"Trick or treat!" is a cute phrase coming from a
little girl dressed as an elegant princess. But
something about it just seems wrong coming from the
unshaven, five o’clock shadowed mouth of a high
school student dressed up in normal clothes or a
scary looking witch that just turned out to be a
girl with way too much mascara on.
What’s better than free candy? Sure, Halloween is
a dream come true, but honestly? At least try to
dress up in a costume of some sort and not just walk
around going from house to house in what you wore to
school that day trying to get free candy. And don’t
try to pass off your soccer uniform as a costume, it
is the most unoriginal costume of all time.
And also, those cheap plastic masks from K-Mart
don’t cut it either. If you want candy, at least put
in the effort to get a rubber mask. Just don’t come
to the door with a mask you have to hold onto your
face because it was so cheap that it broke within
the first five minutes.
Although Halloween is an opportunist’s heaven,
usually opportunists are too old to be
trick-or-treating in the first place. One doesn’t
really develop an opportunistic mind-set until high
school. Most people agree that you should stop
trick-or-treating after middle school, and even
then, that’s pushing it.
Nothing is more awkward than answering the door
on Halloween to find high school kids holding out
their pillow cases and staring at you with a smirk
on their faces, not even having the courtesy to say
trick-or-treat.
The only reason you give them candy is out of
fear that your house will be egged or TP’d in the
morning. Halloween was created to scare off spirits,
not scare your neighbors into giving you candy.
To all you high school students who
trick-or-treat, especially the seniors, is it really
worth the time to go around from house to house
getting very little candy, lousy candy at that, from
each house, when you can go to the store and buy the
candy you like for a few dollars?
Halloween is supposed to be about kids having fun
and showing off flashy and scary costumes with just
candy being a bonus. Parents can buy kids candy, but
only once a year can kids dress up and pretend to be
something else and unenthusiastic teenagers seem to
be disgracing the holiday with their
I-don’t-care-all-I-want-is-free-candy attitudes.
Now to be fair, props need to be given to those
students that do go all out and dress up for
Halloween, but usually those kids go to actual
Halloween parties and their costumes are never seen
on the streets.
Dressing up in an extravagant costume to impress
that good-looking prince or princess on the other
side of the room at a party is understandable, but
even if there is no motivation to dress up while out
trick-or-treating, you should at least try. If
pretending like Brad Pitt or Megan Fox are going to
make-out with the teenager with the coolest costume
on is what it takes, go for it!
Most importantly, all you high-antic and
mischievous high school students, no one wants to
wake up to a house that is tee-peed, an egged front
door or a stink bomb in their mail box. You and your
friends may think that it’s funny at the time or
even afterwords, but it’s not. The nice people in
your neighborhoods are giving you candy for free! At
least have the courtesy to not vandalize their
property.
