Everyone loves Halloween for two reasons. One, free candy, that’s
obvious. The other reason, dressing up. I’ve always loved dressing up in costumes.
When spirit week came I would always go all out in whatever the themes were. I
vividly remember walking the halls of my high school wearing a rocket ship
onesie, with a blue bib and binky hanging from my neck and a stuffed bear in
my arms just because it was freshman baby day. I just loved wearing a costume.
This Halloween is different. This year I left the grocery store I worked at and
started working at Hot Topic a teen fashion retailer that’s all about popular
culture. And if you didn’t know, they’re a little obsessed with Halloween. When
October started to arrive our store manager informed us that we would start
having themed weekends to draw in customers and get them excited about our new
costumes. The first weekend was Pokémon themed. The second was movie
characters. Then on the Tuesday of the third week everything changed. Our
district manager came in and informed us that we would need to dress up every
day and send photos to her of our costumes with the threat of a write up for non-compliant. My costume collection has now grown to new levels, I show up to
work as Indiana Jones, the Blue Power Ranger, a vampire, Freddy Kruger, Dipper
from Gravity Falls and Captain America. I’ve now started trading costumes with
coworkers so we don’t have to wear the same things all the time. It’s almost
like a uniform now. I go to school, rush home to change into my persona for the
day and rush to work. Today I’ll be Freddy, Freddy sells costumes well.
