Just Clowning

For Halloween my eighth grade year I dressed up as clown.  I am not sure whose idea it was (probably Mom's).  I used Mom and Dad's clown costumes (which are the real deal).  I can remember pulling up to the school and not seeing a single kid dressed up for Halloween and I freaked.  I thought that either my Mom had mistaken and it wasn't the right day to dress up (Brady did that the same year and came dressed as a woman) or she was playing a trick on me.  After some talking and coercing mom convinced me to get out of the car and go to class.  I was freaked out.  Eventually I saw some other kids that were dressed up and I didn't feel so much like the village idiot.  Well to make a long story short, just about everyone loved the costume and I won the school's costume contest.  Thank you Mom for teaching me to have courage.  I think that day helped me to be such a stellar student at the high school graduation ceremony (that embarrassed the stuff out of Dad as he gave me my diploma).