Last night I was sitting around chatting with my roommate when he reminded me of a story involving a mutual friend of ours. As it happened my roommate and our friend were spending a fall evening at a local pub getting good and drunk. On the way home they we’re laughing riotously about something or other and our friend, out of jubilation, slapped a pumpkin off of its perch on a step, causing it to roll, unbroken mind you, into a neighboring yard. The two ruffians continued walking along until about half a block later they heard a commotion behind them and turned to see a barefoot and shirtless, mulleted and mustachioed man sprinting at them as he hurled insults and slurs. Before they knew what was happening the man was on top of them punching our friend repeatedly in the face and screaming that he wanted five dollars for the offense of knocking a pumpkin into his yard. Apparently there was some contentious haggling that followed but in the end the man did receive his five dollars and all parties went on their way.
The man clearly overreacted, something men are often want to do. It got me thinking about how men overreact, over engineer, over everything just about everything and how that applies to the season that is upon us and particularly Halloween. Here then are some results of my search:
This one’s a bit long but the idea is awesome: