- Getting treats as kid
- Playing tricks as a teen (hello, carton of eggs)
- Stealing kisses from a beautiful princess while dressed like an evil vampire
- The crisp chill of the evening air
- Carving my first pumpkin
- Carving my first pumpkin that didn’t look like a pumpkin that belonged on the short bus
- Smashing my first dozen pumpkins
- It’s the most creative Holiday of them all. It allows for your inner artist to come alive
- Innocents can be devils. Devils can be Angels. We can be anything our imaginations dare to think up
- Mocking all things evil and turning them into punchlines, if just for one night
- We PAY money to be chased by chainsaw wielding psychos
- Hay rides
- Corn mazes
- We get to dance with death and grin back at the sardonic skulls
- Fog machines
- Using my pillow case as a candy sack
- Honor Bowls (hehe, yeah right)
- Jack Chop
- The unique smell of a freshly opened cheap latex mask
- Passing down the traditions to the next generation
- Driving around the neighborhoods to check out all the decorations
- That one guy who goes WAY overboard and turns his house into a Haunted House even though his wife is probably not cool with it
- Haunted Houses
- The thrill of the unknown
- Being scared, but knowing it’s all in good fun
- Monster themed cereals (Count Chocula, more like Count Yummy)
- Putting up ghoulish and scary decorations
- It allows us adults an opportunity to reconnect with your youth and imagination (something the cosplay peeps never forgot)
- Halloween is about possibility, and is held captive by its own unique sense of magic and wonder
- The spirit of it all
- Bobbing for apples (or brains)
- Dry ice smoke billowing out from a Witch’s cauldron
- Being blind-folded and reaching into a bowl of “brains” and “eyeballs”
- People watching: Psychoanalyzing costume choices
- Talking about the best costumes you saw this year
- Planning your costume for the following year
- Roasting pumpkin seeds after the carving
- Being able to roam the streets with my friends (not sure if kids get to do this anymore)
- Dimly lit Jack ‘O Lanterns shimmering through the night
- Scaring the living piss out of your date and knowing she can’t hate you for it
- Sugar. Coma.
- Being on a dance floor with an astronaut, Sponge Bob, the Little Mermaid, and the chick from The Exorcist
- Petrifying Punches, Creepy Cocktails and Shock-Inducing Shots
- Hiding a fake spider near someone who may have a heart attack when they see it
- Halloween music
- No church. No buying gifts. No putting up with obnoxious relatives. Just fun!
- Hosting my own Halloween party
- Telling someone that their costume, decorations, etc are amazing – and meaning it
- The Simpsons Tree House of Horror
- Horror Movies (and their accompanying marathons)
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