One of my fondest memories of Eddie and I was invovled during Halloween of 1986. I was in the first grade, while Eddie was in the fourth. During the Halloween season, our elementary school gave the option for the students to dress up in their costumes and have a class party. I opted to bring mine, as did others in my class.
In 1986, Halloween actually fell on a Friday, so I was anxious to get home and start trick or treating that evening. I rush home once school let out around 2:30pm and did whatever it was I did during those time (probably watched television) and was finally ready to be taken out to go trick-or-treating. Before we headed out, Eddie asked where my costume was. To my dismay, I had forgotten my costume at the school! We run over to the school to find out that the doors had already been locked and there would be no way for me to get in.
I can't remember for sure, but I can only assume I was very distraught about not having a costume to go trick-or-treating in. So, Eddie seeing how sad I was about it decided to help me out. We went home and he started to cut out a mask from card board and colored in the mask with purple crayola marker. He then went over to an old box withiin our porch and brought out a beige corduroy brimmed hat that our father used to wear. With those two pieces he told me that I can go as a cowboy bandit. I was happy that Eddie had helped me out and we proceeded to go trick-or-treating at the local corner store, Tooty's.
It wasn't until last week that I remembered this. Even though I know Eddie saw me as an annoyance when we were kids (as he had every right to), he still cared about me a lot to help me whenever possible, just so his little brother didn't feel disappointed.