reindeer games December 12, 2009
I’m at my mother’s house in Jackson, MS. My mom loves Christmas. She has Christmas decorations in every room. Even the bathrooms have Santa toilet seat covers and Santa soap dispensers. The regular couch pillows have been changed out for red, gold and green ones. The front and back yards are lit up. The tree is loaded down with ornaments. We use the Christmas china for every meal.
For years, mom has put out two wooden reindeer in her front yard every Christmas. They stand on a field of white lights, representing “snow.” Every year, some pervert in this fine up-standing neighborhood sneaks over here in the middle of the night and stands one of the reindeer up on the back of the other one, making it look like they are screwing. What gets into people? Mom has sat up in the dark a few times trying to catch the culprit, but she never has. I’m beginning to think it’s an inside job, except that all the people who live here can barely walk, much less vandalize Christmas decorations.
My mother is more than a little eccentric. Now she has put two reindeer antlers on her car, with the red nose strapped to the front. I was a little embarrassed to go Christmas shopping in the reindeer-mobile, but it makes people laugh and I hardly know anyone here, anyway. We went to one store where there was a woman fighting with her husband. When they came outside and saw the reindeer-mobile, the frown lifted from her face and they both burst out laughing.
Merry Christmas!
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- Author : dangerblond
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Eccentricity in your gene pool? No way…
I grew up in Jackson, too. We see the reindeer-mobiles all over town here in Alabama. They crack me up, although I won’t do that to my poor family.