Halloween is the time of the year in which kids go to door-to-door collecting candy.  Most people like seeing the kids in their costumes.  It’s a fun time. The dilemma is deciding when a kid is no longer a kid.

You know those people, those 15 to17 year old “kids.” Maybe they want free candy.  Maybe they just want to keep the kid inside them alive.

Lilly Higdon and Cyrus Patel were just a few of the many who went trick-or-treating this year.  Lilly Higdon, a sophomore, dressed up as the Greek Goddess Athena, and went to a friend’s house to hang out and get candy.  “Trick-or-treating is fun, and I don’t understand why people think it’s immature.”

Cyrus Patel, a junior, wanted to dress up.  He went as Ron Burgundy and his friends made up the rest of the Channel 4 news team.  They went around quoting the movie Anchorman and collecting candy.

Some students feel too old to trick or treat, so they find other ways to participate in Halloween.  Alanis Craig, another junior,  promoted a good cause.  She went to the southeast YMCA to entertain and pass out candy to the kids.  “I do this every year because I love seeing the smiles on a child’s face,” remarked Alanis.

Even adults find ways to participate.  Mr. Parker spent the better part of the morning announcements encouraging students to have a safe Halloween and couldn’t contain his excitement about handing out candy at his house on Halloween.  Mrs. Panagos, the multi-media design teacher at Bob Jones,  is also one of those people.  “Because this is the first year that my oldest child isn’t trick-or-treating, we went all out with our Halloween décor so that he can have fun passing out candy to trick-or-treaters.  There are spiders everywhere!”

The hard part is deciding when to transition from taker to giver.