Friday, December 9, 2011

The Season of Exasperation

A first, perhaps?--My hairdresser returned his Christmas tree.  A real one.  It was too short  for the room and the branches didn't hold up under the ornaments. He got a taller one and brought it home, scratching his newly refinished floors.   He painstakingly threaded strings of lights through the branches.  When he finished, the tree lights went off. He re-worked all the plugs on the strings. The lights came back on.  He decorated the tree.  All the lights went off.

He's put in 7-1/2 hours of work on the tree, and the lights are still hit-or-miss.  He says when Christmas is over, he's throwing out the lights with the tree.

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