Thursday Threesome

::"Sasquatch" and "Haunted Homeland"::

Onesome: Sasquatch-- Big Foot? Yeti? "Harry and the Hendersons"? Maybe? No way? Sure, we have the entire family over for dinner every Thanksgiving? Whaddaya' think?

I'm not quite sure what this question is actually asking, so I'll just riff. When I was 16 and working as a shelver in my local library, there was a guy who came in every evening whom we called "Sasquatch." He was tall and bearded with longish stringy hair (I think now we might call him Professor Snape on a Bad Beard Day). He didn't walk; he loped. Or sloped. And we always knew he was in the building, not because of a 'sighting' but because if we were shelving in the row next to him, we could smell him. It was a particularly funky smell: b.o. and damp and woodsmoke. Now I know it as the smell of homelessness. He didn't smell of alcohol, but he still managed to scare the crap out of the entire staff, even the adults, because his eyes were Charles Manson eyes. He never spoke. He never looked directly at anyone (thank God). In the years since, I've wondered who he really was, where he is now, why he was homeless (this was in the years before homelessness really was noticed by pop culture). Was he really as crazy as he seemed?

Twosome: and Haunted-- It's All Hallow's Eve next week; are you haunted by little creatures in your neighborhood extorting goodies from you? ...and do you do your part to provide an entertaining experience for them? ...or do you lock the doors, kill the lights and hide from the horde?

We are very haunted by short extortionists in our neighborhood. I hate Halloween when there's no kids around; it's a waste of energy. So I really enjoy living in a neighborhood FULL of kids.

We don't do anything but a couple of pumpkins in terms of decor. My brother goes apeshit at his house: decor, sound effects, the whole nine yards. Then again, he's mental.

Threesome: Homeland-- ghosts and spectres: do you have any local stories of 'haunted' places. ...or are there roads you grandmother told you to never travel alone, especially when the moon is full? Just askin'...

Nope. No freaky family stories about hauntings, and if there is a haunted house in our vicinity here, I haven't heard about it.