It’s been a while since our neighbors across the street have put up any of those awful inflatable seasonal yard things that Cindy’s mentioned. For Halloween this year, they put out a giant inflatable castle-themed archway for their front door, and a big inflatable jack-o-latern for the lawn. They were up for a week before a few straight days of severe winds thrashed the things, and for the last two weeks they’ve remained right where they deflated.
Everyday, as we pull into our driveway, I look at our neighbors’ yard, checking the status of the inflatables because this isn’t the first time their yard decor ( ‘yard decor’ sounds better if you say it with a French accent; if you don’t like using a French accent, you can call it ‘freedom decor’) has collapsed, so I know one of two things will happen:
One, they’ll leave the inflatable castle entrance and jack-o-lantern where they are, and then inflate them a day or two before Halloween to reduce the chances of another round of winds tearing them up.
Or two — and this is my favorite of the two because it’s so white trashy — they will leave them alone, and on Halloween they’ll be there, crumpled masses of gray and orange plastic, one on the porch, the other on the lawn. That’s kind of scary, isn’t it?
The second scenario has been played out more than a few times, so now I’m always amazed that they even bother trying to put anything out whenever a major holiday rolls around. I figure at some point they’ll begin streamlining the process. One of these days we’ll be sitting on the front steps, and we’ll see them pull into their driveway, get out of the truck with a couple of brand new inflatable yard ornaments, which they will promptly take out of the boxes and immediately throw on the lawn in a rumpled pile of tastelessness.
Done and done.
UPDATE: It’s Sunday afternoon, and they’re setting the stuff up, so it looks like it’s Scenario #1 for Halloween this year.
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They also have a giant inflatable Frankenstein monster.
Your comment about “freedom decor” literally made me laugh out loud. I even passed a little gas, although that might have been unrelated. :p
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