I can see it now, “How were you hurt?”, “I was attacked by two raccoons while on my paper route”, (this would be where all the nurses break out in laughter) and then……“Sir, did you know you wet your pants?” Oh the humiliation! I do know this though, I would have to bribe Suzi so that the kids wouldn’t find out. And then there’s the blog, do you really think I would have said anything here? NOT!