Booooooo oooo ooooooo
Well, it’s 11pm on the night before Halloween. Since I’ve been sicker than a dog for 3 days, I would really like to be sleeping? What am I doing instead? Sitting up watching the Suite Life of Zach and Cody on monster duty. 10 year olf Little Miss was invited to a friend’s halloween party tonight. On the invitation it said they were going to a terror trail. Silly me assumed they meant some silly, mildly scary, trail around their house in the woods. No. Not that at all.
Terror Trail is a super scary outdoor haunted trail thing, where grown people, well, sometimes need a change of clothes when they are done – not for 10 year olds on Friday nights. By the time I realized where they were actually going, it was too late for me to stop it really, and then I figured that hopefully the performers would maybe realize they had a group of young ones brought by someone who didn’t check the place out first and take it easy on them, maybe the mother would see the sign saying it was appropriate for kids over 13, or maybe my daughter would just protest so much she wouldn’t go in.
Nope, none of that happened. While little miss did protest, she was still encouraged to go. The actors didn’t let up. In fact, I’m a bit shocked at the amount of grabbing and not letting go of customers that went on. I don’t recall being held onto when I went years ago. Several perfomers got kicked by the kids, and that makes me a bit happy I must say – I just wish Little Miss woulda been the one kicking. So, she came home sobbing, who knows how long she had been sobbing, and she doesn’t want to sleep in her room…imagine that. So here I am, sitting up… with my only comfort being so are 7 other parents, including the one in charge……
I was “forced” to watch Nightmare on Elm Street by some friends when I was 9, and it freaked me out for YEARS… like 20 years… I can’t even imagine having to deal with the haunted house thing where the scary stuff was actually happening to you! Hopefully she copes well, I don’t recal reading this chapter in the What to Expect book…
