Sick Pumpkin

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

OK, there's this thing people sometimes do around Halloween, where you take a pumpkin and carve an unhappy face and then you take the innards of the pumpkin -- the seeds and goopy stringy orange stuff -- and pull it out through the mouth, so it looks like the pumpkin is barfing. (example)

Someone on Holland Street in the Davis Square area did this last month around Halloween, and had the said pumpkin on their front step. Was it you?

I just ask because my daughter, who is 2 and a half, goes to the Kindercare daycare in Davis Square and they apparently saw this pumpkin on their daily walk one day. And my daughter canNOT stop talking about it. It has been like a month and she still will say, "I saw a sick pumpkin when I was out walking. It was frowing up!" And when we're en route to drop her off at daycare she'll say "I don't wanna go for a walk and see a sick pumpkin!" Her teachers and I have been telling her repeatedly that the pumpkin is all better now ;) but it isn't sinking in yet.

Anyway, just thought you might like to know that your pumpkin made QUITE an impression on at least one local 2-year-old. ;)

Comments

[obie119.livejournal.com]

That is an awesome story - thanks for sharing!! :)
(it wasn't me, by the way, but I've seen the sick pumpkins)

[anomie666.livejournal.com]

LOL!

I thought this was going to go something like "my daughter has been having nightmares about being chased by that poor sick pumpkin and I thought you should know that I totally didn't appreciate that in the neighborhood".

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

Heh. Au contraire, I think the sick pumpkin is hilarious. And you never know what random thing will stick in a kid's head and freak her out, so whatever. :)

[opn.livejournal.com]

I don't think this was on Holland St., but it was in the Davis Square neighborhood. My boyfriend sent me a cell pic when he saw these pumpkins:

(http://photobucket.com)

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

Great picture! :) I don't actually know what street it was on. The daycare teachers said Holland, but they could have been misremembering.

[lizzyclean.livejournal.com]

I actually saw a few different houses with these pumpkins in the Davis/Teele neighborhoods and there was definitely one on Holland. They were awesome.