Spiderman comes to Commerce
My story begins two years ago when I discovered a website where I could spend about $40 and order my very own spandex superhero costume. The selection was pretty awesome, too. There was Superman, Spiderman, Green Lantern, The Flash and even a few Power Ranger ones. Despite all of this awesomeness, I didn't take advantage of the site that year for two reasons: 1) I was still a bit chubby and I didn't need anything that would emphasize that; and 2) I didn't have any money to spend.
Skip ahead to last year. I was living with my best friend and we started thinking at the beginning of September about what we wanted to be for Halloween. There was going to be a party in his hometown and a bunch of people had already decided to go as superheroes. Then, I remembered the site from the previous year and I knew what had to be done. Unfortunately, the selection had been trimmed a bit and both of our first choice costumes were no longer available. We were a bit deflated, but we decided to settle for me being Spiderman and he being Black Suit Spiderman. We ordered them that night because we were so excited. We even paid for expedited shipping.
This is where things become less awesome and begin to turn depressing.
We each received e-mails from the company producing the costumes around the beginning of October saying that our costumes were being shipped and we could expect to receive them the week before Halloween. It was cutting it a bit close, but we didn't care as long as we get them in time. One thing I should probably mention…the company was based in China. So, needless to say, we didn't get our costumes until the week AFTER Halloween. We were disappointed, to say the least.
So, can you guess what I'm going as this year? Go ahead. Guess. That's right. I'm going as the damn Spiderman! No more slipping on my costume and just chilling in my apartment, or taking out the trash. I'll tell you what else: I'm going to get my money's worth this year. I plan on attending not one, not two, but THREE separate Halloween parties! And that's not all. Basically, between now and Nov. 1, I will be spending all of my free time "Spiderman-ing" it up. I'll be climbing into trees and jumping down on "evil-doers" at night. I'll be climbing anything and everything that I can. I am going to be spraying so much webbing at everyone that Commerce will be forever unclean.
My spidey senses are telling me this is going to be a good Halloween.
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