The most exciting part about Halloween is being able to change your identity for a day. Sure, I'm fine with the way I am, but taking a break from the average college kid life and pretending to be something totally awesome like a samurai or a ninja is a welcomed change.
At least if you like samurais or ninjas. Personally, I've always wanted to be a knight. To be a chivalrous, women-loving adventurer in the Middle Ages is about as cool as it gets. My dream for Halloween always has been to wear a full suit of metal armor and ride around on my noble steed reciting poetry to all women in sight.
Therein lies my problem. I'm not going to settle for half my dream. Let's face it, a knight isn't a knight without his horse.
Every Halloween when I see the cops on horseback it's like a punch in the face. They sit high and mighty atop their beautiful steeds like knights and I get stuck waiting at the end of the line, cast in my cardboard armor, for a turn merely to pet the horses. I ask, if the United States is about equal opportunity for all, why can I not ride a horse this Halloween?
Friends who visit from other schools are much more impressed by the horse cops than the next house party. On Mill Fest, I remember fondly watching the horses trot side by side. Knights in the Middle Ages, according to Wikipedia, were asked to protect the weak
defenseless helpless and fight for the general welfare of all. Cops, for the most part, receive and deserve a similar recognition but it is no doubt that their intimidating persona is amplified tenfold atop these horses.
It's also well known that girls love to stop outside the bars to pet the horses. They flock to them just they do to a cute puppy. There's no doubt that what the average college male lacks in chivalry could be disregarded by women if he was riding a horse. Although I am graduating at the end of this year I plan to return, like many others, on next Halloween. All I ask, Athens, is to let me return upon a horse.
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Jeff Tolman
