Deck the Garage With Bulbs That Light Up...

Sometime’s the obvious, isn’t.

The spouse and I aren’t going all out with the hall-decking this year. It’s just the two of us and the fur-bearing creature that’s taken over our home. We could put up a tree, just to give Rex something to take down, but it’s probably better for all of us if we keep everything simple and out of reach.

As I refuse to be identified in our neighborhood as “the one that lives in the dark, unlit house” I convinced the tall one to help me hang some lights, garland and a couple of wreaths over the garage door. It’s the least we could do.

He had a moment’s inspiration and decided we’d even change the bulbs in the lanterns to green or red ones. How festive!

We changed out the lightbulbs and… voila!

Nothing.

They didn’t come on.

At all.

Well of course they didn’t, we’d turned the switch off.

We turned it on and tried again.

Nothing.

Which led to a whole weekend’s worth of investigation and accusations including but not limited to:

What did you do?

Did you touch something?

Did you DO something to the switch?

Are you SURE you turned it on?

Are you sure you turned on the RIGHT one?

Did you jiggle it?

Three years in this house and all of a sudden flipping on the garage lights requires mechanical ingenuity? Ah, there’s nothing quite like a little holiday decorating to bring a family closer together.

In the end it turns out that dropping a sack of new bulbs might not be good for them. Or they were defective to start with No matter, another trip to the hardware store and a couple of replacements later and the Griswold’s have their moment of enchantment.

Which only goes to prove my point. When it comes to the holidays? You must never give up!

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