Weird neighbor and Halloween

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please, someone—OP or otherwise—what is a “boo” in this context?

Even worse than chain letters. Someone puts some small gifts on your porch and something that says you’ve been boo’ed. You are then supposed to give a little bag of trinkets to a few neighbors, who then do it to other people, and so on. People put up the “I’ve been boo’ed” sign to indicate they’ve already been tagged, or to prevent getting tagged in the first place.

I used to do this. Then we moved to the city where it wasn’t necessary.

Good for the neighbor!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How could you possibly know if they've been boo'd? Wow, unreal!!!!

PP again. We drove to our old neighborhood once to boo our former neighbors. Then we boo'd our new neighbors. Unreal -- again -- that you think you know who boo's who. Crazy.

You check the back of the signs for a special registry number. All legitimate signs will have that you can check on the international boo registry.

[Anonymous]

This thread has me literally crying and falling off my chair with laughter. Just want to say that.

And thanks, because I really needed this today.

[Anonymous]

This is hilarious. People actually do this? I would throw that sign in the trash so fast... Sort of like how I don't respond to chain emails or tagging. Leave your poor neighbor alone ffs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a neighbor a few doors down who seems nice, usually. A little stand-offish sometimes. Her girls and my boys play together nicely when they see each other.

She was packing up her car on Friday, and I asked if she needed me to look out for packages or anything. She said no thank you, just a short trip, got it covered, etc.

I was walking our dog later and noticed that they had put up a "We've Been Boo-ed" sign that was definitely not there when they were packing up. My boys and I usually do the first "Boos" of the season, and always get their house, because their girls are so nice and cute.

I get that they don't want to participate, but she could have said something or posted a sign that was like "please don't Boo us"; they definitely were not Booed, because no other house on our street that has kids has the sign up! I'm just bummed. It's not like I would have left it on their porch all weekend, knowing they were gone.

If she is a few doors down then let her next-door neighbors watch for packages or anything. She probably thinks, as I do, that you are the nosy neighborhood roving windbag. You are not the Big Boo Boss. I'll bet she cringed Friday when she saw you coming. You were hoping to find out where she was going, didn't you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a WOHM and don't participate in Boo-ing anymore, but not because of the "oh I have no time and am oh-so-busy factor"; it's not actually that taxing to buy some candy/crap and put it in a bag with a note, etc.

What I hate about it (and why I stopped passing it on) is the environmental factor. We just don't need or use more Cheap Plastic Crap. It's enough, already. Kids get enough junk between the school parties/neighborhood parade/actual H'ween night. No mas!

Totally agree with this. I also wish snack after soccer games would go away for the season reason - too much unnecessary trash. The kids may like it but also totally understand the need to stop generating waste. We can find new ways to have fun.

Oh, OP is also the "of COURSE our kids need a junky snack after playing on a field for half an hour! How on Earth would they otherwise cope?! And we have nothing to do afterwards, so now your kids will need to stand around longer and talk to mine, and I'll be able to talk your ears off too, isn't that great! Here's the sign-up sheet, ladies!" mom. For sure.

[Anonymous]

*OP is saying that she does the first booing and didn’t boo the neighbor, therefore the neighbor could not have been boo’ed.*

Beautifully said and I so appreciate you using several tenses of the transitive verb, boo.

I see your boo/booing/booed and I raise you;

I will have booed
I will be booing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:*OP is saying that she does the first booing and didn’t boo the neighbor, therefore the neighbor could not have been boo’ed.*

Beautifully said and I so appreciate you using several tenses of the transitive verb, boo.

I see your boo/booing/booed and I raise you;

I will have booed
I will be booing

I boo so hard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boo your f’ing self and stop using your brain as a hat rest.

This is a DCUM CLASSIC!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread has me literally crying and falling off my chair with laughter. Just want to say that.

And thanks, because I really needed this today.

Same here. This could become a DCUM classic.

[Anonymous]

Just when I start to think the suburbs of DC might not be the seventh level of hell...

[Anonymous]

I don't think the neighbor is the weird one in this scenario. Wow.

[Anonymous]

Go BOO yourself!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP as usual you had to know the snark would be over the top. I'll make you feel better. You seem sensitive, sweet and your kids are young. "We've been boo'd" is actually a very diplomatic way of saying she doesn't want bags of candy on her porch. PPs are right. She doesn't want to announce her house is empty. It's not personal, so shake it off.

To make you smile...here's a timeline of how this goes. In my neighborhood, boo'ing was a rite of passage since kids were trekking down long, dark (scary) driveways. By middle school, kids did it with gross bag contents and funny, scary notes. At this point, we blew them away with air horns. Sadly, it attracted more tweens. By HS, 9th graders hopped the gate to boo and my very well placed husband in IT clown costume did the trick. Snap chat maps location made it easy to know when they were close.Think one kid sprained his ankle trying to get away over gate. We don't like him anyway, was great fun! Happy Halloween!

Were you trying to make the OP feel better by demonstrating that she isn't the weirdest person on this thread? If so, mission accomplished.

[Anonymous]

What's honey boo boo up to in 2019?