Halloween

  When I was at Anderson College my sophomore year, our president invited the students to do trick or treat at his house for Halloween.  They gave out candy.  Our group of guys got as much as we could, and then we set out to go to other houses in the neighborhood.

 We weren't dressed up in scary clothes.  We just went as ourselves, which worked out to be "college students".  We knocked on the doors of all the houses in the neighborhood.  The people were surprised to see older people at their doors.  There weren't very many children that we could see, so we loaded up on candy.  I guess that the folks were glad to get rid of their candy, and we were very happy to help them out.  

 When we got back to our dorm, we emptied our bags on a bed and separated the candy by what we liked.  We all got our favorites and went back to our rooms.  Our haul was so great that we had enough candy to last us until the end of the semester.  That was the last time I ever did trick or treat on Halloween by going to others' houses.  It might be too dangerous now.

 We also found a way to get free food on weekends.  We would look for someone getting married and go to the reception. If anyone asked, were we friends of the bride or groom, we would usually say the groom.  We were in school with him or we worked with him.  No one would know the difference, and it was free.