We're told the neighbors haven't approached Maria directly yet because they like her and don't want to hurt her feelings ... but in typical passive aggressive neighborly fashion, they're hoping word will make its way back to her.How do you solve a problem like Maria? How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?
March 28, 2013
Maria Shriver still has her Christmas lights up.
And the neighbors are annoyed.
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I took down the last of my outside decorations last week. It's just been too cold and snowy to attend to it before that.
Frankly, though, if a neighbor told me they didn't like that my decorations were still up, I'd tell them I welcomed their help in taking them down.
A good neighbor ignores the harmless idiosyncracies of the people who live nearby. Maria Shriver's neighbors don't sound very neighborly to me.
I wouldn't say anything.
We live in an established (1929) country club suburban 'hood where someone has had a tarp on their golf course house view roof for years. The roof is brown, the tarp is brown, and the house is brown so it is hard to see.
Every time my FIL, who lives in a new "homeowners asociation" country club 'hood comes over he looks at my yard (99% mown weed) and says: don't the neighbors complain?
It's not that we are tatty, it's that we are relaxed. Like a good pair of eating pants at Thanksgiving.
Vive le differeance.
-XC
Passive aggressive?
Makes me want to puke.
She's declared herself Ice Queen.
If the neighbor's noisy the noise will intrude into your residence, and if it's annoying you need to talk to them.
But if they still have Christmas lights up? Don't look at 'em.
It's not just a matter of not taking them down, they're being turned on.
I'd guess she imagine them not to be Christmas lights, but more light-lights, like on a restaurant patio. They're all white, not colored.
Maria Shriver still has her Christmas lights up.
So do I. Big deal. I might take them down April 1.
So...does she turn them on at night?
I see she does. I think it's festive!
It's always Christmas in heaven.
Ya mean there is no law making it illegal?
Quick call the newspapers... call Bloomberg.
Somebody better get cracking!
Why not leave them up from Halloween to Easter?
It looked light out in photo #7, i wonder if they are on all of the time. If she's replacing bulbs/strings of lights, then she must think of them as decorative in a non-Christmas way.
Maybe it makes taking photos of her or her house more difficult in the evening or early morning.
I've been looking at solar powered led Christmas lights so that I can afford to leave them up and lit year round. I would consider this a gift to my neighbors.
She's a redneck woman. Nothing wrong with that.
There are still a few up in my neighborhood - I find it kind of refreshingly offbeat.
She may well be one of the few people who have Christmas lights up on Jesus' actual birthday.
"Moonbeam" Does the new Governor live down the street?
So do I! [I don't have time to take them down AND comment here everyday heh].
They're white. People pay good money to eat at restaurants with ambiance like that.
They look nice. Brighten the neighborhood.
I have white LEDs scattered across the bay window in the bathroom still.
She could unplug them.
But why?
(Funny how lefties are always so ... mmmm ... judgmental.)
One April day a few years ago, Mr. Irene was on the front lawn, removing our Christmas lights. A walker paused and quipped, "Running a little late, huh?!" Mr. Irene responded, "No, I'm getting an early start."
How do you solve a problem like Maria?
How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?
With the Christmas-lights nuns / nazis I suppose?
Shanty Irish.
All alone in the big house, husband gone or out philandering, children elsewhere not sure where, servants ... um, wherever it is that servants go when they're not serving or screwing husband. Lying on the couch in the dark, slowly turning the lights on, lights off, lights on, lights off.
Have everybody who drives past hold up a sign that says, "Take down the lights".
ndspinelli said...
Shanty Irish.
They always were.
How do you solve a problem like Maria?
Hey Cryptkeeper! Take down your f-in' lights before I rip them down myself!
Arnold used to handle stuff like that.
Passive agressive is the way to go. The neighbors should gather together, go to her house, ring her doorbell, and, when she opens the door, sing Christmas carols.
"How do you solve a problem like Maria? How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?"
Wrong governor.
On the 94th day of Christmas
My true love sent to me
Ninety-four irritated, fuming, mad, livid, irate, heated, gnashing teeth, cross, furious, incensed, enraged, outraged, infuriated, ireful, wrathful, indignant, choleric
neighbors a caroling....
Many a thing you know you'd like to tell her.
Many a thing she ought to understand.
But how do you make her stay?
And listen to all you say?
How do you keep a wave upon the sand?
Does this mean I have to go take that last string of lights off the hedge?
She could put a big sleigh outside with a bunny in it. Have it holding a flag, and it could stay there through July. Then add some hay bales and pumpkins. Then put a scary mask on the bunny. Really she and those lights could be set year round.
Sartre' is supposed to have said 'Other people are hell.' I would agree and add that HOAs are extra Hell. They all go though a soviet stage.
Honestly. who gives a shit?
I would leave mine up but my wife gets tired of them and takes them down. Whats wrong with brightly colored, happy lights? Our kitty loves the tree and my wife professes to love our kitty. Then why does she want to deprive the kitty of a place to hide and attack from?
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