The house nearly opposite us has put up some Christmas lights in their front garden - fairy lights in the tree, a couple of little reindeer things made of lights and lights spelling out Ho Ho Ho! in their front garden. It doesn’t look too ott, it’s not flashing and there are only a couple of blue lights scattered across tree and hidden in with other colours.
But....... they have put the Ho Ho Ho! to face their house. So from anywhere other than their kitchen it looks like it says !oH oH oH. They have admittedly switched them off for the night now but I know they’ll be back on tomorrow and I don’t want to look at !oH oH oH for the next month.
Would this drive you mad? Dm says I’m overreacting because I’ve been curtain twitching all evening hoping they’ll realise and turn them around. Or maybe they’ve done it on purpose 
. Front garden lights are definitely for the benefit of others and you place them based on how they’ll be viewed from a passerby’s POV don’t you? Or have I got it completely wrong and you put them up so they look nice when you look out of your own window?
I’d like to go around and ask them about it but I don’t know them and am a complete coward.