{"id":3925,"date":"2025-10-30T11:30:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/?p=3925"},"modified":"2025-12-11T11:36:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T19:36:51","slug":"hallowed-ween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/2025\/10\/hallowed-ween\/","title":{"rendered":"Hallowed Ween"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A story of Ye Olde Reed, from <a href=\"https:\/\/iris.reed.edu\/directory\/alum\/2a12NUsRo7nohKrkXPC5LAKfFQbWcI0om6RB3L7xXzLS3066TWGJgPi\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/iris.reed.edu\/directory\/alum\/2a12NUsRo7nohKrkXPC5LAKfFQbWcI0om6RB3L7xXzLS3066TWGJgPi\">Mark Mclean \u201970<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>One Halloween, back in the late sixties, several of us from our dorm set out in search of something to do.&nbsp; We soon found ourselves in the company of some other Reedies who were driving a station wagon full of pumpkins.&nbsp; (In those days, any pumpkins left unharvested by Halloween were considered up for grabs.)&nbsp; We sought out creative and novel applications for those pumpkins.&nbsp; Someone tossed one out the window as we sped down 122nd, which was (still is?) one long used car lot.&nbsp; A salesman was trying to make a late night sale to a respectable looking middle aged couple.&nbsp; The most prominent feature of the car in question was hubcaps that would have felt quite at home in Ben Hur&#8217;s chariot race.&nbsp; We can only speculate as to how the salesman&#8217;s pitch was affected by the sight of a pumpkin bounding across the sidewalk at near-relativistic velocity, finally coming to rest firmly impaled on the left front hubcap of the car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were assorted alarums and excursions in the night, including a moment of stark terror when a poorly aimed pumpkin became lodged firmly in the undercarriage of a police car.&nbsp; The officer apparently was unaware of this, and, to our great relief, drove off, leaving a long trail of shredded pumpkin on the pavement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eventually, our exhaustive research into the pointless and annoying deeds which can be performed using pumpkins was completed, the hour was late, and we still had a lot of pumpkins to get rid of.&nbsp; It was decided that the only politically correct solution to the problem was to unload the cargo at the front door of our friendly local draft board.&nbsp; Having accomplished that, we made good our escape, and went in search of what was left of a good night&#8217;s sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next evening, the front steps of the draft board appeared on the evening news.&nbsp; All was as we had left it, except that some dufus or dufi unknown had reduced the pumpkins, in situ, to a huge mound of pie filling.&nbsp; The final verdict on this episode was delivered by the local news anchorman, who solemnly intoned, &#8220;It&#8217;s the work of militants&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0Mark Mclean, Class of 1970<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A story of Ye Olde Reed, from Mark Mclean \u201970 One Halloween, back in the late sixties, several of us from our dorm set out in search of something to do.&nbsp; We soon found ourselves in the company of some other Reedies who were driving a station wagon full of pumpkins.&nbsp; (In those days, any &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/2025\/10\/hallowed-ween\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hallowed Ween<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2891,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[182,200,114],"class_list":["post-3925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-history","tag-pranks","tag-tradition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3938,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions\/3938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}