Opinion: When should we stop trick or treating? Never.

By Kaelie Kemp 
     When the leaves begin to fall and the warm breeze turns cold, we think of fall, and fall is the time for pumpkin patches, fall pictures, and apple cider.
     We can’t forget about the feeling of waking up and knowing that today is the day that we can dress like a total idiots and get free candy. Halloween is the day all the little kids and even some adults look forward to because they get to go door to door and get candy from strangers. But when should we stop? When should we hang up our batman costumes and face reality and start being the ones who actually hand out the candy?
     In a recent informal poll at Western High School most kids said they decide for themselves when they should stop. The poll showed that most teens wanted to stop at the end of high school. Following close behind that was the answer “never.”
    For most of the students, the answer was “You’re never too old to go trick or treating. Even if you’re old no one can tell how old you really are, especially if you’re wearing a mask!”
    This could have been the sarcastic teen tone or the inner kid talking at that point. Coming in last place was “beginning of high school.”
    This might be a different story at other schools, but at Western High the poll tells it all. Most teens don’t want to believe that they are growing up and the fun trick or treating festivities have to come to an end.
     The staff at Halloween City, a local seasonal costume store,  said, “It’s all ages that come into the store. There really isn’t an age limit either, we see babies to old ladies.”
     There really isn’t a certain age that we have to stop trick or treating, if you think about it, we go almost every year. If that be with our parents, with our friends or even with our own children. If there isn’t an age limit then why do we stop?
    Most of the seniors at Western High School said they have a costume already picked out and ready to go.
    Alec Baker for example said he is going to be “Mermaid Man,” while Tyler Jones is dressing up as “Barnacle Boy.” Both characters are from the kids television show, Spongebob Square Pants.
     There have been many more such as the famous “Princess” or even a “Construction Worker." Most of the kids even said they weren’t going to dress up as much as just throw on a mask from the dollar store and go out with their friends.
     In the end, there isn’t really a certain age we have to stop. The inner kid comes out of us all sometime and sometimes to make ourselves happy we break from society and do what we used to do. We grab our masks, cut the holes in our sheets, snag those pillow cases and we go get the free candy from the strangers who give us those weird looks.
    Fall comes around once a year so WHS students should make the most of it.