Monday, October 31, 2005

Boo Chain

A bag of Hallowe'en goodies appeared at my doorstep yesterday morning, anonymously deposited, along with a poem explaining that it was now my task to distribute two more such bags to neighbors.

The bag also held a "Boo" sign that I was to put on my door to indicated that I'd already been "Boo'ed."

Laurette and Claudia went out last night and prepared the bags.

I snuck out early this morning with bags in hand, and had a little trouble finding a house without a Boo on the front door, so I had a brisk little walk.

Nice idea. Have you heard of this before, or is it a new thing?

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This happened to my wife and I. We were pleasantly surprised, but sad to say that we did not keep the chain going. We were out of town quite a bit right after it happened and neglected to continue the chain. It was a great idea, we believe! A nice way to promote community involvement. However, we have to be careful these days with "suspicious" candies. I suppose I would have been "less" suspicious if I had known exactly who had left it! But, I suppose that is also part of the fun! :)

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Anonymous said...

We did that a few years ago in our old neighborhood. The problem, though, was that none of our neighbors had a sense of humor and did not keep the chain going. :-/ In our current neigborhood, nobody has done anything like that. I would have, had I thought of it, but I didn't, so I'll try to remember it for next year.

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Anonymous said...

We got Boo'ed, but there was no note and I didn't know it was a chain until reading your blog! We'll know the drill next year. It was fun trying to figure out who did it (we saw a mysterious van driving away).

We had an odd assortment of trick-or-treaters. After the first round of neighborhood little kids came carloads of "imports" and a lot of older teenagers late in the evening. We found an empty can of malt beverage in the yard.