The Holiday Season is WACKY!

[crabapple]

I have this neighbor who hangs the same light string outside his house every year. I'm not sure what it looks like, but I have heard it for several years in a row--at least five years. It's one of those musical light strings, you see, the kind that has a little electronic music box at one end. It plays "Jingle Bells" continuously, a midi version, in those cold, lifeless electronic tones. Of course, you only turn these things on at night, so they'll only play their endlessly repeating tunes when decent folk are supposed to be sleeping. Convenient, huh? It absolutely ruins any quiet a neighborhood might have in the evening.

The really wacky thing is that I am no longer annoyed when I hear it. It drove me bats the first two years. And then, slowly, my annoyance started to fade away. I can't say I enjoy it now, but I really don't mind it.

I'm horrified, however, that anyone could design such a thing. I mean, if it's a light, you don't have to look at it. But it's not so easy to block out the sound of the damn thing! It's a stupid, warped kind of product, and whoever designed it was some sort of monster, don't you think?

[alkytrio666]

You've got a lot of patience, Crabs, my friend! I would have torn the damn thing down.

Good neighbor. You are, that is; he's a bad neighbor.

[crabapple]

Well, I was thinking of sending "Buddy" over there to have, you know, a little chit-chat with the guy. ;)

[alkytrio666]

Hahaha. There goes the neighborhood...

[novakru]

It's the same company that makes those stupid musical DANCING Santa's:mad:

[Phalanx]

It's the same company that makes those stupid musical DANCING Santa's

They look somehow perverted to me...

I don't really like anything bright, overly colourful or flashing - this rules out the majority of Christmas decorations in most places...they're garish and ugly in my honest opinion...
However, if you can go with lights that are smaller, maybe fade in and fade out rather than flashing to give a shimmering effect, some fiber-optic lighting throughout gardens, lawns, walls...etc, a nicely (not overly) decorated tree, darker colour dressings like dark/light hybrid tinsels, externally hooked up speakers to play christmas tunes, the real ones, and not all damn day...intermittantly is fine...see,if you can get something like that going on, you can get something non-offensive, and actually NICE to behold...