What I hate about Halloween

I have determined that I do not want a bunch of sugar. I believe it is bad for everybody. Eric went to the Mars company party to do some service and he comes home with this haul:



Somebody is going to get their sugar high from this confection that was prepared by Mrs. Vance. A major award for whomever can win at the Cake Walk that will be put on tonight at the ward Fall Festival.



That is not really what I hate about Halloween. I have always disliked the idea of "Trick or Treat", where you threaten somebody that if they do not give you a treat that you will do something dastardly. It seems that there is a reciprocal relationship where the trickers may be the ones posing as the treaters. When I was a youth there were instances of poisoning and people being injured by peoples tricks.

Then there was that time that somebody threw a bag of powdered perlite on the highway into Manassa. It was never safe to use an outhouse on Halloween. You would either be locked in with a rope or the outhouse would be tipped.