A couple of my spouses co-workers invited us to go out for drinks on Halloween. Once upon time I would have prettied myself up for the event, but getting prettied up when you've lived FT for several years really is kind of anti climactic, so I opted instead to sew my own costume and went as a... skunk. The black outfit itself was pretty easy to put together, but my tail ended up being a royal pain in the butt. Reminder to self: Next Halloween, NO FAUX FUR.
Anyway, we started the evening easy, giving out candy. We really stocked up this year, but only had 3 kids show up at the door. That's ok though, because I planned accordingly and only purchased chocolate candy this year... the kids loss is my gain. Yay for lots of leftover chocolate candy!
About 9pm we headed out to meet the others at a local dive bar. The place was slightly busier than normal, with 1 or 2 open tables. As we make our way towards the closest table I turned, side swiped a vampire, and the tail I worked so hard on ripped off and fell to the floor. I bent over to pick it up, and while bent over heard a voice next to me say... "Hi... nice tail." I stood to face a really cute, well dressed guy. I blushed, thanked him with a grin, then asked "it's Halloween... where's your costume?" His response: He held up his left hand, showed me a gold wedding band, then told me that this year he was pretending to be a faithful husband. OMFG By that point the rest of my party realized i was missing, and my spouse was working her way back to me. He then looked at my left hand (I wear a diamond wedding/engagement set) and quipped "Oh wow... I thought I was the only one who would ever come up with the faithful spouse idea!" OMFG x2. We shared a few quick laughs before I got dragged away to our table, but a few minutes later the waitress delivered to me a glass of wine, smiled and told me my friend had sent it. This wasn't my first experience flirting with a guy, but certainly the most fun encounter to date.
