Trick-or-Treating is a favorite pastime for everyone, but there comes a point where having a forty-year old man walking up to his neighbor’s door asking for candy in a mummy costume made of toilet paper is a little…strange. Trick-or-Treating is acceptable for high-schoolers, even for seniors, but eighteen is about the age where people should reconsider the motives of their actions—hence the name “young adult.”
“I love to dress up in costumes that you don’t wear every day,” says junior Elizabeth Regan. “I like getting big, fat, juicy lollipops,” adds junior Matthew Hetzer. Although it is still appropriate for high schoolers to participate in Halloween festivities, it is a bit of a stretch for anyone older to dress up in a costume and go door to door asking for candy. College students who feel an overwhelming urge to celebrate Halloween can throw costume parties instead.
A recent poll at Langley shows that 52 out of 100 students feel you can never too old to Trick-or-Treat. The only problem is that “never too old” includes parents (whose children might be a little embarrassed) and that forty-year old guy in the toilet paper costume. So will those same 52 people be mummies for Halloween twenty years later? Maybe. But should they asking for candy at the same time? Probably not.