Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Does Ramsay Street ever deal with this?

I don't know what my neighbours look like but I don't really care. All I know is that their efforts to beat us in the great unspoken Decorations War of 2005 are rather lame.
Our apartments are mirror images of one another, and our Christmas Trees occupy identical spaces in the sunrooms that face out onto Grace Street. Mine is, and I say this without any trace of bias, superior in shape, decoration, sparkle intensity, and purity of Christmas spirit.
Our neighbour's tree, by contrast, is dull and its adornments are nowhere near as luminous as ours. I have also been surrepticiously peeking at the other decorations adorning the neighbour's front room, and have been smugly laughing to myself. There are no stockings, no Santas, no Christmas baubles, no festive photo frames, no yuletide candles. Unlike my house.
I wonder if my neighbour knows that he is party to this Christmas battle? Probably not, but it matters little to me. I'm too chock-full of the spirit of the season to care about others right now!

6 comments:

kilabyte said...

'Tis the season to be jolly, fulalalahh .... and good cheer to all men ..... including the little blonde ditz who has seen one too many National Lampoons .... On ya Griswold.

Anonymous said...

I think you need to socialise more.....the snow is freezing your brain! :p

Anonymous said...

I'm not sure that "competitiveness in Xmas decorations" was taught at St Dominics was it???

Anonymous said...

Gaarbi,
I think in the spirit of Christmas and goodwill and kindness to others, you should invite your neighbours in for a Xmas drink and that way they can see up close how much better your decorations are.

kilabyte said...

Yeah, right .... wot the last guy just said !!!! Remember the Seinfeld episode .... and Norman ......

Anonymous said...

How un-christian can you get "Anonymous" aka Mum?! And to think we could possibly be related (I'm still in denial.)

It's times like these I wish you DID swap me for the 4 camels and 2 goats the travelling band of gypsies were offering.

Might I add, they were only offering 1 camel for Gabi! :)