costume ideas...

[Grog]

Am I just being oversensitive/nervous here?

I don't know. All of my cycling friends tought my costume was hilarious last year, and it got a few stories of car-bike encounter going.

If you have a friend who knows someone who died in a bike accident recently, it's probably not a good idea though.

[pyxichick]

Kimmyt,

I think you should do it. Halloween costumes are supposed to be SCARY and getting hit by a car qualifies as very scary!

Besides, just when you think you've crossed the line to bad taste, that's when you find out most people really have a sick sense of humor.

My BF wore a costume to my own halloween party a couple years ago that was in such bad taste, I was embarassed to have people see him. It turned out his costume was the hit of the party!

[Geonz]

We have a painfully recent fatality in these parts so, no, while I appreciated the humor... I wasn't going to do it. It cuts too close to home, here and now - but it's hard to tell when laughing is *exactly* what you need to do.
I can't find the homemade Jamaican skirt that has to be SOMEWHERE... I have every intention of riding out on my Gazelle, with its skirt guard. I'm going to keep in the Day of the Dead tradition, which - I'm going to check and make sure - I believeis to wear bright, festive clothes... perhaps that cape that belonged to my mother.

[Haudlady]

I am VERY tempted to dress up for my commute on Tuesday... maybe a short cape (I don't want to get tangled up!)... or wouldn't it be fun to make stripes on a shirt, put antenea (spelling?) on my helmet, and be a bee?

I'm just wondering - would I create a road hazard? I don't want to cause accidents!

[Geonz]

It's Hallowe'en so people won't be *totally* confused, but I have to say that when I wore my pig-ears-and-nose helmet cover in traffic, a jeep jumped the curb and another car drove all over the road doing a double take. I decided I'd take the thing *to* the ride and then put it on after that.