On Halloween

Halloween is for sinners. Halloween is for kids. Halloween is for church goers. Halloween is for adults with kids. Halloween is for old people who don't have kids but want them and try to lure them in with candy. Halloween is for just about everyone. Everyone, it seems, except high end teenagers.

Last Halloween, Oct. 31 for those out of the loop, my first dress up Halloween in a long time. It had probably been about 5 years since the other. I had decided to do it up as Richard Simmons. Coming from a little school, everyone always dressed up on Halloween, so I wasn't alone. While there were no more Richard Simmonses, there were some pumpkins and sluts. But apparently, tiny piping shorts on a guy were just enough to get attention from everyone in the school. I was called out by everyone and their mother. So, Halloween last year at school was alright.

Halloween that night was not cool. Two of my friends and I went trick-or-treating. We mostly wanted treats, but nearly every house gave a rude comment about our age before dropping a Tootsie Roll into our pillow cases. No, "I'm glad you aren't drinking it up on a night like this," or a,"You kids make me proud." Nope, none of that. They mostly consisted of "Aren't you too old for trick-or-treating"s and "Where are the children?"s. We got mad so we went to the church to help with the festivities. Fun games and popcorn kept babies out of their mothers' hair for 15 seconds, and we would aid in the jubilation.

There was no jubilation. As soon as we got to church, we had to clean. Clean clean clean. And just a little more cleaning. After 3 hours of cleaning, we DID get the leftover candy from the games. about two banana boxes full. So teenagers may be able to eat all the candy they want, but they shouldn't dress up and try to have fun on a holiday, apparently it's just wrong.