Virus declared itself Wednesday evening as we were at the neighborhood community council meeting. Came home, crawled in bed. Stayed there through Thursday until Friday morning. Work today tolerable misery. Congestion settling in for the evening.
D's week was pretty awful. Dead body outside his staff room on Monday. Police uncommunicative, but likely an OD, not a crime. He happened to see them turn the guy over, and really did not want that in his head. Thursday, a bomb threat. He wrote me "Bomb sniffing dogs apparently still at the airport. Probably at the baggage claim, waiting for their luggage."
He wants to put out a mock-up of a body on the lawn for halloween. Face down, back-pack and syringes scattered nearby. Catharsis. I'm good with this, as long as we let our next door neighbors know ahead of time. In retrospect, he hesitates, thinks it may not be a good idea. I encourage him, as long as it's clearly a Halloween thing, the week of, and that, once approached, it clearly is a straw man.
Many years ago, when I worked at the old library, I got off the staff elevator, and saw a body just outside in the hall, as the doors opened. A moment of panic, then slow realization, remembering it was Halloween, and there was no head, no hands nor feet. Clearly just stuffed pants and shirt. A great prank, quickly resolved, very well done. I never know who by, although I have a few guesses. Never forgot that moment, the adrenaline rush, the relief.
So, yeah, I'm up for the "body" thing. We've done much the same, mannikin sitting in a chair on the porch before. This is just a variation.
Off to indulge in Nyquil™.
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amazing how quickly illness can settle upon you - 0 to 60 in an hour or so! take care, rest well, get back to good. if it's good for one thing, it's to make one appreciate wellness...if only for a wee bit.
A vivid memory from trick or treating with my children when they were tykes: we approached a house with a figure slumped in a chair by the front door. Was it a person? It was absolutely still. We got closer and closer, still not sure. And then this guy lunges upward at us making scary noises. As we later learned, this was a house whose owner really, really did Halloween, bigtime. We were scared out of our wits before we started laughing.
So yes, make that guy unmistakably straw. : )
pc,
And a day or two later, the congestion really smacks.
Michael,
Had that happen at a costume shop, what I thought was an inanimate figure in black on the stairs, suddenly stood up. Apparently I have quite the scream under startle circumstances, not that I hear myself.
Yes, I'll make sure it's not at all realistic on second look. And let my closest neighbors know ahead of time.
we're getting congested and itchy hereafter a week indoors with hundreds of people..commiserations xx
Get well soon.
I find Halloween a really difficult time and try to ignore it as much as possible.....only now it is also Granddaughter's birthday!
gz,
Commiserations. Everyone at work has had the goombah, I began to think I'd dodged it. Nope.
RR,
~snurfle~ thanks.
I've always rather liked the holiday, dressing up and going out in the dark, no church, no family dinner. The one night of the year I never had nightmares.
Get well soon!
A Halloween 'body' is attracting attention in your old home town...
gentle,
Oh, my. Yeah, this one will be obvious on second look, especially in this neighborhood. Perhaps with an "I ATEN'T DEAD!" sign attached.
Thank you for that.
I'm finally home from the Family Visit... Just checking in. I hope you feel better soon.
Nyquil is our friend (sometimes).
YOu can tell I'm totally zonked with exhaustion because I posted that twice...
(o)
Fresca
I'll get some rest. You too, ok?
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