It was fun to watch my good friend, Terri Jo Ryan (who is the Features writer for our local newspaper, The Waco Tribune-Herald) become a Zombie through the talent of a make-up artist this past Halloween.
One Halloween, when my son, Bobby (now thirty-three years old), was about eleven, I took him and his best buddy, Adam Scruggs, to Keen's Magic Shop in Waco. Mr. Keen had been a professional make-up artist to the movie stars in Hollywood, California, and was an extremely skilled artisan.
Bobby and Adam had a lot of fun looking through the store at the costumes and the gag tricks and so on. Bobby was especially fascinated by how Mr. Keen could make a disquise or a fake nose or chin--whatever you could dream up!
We decided it would be fun to let Bobby be "decorated" in some manner, so he decided on having a fake wound--a horrific-looking gash---applied to his right cheek. When Mr. Keen had finished, I was astounded to see how real it looked--just like an actual awful wound, dripping blood and gore!
Bobby and Adam were thrilled that it looked so real and got a big kick out of Bobby hanging out of the passenger side of the pickup all the way home-- almost causing wrecks by drivers on the road doing a double-take when they saw the "wound."
When we pulled up in my mother's driveway, Bobby stayed in the truck. Mama came to the door of the house, and when we didn't come on in, she came out. She saw Bobby still in the truck, so he started moaning and said, "Granny, help me get out of the truck!" She walked over to help him out, asking him what was the matter. About that time, she saw the huge bloody gash on his cheek and nearly fainted!
By the time we all got to her, Granny was laughing and shaking her finger at Bobby. She said that seeing the gash really scared her at first, but knowing we would have let her know right away if something had really happened, she knew it couldn't be real! Chiding Bobby for fooling her, she chased him and Adam into the house. Granny loved a good joke and thought this one was very funny. There weren't many grannies with a fine sense of humor like Marie!
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