Christmas wrongness

[glitterkitty]

Just been to our local shopping centre. Blue fairy lights. Purple/lilac/pink GIANT balls hanging from ceiling. Sorry but XMAS FAIL.

Tell me your stories/ spottings of Chrismas wronness....

I thought Santa on a jet ski was very wrong on holiday one year.

Ds's school nativity being based on storybook characters. He is daddy bear.

I was driving through town after dark with dd and went on the route of the christmas lights so she could see them. She's just young enough to be impressed, it's not exactly las vegas. She started shouting 'A CARROT mummy!'. I looked at where she was pointing, and sure enough the lights were in the shape of a massive christmas...carrot! How festive

Daddy bear actually made me LOL.... [GRIN]

My local garden center has a huge x-mas desplay/shop, lots of lovely themes (different theme is each room) but one of the themes is the beach and fish (shells, deck chairs and bright fish), surely x-mas is about snow and robins?

Seaside is just wrong. As is black & white flock theme, teal blue & black, in fact black per se is just not christmassy.

Our local independant gift shop is selling Christmas Eggs...ceramic egg-shaped boxes (to keep jewellery in, I assume) painted in festive colours. I get confused every time I pass the window display, surely eggs are for Easter?

I was in Yeovil one year at Christmas where one of the big employers is Westlands who make helicopters. Lo and behold one of the Christmas lights was a big lit up helicopter.

Christmas starting too early is also hugely wrong in my opinion - one house in our village had a Christmas wreath on their door last week (it was still November ffs!).

Went up to London with DH work to see a show in London close to one Christmas. We went by coach, and on the way home the driver took us around Oxford St and Regent see the lights. Orange lights, naff ones at that, because they were sponsored by a fizzy drink manufacturer. Utterly un-Christmassy.

about a hundred years ago when i was young the town i lived in had new chrstma decs

someone decided that they needed updating so instead of the big christmas tree we had............

A Large U.F.O / flying saucer

Apparently it was the spaceship Father Christmas used.

Anyway. 3 days after it was put up and the locals had done their faces while standing around looking at it we had a big storm and the UFO crashed to the ground and broke.

It was never repaired and the next year we got our tree back

A department store in Bangkok had a huge pyramid shaped tenty affair with a woman inside it. The tent shaped thing was her skirt. This poor individual's job was to stand there all day. A living sculpture type thing. Very bizzare.