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December 23, 2004
A Couchwork Orange
For 22 of the 25 Christmas Eves of my life, we've gone over the creek and through The Pines to grandmother's house. Grandma lives in the Indiana snowbelt and gets far more snow than we do 30 miles SW, meaning she often has a white Christmas. If you're looking for evidence that today's kids are spoiled, consider this. When I was a pup and we went to grandma's, we had dinner and *then* opened presents, usually at a late hour like 19h00. Nowadays, the rugrats open presents *before* dinner, usually around 15h00. The next generation will probably start opening presents Christmas Eve morning, or maybe even on 23 Dec. How spoiled and overindulged.
There was one area where the 1980-1986 generation was spoiled, namely the orange couch. My two brothers and two cousins could all sit on this orange couch and open presents thereupon. Then, one day, it was gone, nothing but a dusty outline from where the couch had been stolen by some na'er-do-well. Grandma said that she "gave it to a nice colored man whose family's house burned down." I have spent the last decade searching for this family--with whom I would happily swap the old orange couch for a sweet new leather model--to no avail. If anyone knows someone with a kick-ass old orange couch, please e-mail me.
Posted by adrianjo at December 23, 2004 10:34 PM
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