User blog comment:Raidra/Creepy Craft for Children/@comment-24040907-20141205001234/@comment-24040907-20141205023352

Yeah. I may have inadvertently scared the living daylight out of two of my neighbors with my own mask one night. They were two 20-somethings going out for a night of clubbing when they encountered me taking out the trash while wearing the very mask I don in the above photograph.

Imagine you are going outside, in the cold, in the dead of night, and you see me. I'm wearing a tattered skull T-shirt, outrageously purple slacks and a Pandemic Response Helmet, dragging a man-sized garbage bag in my wake.

One of the girls saw me, did a double-take, and screamed before turning and running right into a glass door. I kid you not. And I just stood there like an idiot, before removing my mask to reveal a dopey smile.

"So you like my mask?" I inquire.

But don't worry, the girls thought it was funny. I apologized and they told me it was fine because that was hilarious. I walked them out to their car like a gentleman, and then walked back inside with quite the adrenaline rush. I am just so lucky one of them didn't pepper-spray me or something.

Not that it would affect me in a gas mask ;)