Grand Avenue by Mike Thompson for November 25, 2012
November 24, 2012
November 26, 2012
Transcript:
Kids, let's go to the Christmas tree lot! Can we get an artificial tree instead? But think of the memories we'll make! Like last year when the tree fell off the top of your car? Or the year before when we couldn't get the tree in the door? And it wouldn't fit in the tree stand! Or that time the tree tipped over? Or the time it lost all its needles? C'mon kids, Christmas comes but once a year! So does tax day. And no one goes out of their way to make it worse.
Michael Thorton almost 12 years ago
It’s a WHOLE MONTH TOO EARLY! Why slaughter the poor pines NOW?
Rodney99 almost 12 years ago
I have to agree with the kids on this one…
RonBerg13 Premium Member almost 12 years ago
I beg your pardon… The government goes out of its way to make tax day worse every year.
Reynie almost 12 years ago
Apparently, the world will end on Dec. 21. Why buy a tree?
Perkycat almost 12 years ago
One can always hope this year will be perfect. The memories are important – even the bad ones.
Comic Minister Premium Member almost 12 years ago
(sigh).
MelvinLott almost 12 years ago
This song sums up the holiday season pretty well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew6rVcL3Up8
ARF2 almost 12 years ago
Get a Christmas tree on Thanksgiving weekend , and the world will end on 22 Dec 2012, when the tree catches fire!
Hunter7 almost 12 years ago
When we bought live, it was a week before Christmas. If the house was warm, we would have to give it a quart of water every 2-4 hours. …. Would still leave a bundle of needles when taken out on the Epiphany.
Saucy1121 Premium Member almost 12 years ago
When we had cut trees, we’d get them early and put them in a bucket of water under the car port. Better soaking up water in some shade than drying out on the lot. It would get decorated 10-14 days before Christmas. It came down on New Year’s Day.A few years before she passed away, my Mom talked me into an artificial tree (we’d had one years before and it finally fell apart). I agreed on the conditions that it be pre-lit and go up the day after Thanksgiving. Now that I’m by myself, I do admit that the fake tree is easier for 1 person to handle.
QuietStorm27 almost 12 years ago
Artificial for me! I do miss the smell of pine from when I was a kid, but I don’t miss cleaning up the needles!
zoidknight almost 12 years ago
Now that is always fun.