thoughts on halloween this year?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not catapulting shit! I assume if you’re trick or treating you’re okay with any risk there might be including touching my candy. I’m not creating trebuchets to fling m&ms at them.

I love seeing the word trebuchet on DCUM. It classes up the place.

[Anonymous]

There was a trebuchet at my son’s school’s fall festival. It was impressive. Is this a thing now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There was a trebuchet at my son’s school’s fall festival. It was impressive. Is this a thing now?

There was a fall festival? This year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We just got back and my neighborhood was great. Plenty of candy and the tables were well decorated. It was really nice and normal. The houses with candy shutes were a big hit with DCs and I appreciate the effort.

We had a great time too! The families who participated put tables out at the end with bags full of candy. Everybody just took one bag and didn’t touch the others. It was so well done and it was very nice to do something normal again.

[Anonymous]

I am pretty cautious (go to the grocery store and may run quick errands but not gathering inside with friends/family or going to restaurants) and I am very comfortable with TOT that is done in a socially distanced manner. Our neighborhood asked that families that wanted to participate put out candy on a table and if they don’t want to participate that is fine. We put candy in bags and my DH and I sat outside around a fire pit about 30 feet from the table. Kids came in small groups and nearly all with a parent. It was great and we had more kids than ever before. We live in a neighborhood where houses are each on a acre and so normally only get around 20 kids. Had about double that number tonight.

[Anonymous]

Tables lined the street, some with prebagged candy, some grab out of the bowl. Lots of masks. People gave each other space.

We saw clotheslines with candy, candy stakes in the ground, bags of candy, loose candy, sliding devices, and a zip line. The zip line was cool. You picked a full size candy bar and sent a signal by dancing, flapping like a bird, or yelling a sane. The family put the candy on a tray decorated like a ghost and sent it down.

People sat around fire pits and chatted.

There were fewer house and fewer kids but it was a good night.

[Anonymous]

I'm in a largish neighborhood in Ashburn and there was no t or ting tonight. Our hoa did something covid safe and that was it. There have been no kids out here.

[Anonymous]

We just did the usual (bowl of candy, kids reach in and take what they want) and stayed inside and answered the door when they came. We had slightly more kids than other years, but we are on a cul de sac that doesn’t get much traffic. I guess our Halloween lights and decor attracted a few extra kids this year. It was so fun to see the kids and for them to experience some normalcy.

[Anonymous]

One thing led to another and now a large group of kids and parents are socializing in the street. Guess that’s what the CDC was worried about.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm in Ashburn in a neighborhood with gazillion of kids. The homes are decorated and people already have their usual set up planned with bonfires and such. We are having our usual gathering of families who come from their boring neighborhoods with no kids and tot in ours.

Maybe because we don't live in the city, but people out here have been pretty chill. My kids have been seeing their friends inside homes since summer. The only change to our life has been school. I so know one one odd duck family who has been bunkered down since March. I think there's some mental health struggles going on there.

And if everyone continues to live like this we will never get back in school. Are my kids trick or treating? Yes. Are we gathering with all the neighbors and hanging out at each others houses? No. Cause we went to go to school one day. I digress but this is so typical of the ashburn mindset.

We've been at it all summer and have an extremely live covid rate in Ashburn. I've actually known of exactly zero people with covid. I'm sure though there are lots of asymptomatic cases.

School is closed because our local school board lacks leadership. Everything is open, except school.

Staying closed didn't work out so well for Europe. And guess what? They are having riots over a 2nd closure. They are sick of it. Normal people realize we need to live our lives. We need to work around it. That is the end result and even you, Polly Pandemic will have to face this as well..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm in a largish neighborhood in Ashburn and there was no t or ting tonight. Our hoa did something covid safe and that was it. There have been no kids out here.

I'm in Ashburn as well. They must have all driven over to my neighborhood. I blew through 57 king sized candies. 3 left over. I was sweating that I'd run out.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm in Ashburn in a neighborhood with gazillion of kids. The homes are decorated and people already have their usual set up planned with bonfires and such. We are having our usual gathering of families who come from their boring neighborhoods with no kids and tot in ours.

Maybe because we don't live in the city, but people out here have been pretty chill. My kids have been seeing their friends inside homes since summer. The only change to our life has been school. I so know one one odd duck family who has been bunkered down since March. I think there's some mental health struggles going on there.

And if everyone continues to live like this we will never get back in school. Are my kids trick or treating? Yes. Are we gathering with all the neighbors and hanging out at each others houses? No. Cause we went to go to school one day. I digress but this is so typical of the ashburn mindset.

We've been at it all summer and have an extremely live covid rate in Ashburn. I've actually known of exactly zero people with covid. I'm sure though there are lots of asymptomatic cases.

School is closed because our local school board lacks leadership. Everything is open, except school.

Staying closed didn't work out so well for Europe. And guess what? They are having riots over a 2nd closure. They are sick of it. Normal people realize we need to live our lives. We need to work around it. That is the end result and even you, Polly Pandemic will have to face this as well..

Wow, you don’t get how serious COVID is.

[Anonymous]

I live close to Ashburn and our neighborhood had a big bonfire/outdoor party, adults drinking, kids running around. We avoided it, but took the kids out for socially distanced ToT. Just the optics of it seemed tone deaf and wrong, at a time when the CDC has said not to do stuff like that and we are desperately trying to get kids back in school.

Ashburn lady who thinks the COVID numbers are low here: Go check the recent numbers. In the past two weeks, our numbers have steadily increased. The next wave has reached our county and your little bubble is simply a mirage.

It's because of things like this that our case numbers will continue to rise and our kids will never get back in school. SMH.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tables lined the street, some with prebagged candy, some grab out of the bowl. Lots of masks. People gave each other space.

We saw clotheslines with candy, candy stakes in the ground, bags of candy, loose candy, sliding devices, and a zip line. The zip line was cool. You picked a full size candy bar and sent a signal by dancing, flapping like a bird, or yelling a sane. The family put the candy on a tray decorated like a ghost and sent it down.

People sat around fire pits and chatted.

There were fewer house and fewer kids but it was a good night.

Amazing!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s because zero risk people won’t let their kids participate so they don’t want anyone else’s kids to have the option either. They’d rather have no one go then be the ones to tell their kids no. FWIW, our neighborhood is doing trick-or-treat with any house with a light on.

It’s like the parents who don’t want any kids attending school in person, even though they have the option to stay all-virtual.

Like someone upthread said, it’s all about control for some people. They’ve made a decision to be careful. More power to them. But, that doesn’t give them any right to try and force the rest of us to live like they do.

I don’t know, for some reason the DC area attracts those types of people.

I am one of those parents. Look here, the pandemic IS NOT OVER. It is not safe because some kid won't follow the rules and will expose your kid.

Okay. Well, I’m certainly not going to tell you how to live your life. I assume you know what’s best for your family.

But, no, you don’t get to make those decisions for my family. Your stress and anxiety level will go down once you accept that you can’t control other people.

My kids are going trick or treating this year.

Np Just tell your kids not to expect as much candy as previous years because not everyone on your block is going to be handing out candy. If we can't tell you what to do than you can't tell us.

I wish your predictions had been true. My kids weighed their candy last night and the youngest had 12lbs. Plus a ton of king size this year. It was really nice to see most houses with porch lights on welcoming TOT. Also no shortage of bonfires and spiked cider being given to the adults.

All in all it was actually a great Halloween. So many creative ideas and way more people outside than ever (people in driveways and such, basically met lots of new people).

Frankly I'm glad the Debbie Downers in this site are clearly in the minority hysterical fringe.