The Unofficial Rules of the Halloween Store.
There is always more glow-in-the-dark spiderweb.
Amid my search for a full-time job, I took a seasonal job at a pop-up Halloween store.
It was so much fun! I was surrounded by the vibes of my favorite holiday, and I have plenty of flexibility to do interviews and research positions. It’s a fun working environment with sweet people.
Then there are the customers.
Most of them are super nice to neutral. But then there are the weirdos, creeps, and just people that do not know how to behave themselves. It’s a special brand of retail weirdness to listen to someone describe how they need a giant Halloween spider web to scrape their fish pond in a non-obvious way. Right. That plan involves absolutely no corpses whatsoever. Gotcha.
So out of duty, I wanted to advise the Internet on how to avoid being one of these people. It’s about to be peak Halloween season. Please, for the love of Samhain…
Do not scare your own children.
What kind of sicko scares their kid on purpose with Halloween props? A lot of people.
Some kids will laugh when they’re scared. But others will cry, shrink away, or just flat-out run. Their parents will try to convince them not…
