Trick or Treating: Pros and Cons
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Halloween.
A dentist’s nightmare, a child’s dream and an OAP’s biggest nuisance. Why? Trick or treating. It’s that time of year when children all around the nation knock on doors when it gets dark – pumpkins in hand and costumes perfected. There’s nothing like the feeling of being a small child carrying a huge bucket or bag full of sweets and feeling it get heavier and heavier throughout the night. But sometimes the practice of trick or treating goes very wrong… So, what are the pros and cons of every child’s favourite activity?
Pros:
1. All of the sweets
There’s only one reason we go trick or treating and it’s for the sweets, right? Coming home and emptying out the hundreds of sweet, sour and sticky treats isn’t even the best part – it’s eating them! Even if some of the worst ones are still there next Halloween…
2. The art of disguise
Halloween is one of those times when you can easily ‘troll’ your neighbour. Turning up at their door in a costume that completely transforms you from the girl next door to Satan is extremely fun when nobody recognises you. Who needs Harry Potter’s cloak of invisibility when you can dress up this Halloween?
3. That one rumour about the deranged clown
Wherever you come from, there’s always that rumour about the clown with a knife or a gun. If you’re outside after eight o’clock then you better watch your back because you’ll be stabbed by a serial killer dressed as a clown. Far-fetched doesn’t cut it. Many won’t understand how this is a ‘pro’, as it were, but hear me out: the thrill and excitement of believing in something like this is a huge part of growing up, never mind Halloween.
Cons:
1. Tooth decay
Well, all those sweets may have been a good thing in the short-term but if you turn up to your next dentist appointment like that, I guarantee you’ll regret it. Tooth decay is never a positive for anyone, but if you can keep it up for Halloween 2016 then at least you won’t have to dress up to scare your friends… all you need to do is smile!
2. ‘Gutting’ the pumpkins
The stench, the slime and the almost furriness of the inside of the pumpkin is enough to make one vomit. While the end result of pumpkin carving is always impressive, there is a lot of pain before the glamour. Scooping out the insides of the fat orange vegetable in front of you is quite frankly worse than coming face-to-face with Hannibal Lecter in a dark alley. We could all do without that first world problem on Halloween.
3. When it’s actually a ‘trick’ and not a treat
The venom inside of you when some bitter soul (if they even have one, that is) says “trick!” instead of ‘treat’. Don’t you just hate them? I know I do. Turning up at someone’s door to find that they actually don’t care if you have a good time on October 31st and they’re cruel enough to trick you without a reward is crushing. I mean seriously, what kind of person wants to ruin children’s fun?