37 - 2/26/11 - Marshside Storytime III

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Christopher Setterlund

37 – 2/26/11

Marshside Storytime III

Y.M.C.A. – c.1999

            Halloween is always a fun time, no matter what age you are.  As a kid it was always the best to get dressed up and go Trick or Treating.  Once you get too old for the candy it does not mean that the Halloween festivities have to end.  For the longest time Halloween was one of the most fun days at the old Marsh.

            Nearly everyone would dress up in various costumes.  Kristin was/is a cat every year to keep up with consistency.  I can remember Dana piercing both ears one year which was pretty wild.  I myself have been a sort of tropical skeleton, and also went one year wearing my old Target uniform which I should have burned and then thrown in the dumpster but that’s a separate story.

            Through all of the years though nothing tops Halloween of 1999 when four of us came up with the best costumes ever: The Village People.  The four of us were myself, Maui, Dana, and Remi and man it was classic.

            I was the cop complete with a gun and handcuffs.  Maui was the Indian complete with a fake ass for some reason.  There is a great photo somewhere of my jamming the gun in his fake ass, of course I seem to not be able to find it at this time, you’ll just have to imagine it in your mind.  How warped is the image?

            Dana went as the construction worker tool belt and all and Remi was the biker with the leather jacket and sweet shades.  I completed the outfit by buying the Village People greatest hits CD so that we could play ‘YMCA’ in the kitchen for everyone’s amusement.

            The day was all set as I worked the day with Maui, Dana, and Remi working the night.  Once we were all there together there was only one more thing for us to do.  Go out and dance around to ‘YMCA’ in the dining room for the amusement of our customers.

            We got a huge round of applause and I’d like to say it felt like being a rock star but being applauded by mostly elderly people while dancing to the Village People is more of a male strip club nightmare rather than being a rock star.  Still, it was fun, and it was the best Halloween at the old Marsh.  Anybody else have Marsh Halloween stories to add?  Feel free to share!

3 of the 4 Village People, before Dana had arrive, he's probably glad he missed these photos.