[HPforGrownups] Christmas traditions elsewhere (OT)

[Dinah]

No: HPFGUIDX 7291

> Since I loved her very deeply indeed, I allowed
> her to slip in a romantic cd, turn down the lights and light her candles.
> And I spent the next ten minutes prowling back andforth in front of the
> tree, clenching the sand bucket in white-fisted agony. After ten minutes,
> she blew them all out and went for a long walk. (Alone.)
> BTW, since she loved *me* very deeply, instead of calling it quits then
and
> there, she found a shop in Bern that sold electric lights. I've enjoyed
our
> trees ever since.

May I share a little Christmas Anecdote at this point? My aunt uses real
candles and two or three years ago one of my cousins (both are adults, so
it's not about children being uncareful), while picking up a present from
under the tree, set her hair on fire and my other cousin who had just
unpacked her christmas presetn, a nice book, used this book to butt out the
fire on her sister's head. Struck dead vs. Burnt, great perspectives here
<g>

Dinah