Covidween

#🤔/🎃…🥔

(I am workshopping Halloween with a mom while my 10yo daughter is at lacrosse practice…)

Steve
Are you doing Halloween?

Mom
I think so. The kids are excited anyway.

Steve
So are mine, but we’re not into it.

Mom
Like normal not into it or pandemic not into it?

Steve
Pandemic. I just don’t see how it works.

Mom
Well, we’re going to put some candy in ziplocs and-

Steve
Wrapped candies put together in their own bag… like a candy pod?

Mom
Yeah, kind of, and just leave them out.

Steve
Where? Like randomly out in the yard?

Mom
Ha! No. On the steps. Or on a table all separated.

Steve
But how do you keep one kid from grabbing them all?

Mom
You wait at a distance and say, ‘Just one.’

Steve
Ok, but how do you control what other houses do, and know who’s COVID covered teen was in charge of putting all the candy in the bowl, and what about crowding at the door, and-

Mom
Yeah, we didn’t think it out that far yet.

Steve

Mom

Steve
I had an idea for a candy trebuchet, but I don’t want to blind anyone with Laffy Taffy.

Mom
Ha!

Steve
We thought maybe we’d do a goodie bag and just drop them off the day before to the families on our street and assorted school friends. Just treat, no trick, if you will.

Mom
That’s not bad.

Steve
But there’s no pageantry or thrill of finding that one house with the full size bar so… I don’t know.

Mom
Yeah, I don’t know.

Steve

Mom

Steve
Ella wants to do a piñata, of course, but I heard the idea of a candy hunt within a pod.

Mom
I hate piñatas because one kid breaks it and one kid gets all the candy and there’s always like one kid who gets nothing.

Steve
Right. Piñata economy, I get it.

Mom
But a candy hunt is interesting.

Steve
You still end up with one kid finding all the candy, though. And then there’s the one kid who ends up with two Butterfingers and a dirty Starburst.

Mom
But maybe they get a life lesson where they learn it’s all luck.

Steve
Or… we tell them it’s a candy hunt, but there’s no candy. They’re searching for their wildest dreams, but learn life’s not fair and that they need to greatly lower their expectations.

Mom
Oh, that’s good.

Steve
And then we hand them some potatoes and call it a night.