Was it everything you thought it would be and more? If so, you are most likely referring to your Halloween experience in Madison this past weekend, where dressing slutty was the norm and stumbling through the police force was completely acceptable. Halloween in Mad town is an utter shit show, calling all girls to wear non-existent skirts and men to question their sexuality, dressing up as women or anything ridiculous. But if you are like some of us who have to rummage through pictures to remember what you did this past weekend, here are a few ways to know if you had a good Halloween weekend in the city that lives for it.

1. You have pictures with police, but instead of them taking your mug shot, you have a friendly shot of them, by choice. Posing with policemen on Halloween and getting away with it proves that you can hold your liquor long enough until the 5-0 bounces.

2. You found your lover: Whether it was Adam finding his Eve, Bert finding his Ernie, those who dressed up as someone of a famous pair could most likely find their significant other amongst the costumed crowd.

3. Your wallet has nothing in it. Spending all your money on costumes and liquor during the Halloween weekend just proves that the money went to a good cause.

4. Your precious little costume is missing its ears, glasses, tail or anything that seemed absolutely essential at the time. Missing parts of a costume means you were having too much fun to notice some drunken guy grabbing at your tail or some girl having a change of heart in the middle of State Street, as she grabbed your bunny ears and desperately wanted to find her “Hef”.

5. Check your wrists. If they aren’t sore and black and blue, it most likely means you didn’t get arrested this weekend or serve some time in the drunk tank. Bravo.

6. Your toilet bowl looks like it had its own Halloween. Puking green and orange vomit the next morning means you participated in drinking Halloween-inspired concoctions, and possibly too many of them.

7. Reading may be the only thing you’ll be doing this weekend, because if you saw the OAR concert this Saturday, you are most certainly deaf.

8. Your house or apartment looks like a crime scene. Whether it’s fake blood or real, the proof is in the pudding that you partied exceptionally well this weekend.

9. You have been bruised, stepped on, punched, pulled, and have multiple war wounds. No, I’m not talking about your frisky foreplay you had this weekend. I’m talking about the herd of drunken people on State Street that most likely caused some serious damage to your body and mind.

10. You’re alive! Even though you make not feel like it, the recovery mode and the stories from Halloween weekend makes it all worthwhile.

So you may have a hangover from hell and questioning what you did Saturday night, but at least you can say you survived Halloween, Mad town style, and it was all worth it.