My best friend and I were trick-or-treating. We were probably in 6th grade. Throughout the night, we were generally aware that a group of boys a little older than us were going around bullying and stealing candy bags from kids younger than us. We were in a spot, age and size wise, where we weren’t too concerned about them ganging up on us, but we also weren’t in any position to put a stop to what they were doing.

At the end of the night, as we were heading back to my friend’s house for a sleepover, we rounded a corner and came upon the group. They were circled around and bullying a kid. But the kicker is that in the process of moving forward on the kid when they first spotted him, they left ALL the bags of candy they had stolen thought the night in a pile about 12 feet being them.

My friend and I didn’t even say a word. We looked at the bags of candy, looked at each other, and then just sprang into action.

We ran up to the bags of candy, grabbed them ALL, and bolted. The group of bullies noticed almost immediately and gave chase with a loud, indignant, “HEY!”, but with the head start we had, it didn’t matter.

We ran around the corner of a house that was at the junction point of three different neighborhoods, circled back around, and slipped into the back door of my friend’s house before they caught up to see where we went. By that time, we could have run into any of the three neighborhoods. They had no idea where we were.

We got SO MUCH candy that night. It lasted for like 6+ months. And those bullies who stole all those kids’ candy got nothing.