Is that your costume?

It seems like everybody has a free card the few days before and after Halloween. The free card provides a couple of benefits: 1) one is free to dress horribly and ‘get away with it’, 2) one is able to ask ‘Is that your costume?’ and not be considered rude.

There are some people I know who appear to believe everyday, or every casual Friday, is Halloween. You know who I’m talking about. These are the coworkers who haven’t updated their wardrobe for decades or the coworker who wears their ‘coolest’, aka lamest, t-shirt with a pair of jeans, or, this person is you.

I love dressing up and have made it a Halloween tradition to dress up with Add-ly and Cookie. These two women are hotties and are very clever when it comes to group costumes. Last year we did Three’s Company, this year Gilligan’s Island. Both years I got the role of the ‘older, less sexy woman’ – Mrs. Roper and Mrs. Howell. Dr. BJ asked if that bothered me. “No,” I replied, “it’s Halloween, it’s a costume. Besides, I’m sexy all year round, so it is nice to change it up every now and again.” It might go without saying that I have gone home alone the last two years. Not sure why, I personally find moo moos sexy – especially the open-back variety.

Dr. BJ and I were at the store on Halloween (which was celebrated early in this town) and one of the employees, who was dressed as some video game clown, noticed a coworker walking by in what could have been an everyday outfit, casual Friday outfit, an I’m off the clock and going out to get wasted outfit, or a costume. Some Video Game Clown did not skip a beat, turned to his coworker and said, “Is that your costume?” Free card – granted and redeemed!