The night 'Freddy' got me

(Today I'm joining the madness on Mama Kat's blog for her writing workshop. Easy stuff, since A. I needed someone to help me come up with an idea for a post, and B. I really want one of those Flips!!)

Describe a favorite Halloween costume or moment you wish you had on video.

I'm not sure this was necessarily my favorite, but definitley my most memorable, and it would be amazing to watch on video now.

I was 12 or 13, going on 18, or so I thought. I really, really wanted to watch Nightmare on Elm Street, but my parents both said no way. After begging and pleading for a couple days, my dad finally said, Fine.

My father said he would watch some with me. I was so excited and a bundle of nerves. The images of that movie still haunt me. I was curled up on the couch with a blanket over my head, peeking through the holes, wondering why on earth I had wanted to see this movie.

The movie was coming to an end, and my dad said he was tired and was going to bed. He told me to turn the movie off when it was over, and go right to my room. I still remember the sing-song of girls playing jump rope at the end...1, 2 Freddy's coming for you, 3, 4, better lock the door, 5, 6, grab your crucifix, and so on.... (shudder).

I jumped up, flipped the movie off and ran up the stairs, scared out of my mind, to the kitchen and then crawled up more stairs in the dark to the floor our bedrooms were. (Just to get an idea of the layout of the top floor, there was my bedroom to the left of the stairs, a bathroom across the hall, my brother's room next to mine, and my parent's by the bedroom.)

As I crawled up the last stair, my father, my loving, 'Oh sure, you can watch the movie,' 'Oh, I'm tired and going to bed' father, scared the beegeezus out of me by jumping out off the dark bathroom and lunging at me. I was so terrified I couldn't even scream; I made a little squeak and started to shake. My dad's laughter woke up the rest of the family. I didn't live that prank down for quite awhile. And haven't watched the movie since.

(Edited to Add: This is actually one of my favorite memories of my dad. He was one of the kindest, gentlest people I've ever known, and this was just in his fun nature. I laugh and smile about it now.)