Thread: You might be a home haunter if.....

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queenohalloween, not intended as picking on you, but what's a "PHYCO" and why's it bad?


I want a hearse.

Funny thread, may I add:

You might be a home haunter if...

1) Your house in England is for sale and you have a viewing. The viewers start chatting to you and it turns out that they are friends of a friend. Instead of talking to you about buying the house, they start telling you that they know EVERYTHING about your Halloween parties and decorations.

2) You are leaving the country and instead of everybody saying that they'll miss you, they say things like "Oh no! What are we going to do now for Halloween?" or "The village will never be the same without your decorations on Oct. 31"

It can also work the other way, Wicked.
You are so much into Halloween that a fair number of the citizens of your small town SUGGEST that you LEAVE TOWN!
"You should go to California or someplace, where you can have a carreer in working for Disney or special effects in the movies." (Subtext= "Get the hell out of town, we don't care where you go, just leave!")
"Do you know anybody in those businesses? Do have any phone numbers of people out there I could call?"
"Err? ...No."
In other words they knew nothing about anything, but when has this ever stopped people from telling other people "What they should DO!?"
Milton Bradley's Game of" LIFE?" Have at it, just don't let know-nothings determine your life's plans.
Of course the population of this town has always been largely elderly, maybe they actually meant-well?
It sure didn't always feel like it though.

I do have the "Last Laugh", I'm still here and running a Haunted House , open almost every night of the year for fun and tours!!

lol

GW, I think you're right: lots of the villagers were happy to see me leave town. The year I found some good skeletons and hung them from the tree was too much for them! How could such a standard prop cause such discord in the village?

In the meantime, are you hiring? I did complete my monster training for the Jaycees haunted house in the 1980's. I'm enthusiastic and can make my own costumes!

I can almost always use good, enthusiastic help here.
I have fun, but then, it's my place, if you know what I mean?
I have given employees that I have had here tremendous freedom to be creative, unfortunately many just can't be.
This last season I did have a number of very good helpers here who were very creative, showed up when they were supposed to ans impressed the customers too!
Too often I would hire someone and they would try to be "ME" and do a tour, I would tell them to be your own person, communicate in a manner that you feel comfortable doing. This year it happened!!
Amazing!
A news story within the last year stated that most people's biggest fear is that of "Public Speaking"!? (Which must have pulled ahead of having your entire body pulled apart by 20 psychos weilding vice-grips?)
I would end up with a bunch here who were shy?
I do have some "Grunt" tasks here which need to be done during tours, I could find all the "Grunts" I usually needed, but alot of them wouldn't even come out of their shells long enough to say, "Follow me." Or "This way."

I'm cracking up now, thinking of Marty Feldman's Igor from Young Frankenstein "Walk this way" then immitating the walk...

You're right, though, about public speaking. It really scares people. Are your employees in costume when they give tours? If so, I'd have thought that it would be a bit of play acting and you could really get into character and the surroundings. At the end of the day, the people there for the tours are probably (usually?) fun crowds and enthusiasts themselves.

Regardless, public speaking is a tough thing to overcome; imagining the audience in their underwear does not work!

If I couldn't even get them to say, "Follow me", what kind of luck do you think I had trying to get them to put on make up or a mask?
This is a town of 1,700 retired farmers, fairly conservative. This country has the oldest , average population of any country in the entire state of Illinois, so if anyone thinks that "good help" is hard to find where you live...come here and look around!
I also have had a few people who at first seemed like they knew how to "act" but then I find out there are "Acting" all the time! Sometimes they act nice, sometimes they act crazy, now if they could control it , they could be usefully employed here, but....

"WACKY WACKY!"

Everytime you get in the shower you hear the Phsyco theme play.

It took you 3 weeks to design the circuit to make it play the Psycho theme when someone gets into the shower.

There is a real easy way to make a circuit switch on via water flow and still be extremely safe about it.
In the early days of the first garbage disposals they wanted everyone to run water with the dumping of garbage, via disposal, so they made brass switches that were installed in the water line under the sink , this was a simple flow switch that completed a cicuit when the water moved upwards inside of the pipe and the switch contacts were rated for the full 120 Volts.
This made it so the disposal couldn't run unless there was water being run into the sink.
These devices attach into the water line by using a sweat joint or a flared end, usually or sometimes a pipe thread.