Trick-or-Treating: harmless holiday celebration or ultimate safety violation of doom? Halloween is the holiday kids look forward to all year. I mean, what kid doesn't enjoy free candy? Heck, I do. But, your parents have always said, "Never take candy from a stranger." Ironic, or am I crazy?
We all know this tradition. Every Halloween you dress up in ridiculous costumes and go from door to door at strangers houses and grab candy from them. Now is it just me, or did our parents tell us for all of our lives to stay away from strangers and not take candy from them? I mean, not all strangers are bad, and I should know, I am one (I'm the good kind, don't worry), but seriously people, you don't know what these people are giving you, which is exactly why they say not to take candy from a stranger.
Then that fateful day comes along, Halloween. Instead of not letting you take candy from an unknown, your parents practically beg you to. They walk along as they let you go up to stranger's doors (another no-no in the safety vicinity) and take potentially poisonous candy from tons of people they don't know and will never meet and then let you consume large quantities of it. One interrogation, here. Why?
Morgan612: If you shouldn't take candy from a stranger, why do we trick-or-treat on Halloween?
pupdog10: Because Halloween is special, and, let's face it, if Halloween is about scaring people, I'm pretty sure kids coming to your house taking your candy is scary enough.
autumn003: We trick-or-treat on Halloween and take candy from people because it is the only day we are allowed to eat as much of other people's candy as we want to. It's like freedom for kids! All year we try to not break the rules. Halloween is that one day to take candy from people without breaking the rules!
SlUrPeE15: You trick-or-treat on Halloween to have fun. Without getting free candy and dressing up in freaky costumes there would be nothing to do on Halloween and it wouldn't be much of a holiday.
itstyler: Because who cares about the rule, it's candy!
So maybe it's just all part of the tradition, or it's one day of the year to break the rules, or we just do it because it's free candy for all, but it still doesn't make much sense to me that our parents would allow us to do this year after year, after telling us not to do it. It's just a little wacko if I say so myself. WAIT! I have an answer! Maybe aliens come and take away our parents brains for one day on Halloween. And then they let us do what they said not to do. Or not. We'll find out.
I have scoped out some very meaningful information. It tells me that trick-or-treating began as the kids scaring the house owners with costumes, and telling them to give them a treat. So it was indeed not the intention of the house owner to have a skeleton run up to their door and scare them and to have poisoned candy or chocolate covered spiders right on hand. So I think it was ok back in the day to trick-or-treat. And I think it's ok now. As long as you don't eat something that looks like a dead bug or a chocolate covered safety pin.
So children, be careful and be safe while trick-or-treating this October. This has been another . . . "What Amy?! I don't know what country you're talking about! Oohh! Hahaha!"
