Show COMMENT fo COMMENT 1 i How TOJ To J 1 Haunt The 1 j Haunted I ff I r. r IK li i 1 N i by Robert A. A Rob Roberg erg 1 r 0 Associate Editor k F The job of a person writing an edir editorial edi edi- r- r tonal is to present the reader with an ana a official opinion usually that of the paper The job of a columnist is to simply bring the reader his own It opinion This in case you haven't guessed is a column The subject m matter is sometimes serious and sometimes not depending depend depend- ing usually on the mood of the columnist This week I have the privilege of bringing you a subject of ofa a less serious bent although the people involved take it very seriously Last week this paper relayed some information concerning the annual rage at this time of year that being haunted houses These are The Institute of Terror on south and west The March of Dimes Haunted House South State the Haunted Old Mill So Big Cottonwood Canyon Road and the Macabre Mansion at the Triad rr s J J Center I decided to travel to these local haunts with the intention of subjecting subject subject- ing myself to the terror that they promised I was not disappointed Each one of them offered approximately approximately approximately twenty minutes of good entertainment entertainment enter- enter not including the time spent in the lines Depending on what you want out of the evening there are four modes in which you can go One is alone and macho if you are a guy and want to check the situation out I use guy here because I have yet to see a girl go through alone The second is together and macho if you and some friends want to see how many of the actors you can scare The third is together and falling all over the place if some girls want to get together for mutual support I might add that this is the favorite mode of 1 the as las gets it-gets it gets the gets the best results for them And last but definitely not the least is together and hug city Guys if you dont don't mind having the breath squeezed out of oft you coupled with losing your eardrums take a girl If however the girl you are contemplating contemplating contemplating con con- taking bites instead of 1 I witnessed screams like one couple at one of the houses by all means keep her away from this form of entertainment One last word Even though these houses stay open until 1000 on weekdays and 1100 on weekends go early All four houses depend heavily on live actors and the majority of these are young After spending a afew afew few hours scaring the daylights out of customers man many of t these ese young ghouls are known to ask patrons stupid questions like what time lime is isit it Questions of this sort tend to spoil the show It v |