Christmas Horror House
There is a house that I walk by each day on my route to work that still has all it’s tacky Christmas decorations and ornaments out front of the house. These decorations have been either ignored or forgotten about for the past three months now and have seemingly been left dangling from the eaves and poised in the front yard in anticipation of the next Christmas season only a mere 10 months away I guess.
Now that we are at the end of February, and these decorations have experienced an extra three months of winter wear and tear from the elements, these once happy and festive seasonal statuettes and decorations do not evoke the same sense of holiday magic that they did back in December. Now standing in the thawing snow and slush looking more weathered, they don’t look so cute and endearing without the usual Winter Wonderland around them to enhance their purpose. Instead, these Christmas character decorations have taken on a more ominous air about them, as they now seem to more closely resemble vagrants in the process of sieging the house as opposed to being just popular cutesy Christmas characters in the process of delivering presents and spreading Holiday cheer.
The wooden Santa Claus in particular that they had on the roof searching for the chimney in which to deliver his presents now looks like some unsavory burglar crawling across the roof looking for easy access to the building, or perhaps maybe, if you squint your eyes enough, an incoherent looking Nick Nolte threatening to leap from the roof in some pathetic drunken suicide attempt. Likewise, the reindeers in the yard who were originally dancing and rejoicing together in seasonal splendor now look like drunken brutes staggering over the remaining piles of graying snow and ice in the flower beds.
This house may have been all the envy of the neighborhood back during the Christmas season, but now practically in March, it has more in common with the local crack house that people would cross the street before passing by. I bet even the mailman and the Avon lady by-pass this house now for fear of these same sinister and beaten looking decorations left standing at attention in the yard.
I expect that soon maybe, these Christmas decorations will be taken down replaced with more apprpriate duckies and Easter Bunny’s in anticipation of the approaching Easter Holiday, and then will probably be left up in the house until, say, July.
Now that we are at the end of February, and these decorations have experienced an extra three months of winter wear and tear from the elements, these once happy and festive seasonal statuettes and decorations do not evoke the same sense of holiday magic that they did back in December. Now standing in the thawing snow and slush looking more weathered, they don’t look so cute and endearing without the usual Winter Wonderland around them to enhance their purpose. Instead, these Christmas character decorations have taken on a more ominous air about them, as they now seem to more closely resemble vagrants in the process of sieging the house as opposed to being just popular cutesy Christmas characters in the process of delivering presents and spreading Holiday cheer.
The wooden Santa Claus in particular that they had on the roof searching for the chimney in which to deliver his presents now looks like some unsavory burglar crawling across the roof looking for easy access to the building, or perhaps maybe, if you squint your eyes enough, an incoherent looking Nick Nolte threatening to leap from the roof in some pathetic drunken suicide attempt. Likewise, the reindeers in the yard who were originally dancing and rejoicing together in seasonal splendor now look like drunken brutes staggering over the remaining piles of graying snow and ice in the flower beds.
This house may have been all the envy of the neighborhood back during the Christmas season, but now practically in March, it has more in common with the local crack house that people would cross the street before passing by. I bet even the mailman and the Avon lady by-pass this house now for fear of these same sinister and beaten looking decorations left standing at attention in the yard.
I expect that soon maybe, these Christmas decorations will be taken down replaced with more apprpriate duckies and Easter Bunny’s in anticipation of the approaching Easter Holiday, and then will probably be left up in the house until, say, July.
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