So, Saturday night I noticed that all the Christmas lights on our bushes had gone out. Friday had been torrential rain all day, and I figured something shorted out and I'd have to dig into our decorations box and find the necessary fuse for the relevant string. Didn't think much more about it, because we were hosting friends over the weekend. I meant to go out yesterday and take a look, but after our guests left I was too wiped to deal with it.
So, this morning, before I left to drop off packages at UPS and mail the last couple cards (we'd ordered some fancy ones from Amazon and they hadn't arrived until yesterday), I went to see if I could do a quick diagnosis of the problem.
I could, and did. After a careful inspection I determined that at some point between Friday and Saturday night, some bastard had walked right into our front yard and stolen all the net lights we had draped on the bushes. One bush was decorated with a string run back-and-forth, and he thoughtfully left that one behind, but everything else... gone.
The guy had chutzpah, too, because we were home when he did it.
So, this morning, before I left to drop off packages at UPS and mail the last couple cards (we'd ordered some fancy ones from Amazon and they hadn't arrived until yesterday), I went to see if I could do a quick diagnosis of the problem.
I could, and did. After a careful inspection I determined that at some point between Friday and Saturday night, some bastard had walked right into our front yard and stolen all the net lights we had draped on the bushes. One bush was decorated with a string run back-and-forth, and he thoughtfully left that one behind, but everything else... gone.
The guy had chutzpah, too, because we were home when he did it.
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
