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Sleep-deprived mom Genevieve<\/strong> barely has time to shower, let alone think about Halloween. Her neighbor Brad<\/strong>, however, lives for it \u2014 every year, his house turns into a full-blown haunted carnival.<\/p>\n One morning, Genevieve steps outside, twins in tow, to find her car covered in eggs<\/strong>. Furious, she marches to Brad\u2019s door \u2014 only for him to smirk and admit, \u201cYeah, I did it. Your car blocks the view of my decorations.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Too exhausted to fight, she walks away, but later that night, while rocking a baby to sleep, an idea hits her. If Brad\u2019s ego runs on attention, she\u2019ll hit him where it hurts.<\/p>\n The next day, she \u201cinnocently\u201d suggests he upgrade his setup with some fancy fog machines and projectors \u2014 the kind with terrible reviews<\/strong>. Predictably, Brad takes the bait.<\/p>\n Come Halloween night, his yard turns into a circus. The fog machine sprays water, the ghost projector flickers like a bad cartoon, and his giant inflatable Frankenstein collapses in front of a laughing crowd. Teenagers start pelting his house with eggs \u2014 poetic justice.<\/p>\n The next morning, Brad shows up at Genevieve\u2019s door, deflated and embarrassed. He apologizes, mumbling, \u201cDidn\u2019t realize how hard it is for you with the twins.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Genevieve just smiles. \u201cFunny,\u201d she says, \u201chow things have a way of balancing out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sleep-deprived mom Genevieve barely has time to shower, let alone think about Halloween. Her neighbor Brad, however, lives for it \u2014 every year, his house turns into a full-blown haunted carnival. One morning, Genevieve steps outside, twins in tow, to find her car covered in eggs. Furious, she marches to Brad\u2019s door \u2014 only …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8262,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8260\/revisions\/8262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}