Friday, October 30, 2009

When are you too old to beg for candy?

How old is too old to trick-or-treat?

I say that if you're old enough to shave, you're too old.

Old enough to drive? Too old.

Taller than I am? Too old.

If it has crossed your mind to go trick-or-treating as an ironic act, you are way over the trick-or-treat hill.

Most of us have some inner clock that tells us when it's time to stop parading around the streets in fangs or a pink tutu, knocking on strangers' doors and begging for Fun Size Snickers bars.

It's like sucking your thumb or doodling your boyfriend's name in hearts or saying "Mommy." At some point, you just know it's time to let go.

Don't you? Not necessarily.

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