So I'm walking to the store the other day and at the end of my road there was a couple putting up Christmas lights. In my head I'm thinking, "Just keep walking - don't say a word" - this lasted until I got in front of their house and then I turned to them and said, "YOU'RE MAKING THE REST OF US LOOK BAD!"
again, no small talk - we're all automatically in the middle of a conversation because small talk makes people uncomfortable..."hi!"..."hi"..."how are you?"...people rarely care anyway and I don't want to start out with people lying, so...
They laughed.
I continued on my store journey and on the way back home I passed their house again, only this time, the people across the street from them were also out putting their Christmas lights up.
So I said the only thing I could have while pointing to the neighbors across the street...
"LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE!"
This lead to a discussion about Christmas lights, the neighborhood, bad influences, peer pressure and me thinking about trying to con them into doing mine. All five of us. And that's how we all met.
You should just know who lives across the street anyway - then I went back to my own end of the street where the people are still lazy and no lights are up...laughs
It was fun.
By the end of the week, half the street will be lit up - and it's all their fault.
Yep - it is all their fault; and now you know you they are:)
ReplyDeleteHappy lighting!
The guy across the street turns on his Christmas lights once everyone hangs out their Halloween decorations at the beginning of October. What a jerk.
ReplyDeleteI personally think he's missing a few million brain cells. We don't really talk very often because it's a pretty wide street. We generally just wave. Fortunately the store is in the other direction.
I am braving the roof tomorrow while we have a bit of good weather. I am not looking forward to this at all.
Day after Thanksgiving is when the lights usually go up at our house. This year I did them the weekend before so I didn't have to be commanded by my wife. Weather was decent, iPod was charged, and Jack White kept me company. It was nice not to have my post feast laziness interrupted this year.
ReplyDeletePeer pressure? Bah! No "Lawn War" at my house.
13 out of 40 houses are already decorated as of last night..................twitch
ReplyDeleteYes, I counted.
Well you won't be winning the competition this year with that attitude!!!! Unless you bought an Audi.
ReplyDeletean this will make you twitch too:
.ɹɐǝ ɹnoʎ uı sʇɥbı| ɹnoʎ ʞɔıʇs ob ʍou sɐɯx ʎɹɹǝɯ ɐ noʎ ɥsıʍ ǝʍ
Thank Christ you don't do small talk. I think like Barney on 'how i met your mother', it should be come a 'thing'. Like the Lemon Law, 'no small talk':, the next new thing.
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