Back when I was a teenager, I spent 3 Octobers workin a volunteer haunted house in a mall. It was run by the local fire department and instead of money, admission was 1 canned goodie other non-perishable food item. I absolute loved it there, but there were always the jerks coming thru, and I treated it like a special challenge. If you can get them to scream, it's the ultimate win in my book. Can be dangerous though, and if they are drunk or high, you should always scare from a distance.

My favorite roll to play was the snake lady. There was a sort of cage with a big glass window, and the makeup artist did an amazing his making the scales look cool and shimmer just right. It was set up so they pass the glass and I would try to move around in an unsettling and animalistic way, not meant to cause immediate screams, just unsettle them, then as they are looking at me, the keeper would come out from the corner he was hiding in right behind them and give em a good scare. If they didn't immediately run too fast for me to catch them, I would then go to the side door to my "cage" while thy were looking at him and "break out" and usually chase them out of the room. Anyway that was the routine. My sister and I both worked there, and she had a real drive for it. Like me, she took the tough customers as a challenge, but wasn't as careful about judging when someone could be dangerous and she should keep a distance. One weekend, they needed someone big and intimidating to play the exocutioner since the normal guy was out for the week. The only guy that they had to spare was a scrawny 14 year old, so they asked me to do it and put my sister in the snake cage. The wall to my room was on the other side of the back wall of her cage so when I heard these asshole teenage boys being generally rude and beligerant to her, I got pissed and decided to give them hell when they got to my room. But then I heard her slam her cage door open an I thought she was making a mistake cause these guys seemed like the type to punch when startled, and low and behold the commotion that followed has her with a bloody nose. They wanted to send her home, but she really wanted to get back out there, so after the bleeding stopped, they fixed her makeup and let her go back to the cage under the condition that she keep the door closed the rest of the night.