More Seasonal Stories
- A neighborhood ice cream truck started coming by on a completely new schedule this summer, and the whole street's collective ability to predict its arrival became a genuinely impressive shared skill.
- A weekend spent teaching the kids how to properly rake leaves into a pile ended, predictably. The pile was jumped into repeatedly instead of bagged as originally intended by anyone.
- A sudden autumn windstorm knocked leaves off every tree on the block within a single afternoon, turning what would've been weeks of gradual raking into one enormous weekend project instead.
- A neighborhood kids' lemonade stand war broke out between two competing families on the same street. Each undercut the other's prices until lemonade was, briefly, essentially free for the whole block.
- My daughter's homemade Halloween costume this year involved cardboard, duct tape, and a genuinely impressive amount of engineering for a robot outfit that actually lit up properly on the first try.
- A neighborhood potluck dinner had six different families each independently decide to bring the exact same pasta salad. This resulted in an accidental, genuinely enormous surplus that lasted the whole weekend.