There is a right way and a wrong way to string lights on a Christmas tree, which is why I don't ever let anyone else touch the lights for the trees except for my father, who taught me in the first place*. So, I was very confused on Sunday when putting up the agent's tree. I had four strings of neatly wrapped lights, and one string of inexplicably tangled completely disorganized lights. "I can't figure out how this happened," I told the agent. "Why would I have done this? And with just one string of lights?"
"Maybe I was trying to help you or something," he said, "and you made me stop because you thought I was doing it wrong."
I considered this. "Maybe, but I think even then I would have taken it away from you and bossily redid it the way I wanted it in the first place."
*This came about in high school when I decided that a 10 foot tree in the family room and an 8 foot tree in the living room was not nearly enough trees, and that we clearly needed another 8 foot tree in my bedroom, to which my father responded "Do it yourself. There's no way I'm putting lights on another damn tree."
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Your whole family is like this! I thought your brother was just a weirdo for slapping my hands away from the lights last year.
Also, he re-packs lights better than the manufacturer originally packed them. I don't know how this is possible, but I suspect you do the same.
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