Halloween Story - Part II

So, off we go in R’s Mercury to steal pumpkins. N is riding shotgun while R drives (she hadn’t taught us to drive that car just yet. (Notice I said, “yet”)

We cruise down between the fields – we are in farmland central so there are several fields to choose from. The first field we came to looked like a pumpkin patch. We stopped the car and got out to investigate. And, one of us stepped into…

…..a watermelon! Wrong field.

Back in the car we cruise around for quite sometime until we pass a farmhouse with an old fashioned wagon in the front stocked full of pumpkins.

N – “The mega load! Let’s go!”
H- (who is, ironically, majoring in law enforcement) “No! There’s no cover, trees or nothing! It’s too out in the open! We’ll get caught!”
N- “No we won’t!”

Like she’s an authority on not getting caught……well, come to think of it……R and I decided to go with it.

H – “Well, I’m not going. This could hurt my reputation if we get caught”
R- “Your rep is already blown girlfriend!” Looking at me.
Me – looking puzzled thinking “whaaaat?”
H – turning red and saying “Just go! I’ll stay in the car and provide getaway if anyone comes.
R- You don’t know how to drive the car (just yet)

We park the car about 100 yards up the road and sneak in. The wagon is RIGHT in front of the house. The porch light is on. There are practically no trees for cover and there’s a barn about 200 feet from the house with a big utility light on shining down. This doesn’t look good. We might as well be in broad daylight, here!