Created: October 18th
Halloween is right in between. To the best of my knowledge, it started as a day where everyone scared people and then a bunch of candy companies started to impose the idea of walking door to door for treats so they could make some money. It doesn't matter because Halloween is fun for kids, and candy rules.
People used to dress as vampires and ghosts and stuff and now an increasing number dress as fairies, clowns, and video game characters. The only video game characters that should be allowed for Halloween are ghosts and goblins from... Ghosts and Goblins. It just seems to me that shift as gone from Halloween being scary to Halloween being a walk around town for candy. In fact, I guarantee you no one called it Happy Halloween 20 years ago. It was Scary or something, or maybe horrific because then you get the H and... nevermind.
Halloween still kind of rules (at least for the kids who get chocolate) but it's watered down. Nowadays, there are fewer costumes related to blood, and fewer people getting scared by people hiding behind bushes and yelling out BOO! at the right time. There's also a lot of more concern for safety. I've even seen some plastic pumpkins with christmas lights inside. What the hell is this? If your too lazy to make a Jack-o-lantern, just skip that step, don't spend $15 on a fake one. Instead, add a welcome mat that will scare the shit out of anyone who steps on it. But I guess that wouldn't be "politically correct" or... something. At this rate, 50 years from now Halloween will either be:
1) Completely Banned by some group of nuts who doesn't want anyone to have fun, or
2) A day where kids come in really non-scary costumes while they collect candy, and have to get back to their home before dark because apparantly being out at night is dangerous.
Either way, the scary is taken out of the equation.
One more thing, once you're a teenager, you can't go begging for candy anymore. You've had your fun. Now you have to serve it.
