Arguably the best and worst time of the year in Athens is upon us: Halloween. The magical night when partygoers crowd the streets in their poor attempt to be Donald Trump or the Ghostbusters.
Side note: Don’t be the Ghostbusters unless you want every passerby to scream “Who ya gonna call?” at you. I may know this from experience (I went as the Ghostbusters with some friends my freshman year).
Halloween in Athens features a huge block party, so it’s no doubt that you probably have some friends at home whom you haven’t spoken to in ages who curiously pop back into your life when Halloween approaches. So I have some simple advice for you: Don’t let them come.
That’s right, leave them at home. Let me give you three reasons why.
They will trash the town
So many out-of-towners come for the party and have no respect for our usually quaint town. They break things, litter the streets and do whatever drunken debauchery no respectable person would do. They become a hassle, which leads me to my next point.
Your friend will be an inconvenience
Think about it — you’re likely going to be a bit inebriated for the duration of the weekend. Do you really want to have to worry about someone who isn’t familiar with the town? Your friend from home will be an absolute burden, especially if you still live in the residence halls. They’ll have to fork out $50 to even come with you for the weekend, and if they get in trouble, you will too. Pretty lame, and your friend from home will for sure puke in the mod if you live in back South. So that’ll be fun.
Enjoy this with your Athens friends
Sure, your BFF or whatever may want to come on down. But isn’t it odd how they only talked to you when they wanted to come down for Halloween? There comes a time when you inevitably grow apart from your friends from home because they’re all caught up in life at home and still go to the Friday night high school football games. Besides, your Athens friends are way cooler and for sure have a rad group costume that you want to be part of anyway.
So enjoy the festivities, but hopefully without Dan from home, who is going to puke behind Jimmy John’s at 6 p.m. from shotgunning a Four Loko. Dan will ruin your weekend.
Chuck Greenlee is a junior studying communications studies at Ohio University. Please note that the views and opinions of the columnists do not reflect those of The Post. Is your friend Dan coming for the Halloween Block Party? Let Chuck talk you out of inviting Dan by tweeting him @chuck_greenlee.
