Rudy had to go away for business the last two weeks of the month. He invited Gideon along, but Gideon’s work ethic and devotion to the gang at Elvis’s Vegas Sing-Along Bar made him want to stay behind, as difficult as that was.
Brett had put out pumpkins, witches, goblins, and bats way back on October first. Everyone was planning to come to the bar in costume on Halloween. The theme—if it could be called that—was “come as something that makes you happy.” Gideon decided to dress up as an angel. Putting something together with a white bed sheet from Good Will, a huge cardboard box from the bar for wings, and a hanger plus the gold tinsel garland he used at Christmastime for a halo, was no problem for someone so crafty. The whole gang was already there when he came down from his apartment ar
