My kid looked at the Christmas crackers on the table and said, 'Mom, why do we have to pull them?' I said, 'Because it's fun and someone gets a funny hat.' He said, 'It's not fun. It's a paper tube. You pull it. It goes bang. A hat comes out. You put the hat on. The hat is paper. The hat is the size of a thimble. You are putting a thimble-sized paper hat on your head. And then you laugh. And then you take it off. And that's the whole event.'