The McCarty Metro - Halloween Memories

Hello Metro Reader,

My favorite time of the year has always been fall. The crisp evenings, football games, crunching leaves under my feet as I walked, and of course, Halloween. One of the most special days of the year was the week before Halloween, when my mom would go into the attic and pull the 2 big boxes of miscelleanous Halloween costumes out and my brothers and I would go through them. We didn't go out and purchase our costumes every year, we would go through this rag-tag box of odds and ends and put together the "perfect" costume.

I would like to take a poll of our readers to find out about your Halloween.

1. Your favorite Halloween costume of all time
2. Your favorite treat to get
3. A funny or memorable Halloween story that happened to you.
4. If you are dressing up this year, what are you going to be.

Name:	Favorite Costume:	Favorite Treat:	My Memorable Halloween Story:	This Year I'm:
Kelly McCarty	Yorgo. One of the "2 Wild & Crazy Guys" from SNL	Charleston Chew	Going as a ghoul and playing a set at Vinnie's with The Cockroaches.	Bob Balch (oooh, scary)
Brad McCarty	Pumpkin	Grandma McCarty's Potato Chips	When my dad made me cry during his Halloween show at the old house.	Outback Jack
Larry McCarty	Hobo (Age 3-16)	3 Musketeer Candy Bar	D.J. and I had to deliver newspapers and the paper truck was running late. So we went down the street next to the paper station and trick-r-treated as paperboys. A lot of people tossed candy in our bag ... several asked where their paper was. Oooh ... can I do two stories ... Dad picked up Henry's Hamburgers a couple of times for us to eat before we went out trick-r-treating ... man that was livin'	A washed up ex-band member from the Cockroaches.
Bob Balch	Indiana Jones	Anything that is made from Dark Chocolate	Last year, being so warm, gave us the opportunity to show a fun Halloween movie on our garage using a video projector. "Trick or Treaters" of all ages got the chance to stop, rest their tired feet and linger a while before resuming their begging . It was a chance to make new Halloween memories that would last for many years.	Bass player from the legendary rock band, "Brad Savage, and his Cockroaches"
Larry Wendt	Eddie Munster (with mini pet Spot on leash)	Full size Milky Ways (That was a big deal to get the full size)	We went to the neighbor's house for trick or treating. The neighbor came running out of the house with a devil's costume with the intention of scaring us. He tripped on his cape and slipped on the top step of the porch and slid all the way down only to reveal a pained and embarrassed maskless face. We all stood over him laughing and pointing at his face.	A fat, bald guy. (I know, kind of a stretch)
Karen McCarty	Little Bo Peep	Baby Ruth	.	Not dressing up
Mike McCarty	skeleton	Candy bars	As I walked up the middle of Sussex Avenue chatting with my friends, others in our group ran up to houses and soaped windows. Suddenly, I heard a door burst open and saw a man burst out of the house and chased us. One by one, all my friends were darting off to the sides and disappearing. Finally, it was just the guy and me. I finally managed to turn. I ran through a neighbor's yard, with the guy huffing behind me. I turned my ankle on a brick, hopped over the fence and lay still in the alley. The guy came up to the fence, looked down the alley but didn't see me. He left. I hobbled back to my friends - with a broken ankle.	Not dressing up
Jerry McCarty	Hobo (1965 to 1973)	Chuckles or Candy Cigarettes	When I had my house on Tilch, DJ came over with his Michael Meyers mask and a pair of overalls. When kids came up to my door, DJ ran from the back yard with a gas powered weedwacker revving it up to scare the kids like in Texas Chainsaw Massacre. One parent on the porch said, “If I give him five bucks will he do my weeds?”	Napoleon Dynamite’s Brother…….Sweet !!
Kathlene McCarty	Gyspy when I was 9 years old. My mom made it with all kinds of bright colors and lots of jewelry	Anything with peanut butter. I'd trade Roger for all his Reeses	Evan "Dipsy" McCarty	Not dressing up
Dana McCarty	A witch with fluffy orange feathers on my hat and dress	All candy, but mostly Sour Skittles		Mermaid
Evan McCarty	I don't like costumes, but my mom liked me as Dipsy, one of the Teletubbies	Chocolate and suckers		Buzz Lightyear
Chris Remboldt	I never dressed up for Halloween	Snickers	Last Halloween I was walking with my bro and sis at night, on the lane that winds through our valley. It was a dark and quiet rural night, and we were so paranoid. We got quite a scare from some varmint in the woods that border the lane...we stood there scared for about ten minutes	Black Rider from The Lord of the Rings
Margaret McCarty	Cave Woman	Hersheys Dark Chocolate	My favorite memories are of when my kids were babies and we all went out trick or treating.	Cockroach Groupie
Austin McCarty	Barney	Sour Patch Kids	Going on patrol with my parents on Devil's Night. I would man the walkie talkies, and keep would-be mischief makers far away from our hidden secret bunker.	Jesus
Carla McCarty	Jane Jetson (what a babe!)	Chocolate ice cubes	Dressing as a Russian girl with white boots, furry white coat and ear muffs, a red dress, and of course very pink cheeks. This crabby old lady comes out and tells me. "You could have at least dressed up for Halloween! I'm not going to give you any candy!"	A mom with 3 kids
Kristen (I really don't like Halloween) McCarty	Bunny (not Karen's Dad)	Mini Hersheys	5th grade -- My girlfriend Julie and I dressing up in long gowns, long white gloves and high heels... telling everyone we were lady's of the night. I mean really, what was wrong with my parents, to let two 11 year olds cruise the neighborhood getting treats for tricks? Yeah, I'm scared for my daughter too :)	A Pregnant Butterfly (Megan's idea)