Halloween in Brooklyn

In honor of Halloween, I decided to post another memory jogger. Do you remember this little episode?

In the olden days, one of the common Halloween pranks was “soaping windows.” You would take a bar of soap and draw all over the windows, forcing the occupants to wash the windows if they ever wanted to see through them again. This was generally reserved for the stingy souls who did not “treat” the trick-or-treaters.” Ron made an exception, in the case of the Meers family, deciding to soap their windows on general principle because, Shelia Meers, who was about Ron's age, was mean and nasty.

We knocked on the door and yelled, “Trick-or-treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat!” The Meers complied, but when they closed the door, Ron went to work on their windows with a bar of soap. As we were walking away from the house, evil Shelia Meers began screaming, “They soaped our windows!” We fled the scene of the crime, by running across the street and hiding behind the mobile homes. We were home-free until Anna started crying, giving up our location. Mrs. Meers began screaming threats about calling the Marshal and having us all put in jail and Anna, being only six or seven years old, lost it.

Ron tried to settle things down by offering to clean the windows. Because we were all in costume, Mrs. Meers didn’t know who we were. And even though she was screaming at us, she was not brave enough to pull Ron’s mask off. “You was treated!” she yelled, as Ron cleaned the windows. She continued her diatribe while Ron was washing and we were watching. When we finally walked away, Ron told us that he was holding the mask on his face by biting it with his teeth.

Chime in...Do you remember?