Couple of true stories

(1) Years ago when my grandfather was alive, he'd go to the apple orchard and hand pick a few bushels of apples. He'd get these huge apples and would fish around for a big one when those little kids would come up. The lady next door to him was a retired schoolteacher who would dress up as a witch and give out homemade cookies to the kids. This little tot comes up on the porch after visting Miss Pendly and opens his bag up..looked all of 3-4 yrs old. Gramps reaches in his big ol sack and pulls out one of them bottom buster apples (the ones that are so big they'll bust the bottom out of your bag). He drops that thing in and this little guy looks down..looks up and back down..and starts to cry. Gramps being hard of hearing just smiles (I mean its alittle kid, they cry at a lot of things) and he goes dragging his bag off the porch just wailing. His mom looks in the bag and talks to the boy. He tells her that that old man busted his cookie and that's why he was cryin!

(2) As a rule I wont have anything that pops up suddenly. I thinking that if I did..someone trips...falls...gets hurt...I am liable. But that doesn't stop me from having slow moving props. I have this spider that crawls up and down slowly (t hink I got it at Big Lots). Had this big ol lady come dragging his grandkids up once year, telling them that everything was fake and all. She comes thru the arbor I have and when she gets close by. the spider touches her. She screams and takes off running backwards, leaving her grandkids there. Hollering and screaming waving her hands and arms...it was hilarious. Her grandkids just come up..get their treat and leave, Granny meantime was on the sidewalk, telling people that "there is a real haint in dat house, it nearly cut my haid offn my shoulder"