Target has had their Christmas stuff out for weeks--I think they put it out with the Halloween stuff (you didn't know Nightmare Before Christmas was so influential, did you?)--so I figure I'm well within my rights to post a Christmas picture. Well, another Christmas picture, since the beer tree has already made an appearance.
Anyway, this is another one from the "A Christmas Story" chapter of my book--the upside down stencils.
For instance, the enterprising management office for our apartment complex had used red spray paint to stencil Christmas wreaths — complete with bells — on every window in every lobby of every building, but had put most of them upside down, presumably because none of them had actually seen a real Christmas wreath and didn't know any better.
I don't know why, but for some reason this cracked me up more than anything else about that Christmas--so close, and yet so far ...
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