Like every year since we moved to the neighborhood, Johnny had been so excited about Halloween that by October 15th he had bought everything for his party and perfected his costume at an excessive level. He was obsessed counting the days in the calendar (literally... like, marking with X’s every day obsessed). You see, the neighbors always gave a jack-o-lantern to the best party of the block and he was determined to win his 5th in a row.
He kept saying how no one would ever beat his costume that day and how ridiculous we were going to look next to him with our “without imagination” ones (even though he had no idea what we were going to wear).
Then one day talking with the guys, we realized we’d had it with his Halloween parties. No one ever could have fun in them because Johnny kept rubbing his costume and his perfectly planned party at everyone’s face. Then suddenly Mark said “it would be so funny if Johnny’s calendar was from last year, that way he’d throw the party one day before the actual date and we would be left alone with our costumes on Halloween’s night”.
Poor Johnny, Mark hadn’t even finished talking when half the guys had ran out to the closet hoping they'd find an old calendar that didn’t get to the garbage can at the beginning of the year.
Unluckily for Johnny, we found an old calendar at a box and dedicated the rest of the day to switch every photo from his calendar to the old one (it would be too obvious if he’d found a calendar with the wrong picture), and drawing the X’s as alike as we could. Then we told everyone he’d invited to act as if Halloween was one day before the actual date.
Everyone was so excited about the fact that this time we had the chance to get back at him for his annoying obsession with Halloween, that before we realized it was "Halloween day". The night came and as no surprise Johnny spent all night bragging about his amazing costume and saying how he’d win the jack-o-lantern prize this time too.
The next day Johnny had spent all day cleaning after the enormous party he’d thrown, so focused on keeping every single thing as a trophy, that he didn’t realize when it got dark and there were more people outside than the usual.
The bell rang and when he came out, there we were all dressed up in our costumes yelling “treat or trick! Open your present!”
He was so confused that he just nodded and went for his present, which almost made him pass out when he discovered that inside was a note saying “surprise! you’ve been tricked, Halloween is today” and a little jack-o-lantern at the bottom of the box.
“Relax Johnny” we said… “At least you got a jack-o-lantern for the best Halloween party on mischief night”.