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The cowboy boots, Eddie wore, echoed through the empty hallways of the modern school building. He found the room where the haunted house committee was meeting, grabbed a name tag and quickly took a seat in the back of the room. A casually, but well dressed man stood at the chalkboard. Ideas bounced around the sixteen volunteers. Some were too elaborate to be feasible. Frank wrote and erased ideas. A pattern emerged and Eddie thought it was funny, All these educated people and none of them know what scares people.
Frank had narrowed the list down to four ideas.“ Mr. Dodge, would you mind being in charge of the haunted house? All of these are your ideas,” Frank pointed at the list.“ Obviously you have a vision of the scenes you would like to create.” Frank surmised to Eddie.“ I get four classrooms to create a haunted house?” Eddie asked. Frank nodded.“ Can we send the students home with a list of things they might have around the house we could borrow?” Eddie continued.“ What would you like us to put on that list?” Frank asked, and waved for Eddie to join him at the front of the room.“ Strobe lights, black lights and any costumes that go along with the plan,” Eddie said, moving toward the front of the classroom.“ I think we should use guides to take groups of eight to twelve people through each room,” he added.
They began a discussion on what the guides should wear and their purpose. Attire became black shoes, shirt and pants. White, pancake make-up was mentioned and agreed upon. The Halloween party was to start at six o’ clock and end at ten. There would be free games, a bake sale and they decided to charge one dollar to go through the haunted house. The money would go to the music department for new sheet music. The session broke up after everyone exchanged phone numbers.
Eddie drove home, excited to tell Tanya about his evening. She handed him a small pocket notebook.“ It sounds like you had a stimulating meeting, Mr. In-charge. You need to keep notes, and those phone numbers together.” She kissed him and thanked him, then kissed him again. " Did I mention how proud I am to see you so involved in this project?” " Ummmm... I believe I...," was all Tanya allowed him say!