October 17, 2009

That very first year of October Thoughts, oh so long ago, was a much simpler time. The six of us would load into the van and hit the road and we would begin our discussion of what the October Thought for the Day would be.

Usually, it wasn't so much a discussion of what the Thought would be so much as a discussion about whatever we'd picked. 

It was something that brought us together. Well, except Tim. He just put his headphones on, curled up in a ball and went to sleep. but the rest of us bonded over a shared love of Chex Mix, popcorn balls, Frankenstein and the image of a witch flying across a full moon.

But, like I said, it was simpler then.

We would make simple pronouncements:

"The October Thought for the Day for today, October 17 is a little kid dressed up as a ghost, wearing a bedsheet."

And that would be it. What's more October than that?

But then the internet complicated it. There's just so much information. Though I'm not sure why you'd need this, EHow has even posted instructions for how to make a ghost costume from an old sheet. Seriously.

This one tells you how to get your ghost costume/sheet to stay on. Something about this little video struck me as terribly funny. I'm not sure why.

But this one is even sillier.