How old is too old to Trick-or-Treat?

By: Mickail Thomas

Trick-or-Treating doesn’t have a dictated age for a reason. There is no age limit for Trick-or-Treating. Someone can be 30 years old and still go out to Trick-or-Treat, but some people have differing opinions.

According to Times.com, there’s a city, Chesapeake, Virginia, with a rule that states thst anyone over the age of 12 couls be charged with a misdemeanor for trick-or treating. Mayor Richard West had to explain that the law was passed in the ‘70s due to instances where teenagers would harrase the younger kids. However, he assured that no one would be arrested for trick-or-treating.

So, at the end of the situation, there was only one answer: There is no age limit. When an man, living in a neighborhood about to be crawling with Trick-or-Treaters, was asked the question, he answered, “I think people should have all the fun they want. If a grown adult came up to me in costume and said ‘Trick-or-Treat’ I’d give them candy as well.” He firmly believed that the practice shouldn’t have any restriction to it, and that people shouldn’t stop having fun just because they’re not kids anymore.

High School student, Imani Thomas ‘21, gave his own opinion saying, “I personally stopped Trick-or-Treating at fourteen. All power to the people who can still do that, but I just can’t.” Thomas hasn’t Trick-or-Treated in years but she takes her younger cousins for out for candy every year.

A foreign exchange student, Fleur Strik ‘20, who never Trick-or-Treated before, thought that “it’s a fun time for kids to get free candy.” Where she came from, people didn’t wear costumes, they sang for candy. Strik found the idea of singing for candy irritable compared to just wearing a fun costume. She enjoyed the idea, and found it to be a fun.

Final verdict? Trick-or-Treating won’t stop unless you want it too, and it seems like some people will happily give you candy, no matter how old you look, or are.