UIowa Halloween Nightmares

From terrible costumes to party crashing parents the odds of Halloween falling on the Friday of Parents Weekend this year proved to both a blessing and curse this past weekend in Iowa City.

While some students had nothing more on their minds than dressing up and getting trashed, others had to worry about the impending doom of their parents stopping by to “check in” on one of the craziest weekends of the year.

Before the kickoff to the weekend, students started taking to social media to express their opinions of the two events merging on one weekend. 

“Heard one of the guys in my lecture say that his mom and girlfriend are dressing up as sexy cheetahs for Halloween…well, happy parents weekend!”

                                                                                                                      -Anonymous Yik Yak post

Moms and girlfriends dressing up in matching sexy costumes were the least of Iowa’s problems when you hear some of the other crazy shenanigans that went on around Iowa City. Here are some of the best worst Halloween stories we’ve heard from your fellow Hawkeyes this year.

Cougar Calling

“I was at a party off campus on Halloween. It was all fun and games until this guy showed up with a lady that was obviously like, twice his age. I over heard him talking to some of his guy friends that he had met up with and he was saying it was a mom he had met up with downtown. I was so weirded out! Worst part about it was that this lady was dressed like a ‘sexy nurse’. She was a total s***; no ifs, ands, or buts about it.

Anyways, after a while one of my friends finally shows up and I immediately have to tell her about the cougar on the loose. I took her to the living room to show her…The look on her face—pure terror. She ran from my side over to the lady and grabbed her arm.

My friend started screaming at the lady, but it was hard for me to over hear what she was saying because of the music. Come to find out later that night that the lady was actually my friend’s aunt. Her aunt was there toying around with a college guy…talk about awkward. Needless to say, Saturday night she stayed in with her family and kept a close eye on her ‘A.I.L.F.’”

The Zombie Killed My Vibe

“I think the worst part of this weekend was when I went home with a guy I had been talking to for a while. We met up at a party and decided to go home earlier than planned. We got back to his apartment and were hanging out in his room…you know where we were headed to next. All of a sudden his bedroom door swings open and his roommate dressed like a f*&@ing zombie barges in and jumps on the bed between us. He was so wasted and wasn’t making any sense.

Long story short, he ended up throwing up on the end of the bed and passing out on the floor…The guy I was with totally called it quits and told me I should probably just leave. I had to walk from Kinnick to Gilbert Street! What a terrible night.”

My Mom, the Wing Man

“My parents came in for parents weekend and although I was super excited to see them, I wished it could have been any other weekend of the year. My roommates talked me into bringing them downtown with us on Friday night. We were at Brothers and everything was fine until my mom started trying to be “cool” and telling all my guy friends how cute I was. It was so embarrassing. She kept saying things like, ‘Boys how cute does she look in her costume?!’ or ‘I can’t believe how well you pulled off that costume, honey’. I don’t know if she was trying to be my wing girl, but her comments definitely made the entire night completely uncomfortable. I tried to play it off, but my friends gave me crap for it the rest of the night. I’ll have to admit that having my parents here this weekend definitely cramped my style.”

Calling Me Out, Hard

“I usually don’t go out on the weekends because I don’t drink, but my boyfriend and a few of his friends convinced me to go to a party with them. I went as Ariel and wore a purple bandeau as a top and a green mini skirt. I thought it was a super cute costume—that is until I got outside and realized it was like, a billion degrees below zero. I held it together for the couple blocks that we had to walk to the party, but once we got there my boyfriend’s best friend came up to us and decided to ‘nonchalantly’ point out the fact that I was nipping like a MF. The whole group of guys started cracking up and I had to cover my chest for a good 15 minutes before returning back to normal. Thanks again, Kyle.”

One Mickey, Two Minnies

“A couple of my friends and I went to this party that a guy I met on Tinder was throwing. When I got there one of my friends realized that another girl was wearing the same costume as me (we were both sexy Minnie Mouse). Of course, I tried to avoid her through most of the night and focused my attention on my Tinder man. We had been flirting a lot of the night. I left to go to the bathroom and when I got back I saw him clearly putting the moves on the other girl in the Minnie Mouse outfit. I went to confront him and they both looked at me like I had two heads. He finally admitted that he thought that I was the other Minnie Mouse who, come to find out, he had also met on Tinder. Aside from the costume and both of us having dark hair, we didn’t even look alike! Obviously the night did not go as planned… Needless to say I stopped talking to him on Tinder. ”

Surely there were dozens of other awkward and outrageous things that went on this past weekend, but let’s give a huge shout out to those who were brave enough to share their own crazy experiences. It’s not hard to assume that next Halloween will be just as or even more crazy than this one, but whatever happens, you can be sure it will be celebrated the best way there is–Hawkeye style!

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