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I see it...

by Stephanie Wiebe

There oughta be a bylaw —

Last week,I heard it on the |
radio. Yesterday I saw more
evidence in the store. Yes, it’s”
beginning already. Only three
months until it’s Christmas again.
Just think, it’s actually tess than
three short months, that’s twelve
quick weeks, or merely 715»

_ Shopping hours. I’m not sure
‘what that amounts to in "dog"
years, but apparently it’s not far
away, because the Christmas tree
ornaments are up for sale, and the
Sears Christmas "Wish" book has
. been delivered, and I heard a

Christmas. ad on the radio last
week,

~ Christmas. It feels like light

years away. There will be lots of

parties, snow, and it will seem
like the world is dark out all the
time. I can barely imagine. After
. all, the kids just started school,
we haven’t even thought about

Thanksgiving or Hallowe’en yet, by-law against the display of

but I guess Christmas will be’
_ here in the wink of an eye.

_It’s strange — I really don’t like

to be reminded of Christmas now.
_ It’s difficult enough to deal with —
“the fact that summer has come —
and gone.
To make it worse, my husband
put up the outdoor Christmas

- lights last Sunday. I watched him —

drag out the ladder on a warm

- Autumn afiernoon, and as the
wire of coloured lights hung
down, sparkling in the sunshine,

some of them. dragging in a bed

~-O€ still-blooming marigolds, I
could almost hear the "Twilight
Zone" theme music playing
‘softly, and then "The Little
Drummer Boy". I thought I heard
a voice in the warm breeze,
"Come, they told me, pa rum -

. pum pum pum...only $2 days left,
‘pa rum pum pum pum...”

_* Surely I’m not alone in my

_ dismay over this premature
holiday behavior. It has occurred

- fo me that this practice of rushing

Christmas should be made illegal,
if not punishable by some drastic

measure. Perhaps offenders could |

be shut in a dark, cold closet and
forced to listen to Bing Crosby’s

"White Christmas" over and over —

again, on August ist of the year

following their offense. And

remembering that we have a new
by-law enforcement officer, I
wondered what the procedure
would be to enact a new by-law -

an Anti-Early Christmas by-law. I

had a vision of an officer
approaching my up-the-ladder
husband, while the children
frantically ask, "What did Daddy
do, Mom? Was he bad?"

"Yes, children,” I would reply,

. "he has committed a serious
offence and now he must pay the
. price."

The officer would stand at the

foot of the ladder, surveying the .
' criminal act in progress. "I’m

sure you are aware that there’s a

Christmas paraphenalia before
November 1st. I'll have to

_confiscate those lights, sir," the

officer would say.

Caught red-handed, my husband
would remove the offending
string of lights from the window-
frame. “How did you know?" he
would ask, handing over the
contraband. "Who was the low-
down Scrooge of a rat that
turned me in?"

The officer would glance up at
me, and our eyes would lock for
a moment. "That’s not public
information, sir." Then my
husband would be "cuffed" and

taken away.

Perhaps when that first flake of

- snow falls, I'll feel differently. 1

might feel relieved that. the

Christmas lights are already put

up. Maybe in December, I'll wish
I'd bought those tree ornaments
back in the fall when they first
came out on the shelf.
Or maybe not. To everything -

there is a season — and this is

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