halloween
Thursday, October 31st, 2002
The story of the night was Peter’s. He was at a pumpkin-carving party on the weekend, and a friend chiselling out the final details of his sculpted squash sent his knife right through the ball of his thumb. Ow. He pulled out the knife and started spraying arterial blood about the place.
Peter took him to the emergency room. The doctor took one look and said: “Pumpkin?”