It’ll haunt you for the rest of your days.
When Josh Stone was 19, he wanted some quick cash. And so he turned to Halloween costume modeling. As one does.
"I didn't have any misconceptions that I could be a model," he told BuzzFeed Life. At the time, almost exactly 10 years ago, he was a student at San Diego State University and working at Abercrombie. "I was just a tall, lanky dude. But for some reason I had this agency that called me like once a month."
And one day they called with an offer — one day of work for $250 an hour. Of course, Josh said yes.
California Costumes / Provided by Josh Stone
When he showed up to the 8 a.m. shoot, Josh recalled, everyone "took it really seriously and I just kept eating bagels and being a sarcastic asshole."
"I was making all these jokes about how ridiculous the situation was and NOBODY was saying anything."
He said he was the only male model, although there were a handful of female models, and he laughed at the memory of his 19-year-old self: "I'm dressed as Big Bird hitting on some girl who's dressed as Wonder Woman, and getting totally shut down. And I remember trying with different costumes! To like, A/B test which one she would respond to. The answer was none."
Josh Stone
That one day of work has translated into a decade of Josh's friends and family spotting his photos in Halloween stores and around the internet.
"Every Halloween, guaranteed, I get friends or even just people I've met a couple of times coming out of the woodwork to tell me they saw me at a Halloween store." And then there are the perennials, like his sister and mother. "Now my mom knows how to group text, and she also now knows how to attach photos, so she texts the entire family."
His girlfriend told BuzzFeed Life that she "cannot begin to express how much I LOVE going to Halloween stores every year and looking out for him."
California Costumes / Provided by Josh Stone
He only modeled around seven or eight costumes that day, but has been put in countless more thanks to the magic of photo editing.
His favorite was this count outfit.
California Costumes / Provided by California Costumes
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