The Christmas Tree Police

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to create a national Christmas tree police force that would issue citations to businesses and institutions that put up Christmas decorations before a specific agreed upon date somewhere near Thanksgiving? Should there be jail time for repeat offenders? Would you help organize national boycotts of businesses who put up Christmas trees too early?</p><p id="1149">The nice thing about seeing Christmas decorations up in the middle of October is that it gives us a chance to <b>OBSERVE</b> our reactions. Many won’t take that opportunity. They simply react.</p><p id="9ce2">So how did I react? Well, after the disorientation dissipated I chuckled. I chuckled as I imagined how other people would react. I chuckled as I remembered how I would have reacted ten, twenty, thirty, forty, and fifty years ago. I definitely would have been annoyed and in need of venting. I chuckled even more as I realized how far I have come since those days and that there may actually be some hope for me after all.</p><p id="0327">Then, after the chuckling, an idea came to me. I realized that mid-October Post Office Christmas tree would be a great subject for an article on my favori

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te internet writing platform!</p><p id="5397">Like my late humpbacked great uncle Bartholomew always used to say, “Everything has a silver lining.”</p><p id="bad6">Sometimes that silver lining comes in the form of tinsel.</p><p id="4140">So how do you react?</p><p id="3f67"><i>P. S. Now I’m wondering how I will react if that Christmas tree is still there come March.</i></p><p id="9645"><i>Copyright by <a href="https://readmedium.com/white-feather-archive-index-c95167f7dbaf"><b>White Feather</b></a>. All Rights Reserved.</i></p><p id="6a5d"><i>Speaking of holidays…</i></p><div id="ff0b" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/let-the-halloween-stories-begin-b8055a8b1e4a"> <div> <div> <h2>Let the Halloween Stories Begin</h2> <div><h3>It’s not too early is it?</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*lZAGRkSWiWH_Gxu3jaxKNQ.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

Where are they when you need them?

Yesterday, October 18th, I spotted the first Christmas tree of the upcoming holiday season. October 18th! Sixty-eight days BEFORE Christmas! It’s not even Halloween yet!

The fully decorated Christmas tree was in the lobby of our local Post Office. Upon first seeing it I became a little disoriented. Did I take a nap and accidentally sleep for two months or something?

How do you react when you see Christmas decorations being displayed so very early before Christmas? Does it annoy you? Do you become outraged? Incensed? Do you write a nasty letter to the editor of your local newspaper complaining about it? Do you complain to everyone you meet for the rest of the day? Do you gather with friends to plan protests? Do you petition your congresswoman to create a national Christmas tree police force that would issue citations to businesses and institutions that put up Christmas decorations before a specific agreed upon date somewhere near Thanksgiving? Should there be jail time for repeat offenders? Would you help organize national boycotts of businesses who put up Christmas trees too early?

The nice thing about seeing Christmas decorations up in the middle of October is that it gives us a chance to OBSERVE our reactions. Many won’t take that opportunity. They simply react.

So how did I react? Well, after the disorientation dissipated I chuckled. I chuckled as I imagined how other people would react. I chuckled as I remembered how I would have reacted ten, twenty, thirty, forty, and fifty years ago. I definitely would have been annoyed and in need of venting. I chuckled even more as I realized how far I have come since those days and that there may actually be some hope for me after all.

Then, after the chuckling, an idea came to me. I realized that mid-October Post Office Christmas tree would be a great subject for an article on my favorite internet writing platform!

Like my late humpbacked great uncle Bartholomew always used to say, “Everything has a silver lining.”

Sometimes that silver lining comes in the form of tinsel.

So how do you react?

P. S. Now I’m wondering how I will react if that Christmas tree is still there come March.

Speaking of holidays…