Dear Prudence,
My wife has been at her new job for a few months and at the end of October her office is having a Halloween party. While we were out this past weekend, my wife found a cheap pair of novelty glasses. Her idea is to use these glasses to be Jim Jones for Halloween, complete with pitcher of Kool-Aid. My wife can have a pretty dark sense of humor. Is this costume idea too taboo for the workplace? If Jim Jones is a no-go, she’s noticing how the glasses also make her faintly resemble David Koresh. We welcome any suggestions.
—Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid