What’s not to love about
free candy? What’s not to adore about semi-acceptable vandalization
of private property? The shops around my neighborhood stop selling eggs
two days before Halloween, that’s how rampant is the egging. Think
about that for a second—how wild is it that for one long night,
you are allowed, encouraged, even to go to a stranger’s home and
demand loot or you’ll trash their lawn? That, my friends, is sanctioned
extortion. Too bad it ends by the time you hit your teens: we should
have Trick-Or-Treat for adults, where we can demand director’s–cut
DVDs and Blackberries or the poor sap will get a tax audit.
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