October is the only month where it is acceptable to act and behave in a certain way. It is when the Fall season becomes the Fall as we know it and we can join in with traditions known only to October. There are many activities that are only scene as socially acceptable during the month of October. Here is a list of thirty-one behaviors that would seem odd if it were done during any other month during the year.
- Drink your weight in Apple cider
- Eat enough apple pie to get sick
- Eat anything apple flavored as much as possible
- Wear a vest in 75 degree weather
- Wear boots in 75 degree weather
- Wear scarves in 75 degree weather
- Wear a parka in 55 degree weather
- Act like football is the only sport that matters
- Decorate your house to scare little kids
- Carve pumpkins to scare little kids
- Put pumpkins on your front porch in general
- Knock on people's doors and demand candy
- Pretend to be someone else for a night
- Dress like an animal
- Go out in public as an animal
- Search for ghosts in graveyards
- Jump in piles of leaves
- Watch all three Halloween-towns in 24 hours
- Listen to "Flying, Purple, People Eater"
- Listen to the "Monster Mash"
- Purposefully scare yourself at a haunted house
- Stick your hands in a bucket of unidentifiable substances and guess what it is
- Put a smoke machine in front of your house
- Get lost in a corn maze
- Rent Hocus Pocus and watch on repeat
- Create snacks that look like severed body parts
- Eat said snacks
- Put a costume on your dog
- Eat food labeled "Cat Brains" and "Eyeballs"
- Be afraid of black cats
- Enjoy fall!