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October 14, 2009
Amanda Nava
Most people have experienced undeniably embarrassing moments. But when you add costumes, candy and people running around at night in costumes, the humiliation seems more potent than ever. It is as if though the holiday that represents the unusual and supernatural makes the simplest situations complicated and awkward. Perhaps you weren’t the person who became embarrassed, but you might have caused someone else to feel humiliated. Regardless, all embarrassing Halloween moments are one thing: entertaining.
Your most mortifying Halloween memory could have happened last year or ten years ago. For junior Jenny Krasnovskaya, it occurred when she was seven. Krasnovskaya went door to door, ringing each doorbell, eager for candy. At one house, a man in a mask jumped out.
“I was so scared I peed in my pants,” Krasnovskaya said.
In another instant, junior Cristy Lee was trick-or-treating one year and stepped into a house.
“I heard a voice that said ‘look up.’ I looked up, and there was a guy looking at me through a window. Suddenly, he threw an apple at me and I yelped. I stood there bemused that he just thrown a fruit at me. He proceeded to give me a piece of candy and told me he was just kidding, as if that would erase what just happened,” Lee said.
Other times, a mortifying event doesn’t happen because of the person who hands out the candy, but from fellow trick-or-treaters.
Last year junior Ryan Evans and his friend were on their usual route, dressed up as Barack Obama and John McCain. They ran into some people that they knew. Out of nowhere, one of the girls in the group started racing towards them. At one point she charged after them on all fours and snarled like an animal. Evans and his friend barely escaped.
The moment something embarrassing happens seems like the worst thing that has ever occurred—sometimes it is. But a person just has to look back on the event and laugh. Plus, once you tell someone about it, you usually feel better about what happened. Besides, your mortifying stories just might make another person’s day better.
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