Wednesday, October 8, 2008

You Chose B: Go Away, Children!

Grumbling, you gather your scattered candy off the floor and put it back in the bag. The kids knock and chant their petition a second time, and you scoff and wait for them to give up and leave. But they don't leave. You hear their muffled voices through the door. One of the boys says something and the others laugh, their young voices cracking with a sound like donkeys. Then nothing. You tiptoe to the door and peer through the peephole, but nobody's there. Well then. You settle back down to your movie. You love this part. In every zombie movie, there has to be a scene in which the main characters get to go to an empty store and take whatever they want. Some salt and vinegar chips sure would be good about now.

Suddenly, something crashes through your window! It is on fire! Without stopping to think, you grab your whiskey bottle and dump it over the flames. It doesn't help much. The stench of burning carpet fills the room as you take your blanket and hurl yourself on top of the mess. Which turns out to be a bag of poo tied to a brick. Furious, you dash to the window and peer into the darkness. You hear the braying cackle again, and you unleash a streak of foul language until one of your neighbors hollers at you to keep it down. "Not over!" you hear the grating adolescent voices yell in the distance, "We know where you live!" Their laughter sounds frantic.

You draw the curtains in front of the broken window, but the cold wind billows them into the room. You grab your phone and file a report with the police. They say that such pranks are common and there's nothing else they can do at the moment. You begin to contemplate the mess in the middle of your livingroom. There's a knock at the door, meek this time, and a young woman's voice sneers "Trick or treat." You think this can't be a coincidence and wonder if she's in cahoots with the vandals. Just then, the wind whips your curtain, and you think you glimpse someone right outside the window. Do you

A) Grab the empty whiskey bottle by it's neck and open the curtain or
B) Open the door


GO!

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