Young adult to receive Halloween scare by paying rent

Like turkey on the table on Thanksgiving or stockings hanging from the mantle on Christmas, Halloween doesn't feel quite right without at least one good scare. But while some are getting their fix through harmless pranks and horror movies, many young adults are coming to grips with living in what some may call a different sort of haunted house — a.k.a. a living space no longer paid for by parents.

"I really have to do this every single month? Shit," said recent college graduate Danny Freese. "At least I'll be able to buy a house within about eight years, right? Right?"

After a cursory Google search revealed that the 23-year-old will be lucky to have enough savings in that span to purchase a 2003 Pontiac with broken windows and bodily fluid stains, the horrors of his present reality began to set in.

"Alright, it's not so bad. I get paid in two weeks," said Freese, an innocent gleam in his eyes. "I'll just stop ordering takeout until then."

Naivety turned to abject terror as soon as the junior marketing associate opened his pantry to find only an expired can of black beans and one and a half sleeves of stale saltine crackers.

"Oh, no! Oh, god!" screamed the poor soul after checking his bank account to learn his rent check was in danger of coming up $20 short. "Where can I sell plasma at 9 p.m. on a Thursday? Hell, I'll give up a kidney for a sandwich platter."

Freese would live in this purgatory for the rest of the night, only for his landlord to overlook the short rent in exchange for eight hours of work painting over outlets all around the building.

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