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They'll Know It's Christmas Without the Inflatable Nativity

Posted by JeanneSager

I haven't gotten the courage to ask my neighbors where they found the blow-up nativity. I'm kind of curious. Do you have to order them specially-made off of the Internet? Does the blow-up baby Jesus come separate so you can stick him in on Christmas morn?

Do you think the kids will respond better to the virgin birth of a living God through giant plastic and an air compressor?

Egging me on to ask these burning questions is one of my favorite time wasters blogs, the ever-hiliarous passive aggressive notes, which this week shared the giant yard sign erected by a mom fed up with those holiday grinches who dare sneak into her yard and steal one of the approximately seven trillion towering plastic candy canes. 

Allow me to present Exhibit A (courtesy of Passive Aggressive Notes, natch):

 As they at Passive Aggressive so wisely (OK, so snarkily) put it, "poor little boy. now he’s not going to know it’s christmas.”

Yes, poor child indeed. His mother spent her whole holiday vacation decorating the yard with tasteless junk, and all he got was this damn letter in his defense. Do parents really think their kids care as much as they do about the holiday hoop-la (gifts aside)?

Image:  OogaLights

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Comments

 

Karen said:

Lowe's.

December 24, 2008 11:10 AM
 

julie00 said:

Oh man, we had a single snowman on our yard (by request of our 5-year-old son) and one night someone just smashed it into pieces and stole his hat.  Totally random act of "violence."  Our son _was_ saddened by it, but we rebuilt it and it now stands again, kinda wonky-looking but defiant.  That made my son feel better.

But honestly, wasn't that kinda assholic?

December 24, 2008 12:53 PM
 

Sherry said:

Um, what? You and the blog you linked to are really doing nothing but bashing people for decorating for Christmas but yet people vandilizing and stealing other people's property is fine?  If holiday lawn decorations annoy you don't look, but being a snarky a-hole towards these people is really uncalled for.  Just because you or someone else thinks these things are ugly/stupid/whatever doesn't give anyone the right to destroy or steal other people's property.

December 24, 2008 9:01 PM

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Jeanne Sager is a writer who lives in upstate New York with her husband, daughter, a dog and too many cats. She refuses to believe motherhood comes with pumpkin appliqued sweaters, and she';s not ready to apologize for having only one child. She writes about raising her kid in her own hometown and the mom stuff she's not embarrassed to own at her blog, Inside Out (http://jeannesager.blogspot.com), she's contributing editor of Grand Magazine, and she's a regular essayist here on Babble

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