Yet only ten minutes later the same writer was asked to share her Internet connection with her son. Although surprised to find that pumpkin carving required access to the Internet, the writer relinquished her seat at the home computer. The writer’s willingness to satisfy her son’s request then led to another discovery. It allowed the writer to view a number of interesting pumpkin carving patterns.
When that writer returned to her computer, she found before her the web site for www.spookmaster.com. From what the writer could surmise, that web site offered Internet viewers a chance to obtain details on certain pumpkin carving patterns. According the information on the homepage, the pattern specifics would be provided to those who used their Internet connection in order to sign-up with the administrator of the spookmaster web site.
The writer noticed that the web site displayed a number of potential designs for the Halloween pumpkin carvers. She noted too that her son had taken an interest in one particular design—a design that created a Batman image on the side of a pumpkin. Yet she knew that her son needed to have the pumpkin ready for a Sunday party. It was therefore obvious that he wanted to try carving a Batman image on a pumpkin without taking time to obtain the available pattern.
Now had the writer expected that the carved pumpkin would be put on her front porch, she would have definitely wondered why her son wanted to re-create the Batman pattern As it was, she knew that the impromptu pumpkin carving session had been designed to fashion a carved pumpkin for a Sunday children’s party. Unfortunately she also suspected that her son would fail to make an attractive pumpkin in the absence of the needed pumpkin carving instructions.
By the same token, the writer could see why a young man of 21 would want to try re-creating one of the spookmaster designs. Their designs would interest almost anyone intent on creative pumpkin carving. The spookmaster web site offered patterns for making designs that resembled a pirate the head of a mummy, a skull shape and even Darth Vader. The spookmaster web site seemed ready to carry pumpkin carving to a whole new level.
Of course the wonderful patterns on the spookmaster web site did nothing to improve the carving technique of those who wanted to try recreating one or more patterns. Nor did the web site offer any advice for those who had failed to carve an eye-catching pumpkin. The writer later learned that her son’s pumpkin would have probably earned a failing grade. A wise move by his wife had created an intact pumpkin with a conventional image—the image of a human face.