Best adult Halloween in my universe: 3 years ago, local attorney's annual Halloween bash... black geisha wig, blood-red cheongsam with gold frogs, black hose & kick-ass heels, lots of black eye-liner & vivid red lipstick...
A good time was had by all and the costumes were fabulous... super-sweet commonwealth attorney as The Hulk, local bad-boy attorney as Ricky Bobby, a certain judicial assistant as a busty school girl, a Mary Poppins public defender...
And then, there was a certain someone whose name AND profession will remain unspoken... one prone to being a little condescending, not always the most sincere of fellows, one who rarely remembered my name... dressed as a doctor... offering check ups... mmm, how original... ::yawn::
And the good doctor - checking out what I ultimately described as my-sphinx-meets-the-orient-express costume since neither me nor anyone there could decide if I was an egyptian or a geisha - would not move along...
The good doctor came back again and again, intrigued because he couldn't place me... though he'd seen and spoken to me for a year and a half in the course of our work... and the more perplexed he seemed, the funnier it got and the more determined I became not to tell this nerd who worked with me regularly who I was...
His frustration that he was not only unable to place me but that neither I or my friends would reveal who I was just made it better and better... it was like watching a cat with tape on its paws walking around shaking its feet and trying to figure out what the hell was going on and why it couldn't relieve itself of the nuisance...
I did finally let him off the hook and told him who I was... and once revealed, I got the impression he couldn't back-pedal fast enough... I think the good doctor actually had the good grace, unexpected good grace, to be a little embarrassed.
He did, I'll also note, remember my name after that.
hehehe cool.....
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