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Here's a scary Halloween story for all you kids!

For those who don't know, I work at the mall. Something else you might not know is that I *hate* those full-body animal costumes usually found at amusement parks or worn to promote a store. I was at work one day when me and another girl I work with noticed someone dressed up in one of those animal costumes (a lion) promoting the Camacho auto sale outside. This sort of thing isn't out of the ordinary. During the summer sometimes there's someone who dresses up as an antelope in overalls to promote the fair and sometimes the robin from Red Robin cruises around the mall. Well, me and said girl kind of duck behind a fixture because our fear is that this creature might see us and want to come inside the store to say hello. One of the guys we work with runs out and high-fives the lion and then motions for him to come inside the store. Oh shit. We run into the "cashwrap" area (where the counter and registers are) and the lion follows us over trying to get hugs from us. We are cowering in the corner not looking. We don't want to see the lion. We don't want to hug the lion. We want the lion to leave. The lion then tells us "Oh, it's ok. I'm not scary. See? I'll take off the mask." He takes is animal head off. Bad idea. He's short, really pale, old and completely bald. The best way to describe this man is if Freddy Kruger and Gollum had a baby. Scariest day at the mall. EVER. SRSLY.