Christmas lights.
Some people hang half a dozen coloured lights across the guttering on the front of their home.
Others turn the front of their home into a Hollywood spectacular.
It’s a free country, right, and we can all do what we want.
But that’s fine for the people who go to a bit of trouble at this time of the year to tell the story of the birth of Jesus Christ through an electronic display on their front wall.
What about the rest of us?
The ones who for one reason or another don’t lift a finger to decorate our homes with Christmas snow, flashing lights and a Santa who says ho ho ho Merry Christmas.
We still love Christmas but our love doesn’t extend to going that far.
But some of us will go pretty far check out known hotspots of homes with Christmas lights.
That’s right, we just want to look at the Christmas lights of other people.
Well, isn’t that why other people decorate their homes with Christmas lights? To attract visitors to their front who will gawk at the flashing lights while their kids run amok.
[social_quote duplicate=”no” align=”default”]Some will even bring a six pack and have a beer or two, sometimes leaving the empties behind.[/social_quote]
This, you see, is the downside of Christmas lights.
Not all visitors are rude enough to let their kids run wild or to leave their rubbish behind, but some sure do.
I read in a social media blog a few days ago that some homeowners with Christmas lights are getting fed up with some of the viewing audience.
Bad luck, I guess, if you live in a culdesac and you’re the only house out of four or five which doesn’t have a lights display.
But I wouldn’t worry about it too much, just remember that everything in life has an upside and a downside.
You could almost argue that is the meaning of life, but let’s not get too profound here.
One last thing: with 15 days to the big day, is it too early to wish everyone Merry Christmas?
