22 Halloween Photos And An Awkward Moment Involving Duck Sex
Sunday, November 1, 2009 Despite my grinchly attitude toward Halloween, I had a fantabulous time.
At the bottom of the above photo, you'll notice that I signed a Bible with the following: Bible thing! Also, sorry about the duck genitals.
There was a guy dressed as a priest who walked around with a stolen Gideon's Bible. He was having people sign it, and when he handed me his pen we ended up deep in a conversation about the finer points of the bizarre nature of duck sex and their genitalia. Quite suddenly and without warning, he decided that the subject was far too disturbing for him and ran off, leaving his Bible behind.
I don't know what gets into me sometimes that I will pursue avenues of really inappropriate conversation with people I barely know, but it happens despite my swearing every time that I won't do it again. I could probably write a whole book about being so awkward that my awkwardness actually scares people away, but no one would want to go through the many hours of feeling awkward along with me that it would take to get through the book, so it would end up on sale shelves with 99-cent stickers on them, and I would feel bad about scaring people away with my awkwardness in print.
Anyway, I felt really bad about scaring off a priest with stories about the strangeness of duck sex, and I wanted to apologize without further torturing him with my conversation style, so I wrote my apology in his stolen Bible, which I then also felt guilty about, because now he will be reminded of our conversation every time he opens his Bible.
Can I help you associate reading your Bible with duck genitalia? Certainly!
Oh, the minefield that is the art of conversation!
(The above photos were taken with my iPhone using either the TiltShift Generator or the ShakeItPhoto applications.)
Reader Comments (10)
Bitch, please! You have AWESOME friends. I can tell!!
that duck link was fascinating. and if i were at that party, i would have talked to you all about the subject of duck sex...but then i tend to be the one that brings up things like that in our circle.
I would stab all of you to get my hands on the peach dress that blonde bombshell is wearing. I am also overly curious about how the giant-skellington-head boys were able to drink their beers, although I'm sure they found a way.
I think the iPhone is the new Polaroid. The photos have a certain intimacy that you don't get with photos with a higher quality image.
Duck sex! Something I had never before thought about. But obviously an important thing for ducks.
Looks as if you had a great Halloween despite yourself!
Kate,
I got the peach dress at Le Chateau.
http://www.lechateau.ca/en/index
It's apparently very popular. The girl at the table next to ours was wearing the exact same one. We sheepishly tried to avoid eye contact with each other.
:)
I am forever starting inappropriate and disturbing conversations with strangers. I figure that if I scare them off, it means they're too lame to hang out with me anyway.
I once picked up someone who became my boyfriend with the conversation starter, "I'm so hot, my cousin tried to fuck me."
And, apparently, the guy interested in me at the moment found me intriguing when I sat down next to him and promptly insulted his university degree. Nice!
I'm just thankful the clown was out for the count. Creepy.
ErinH
okay, now i'm really thinking about duck genitals way too much. that was really quite an interesting article your linked to!
Love the photos...they turned out way better than mine!