UPSIDE DOWN: Keep your eyes peeled during the upcoming holiday
shopping season for the absolute latest in home decoration:
upside-down Christmas trees.
Or so they say.
National Public Radio carried a feature story the other day
about the popularity of these trees which, as would seem likely,
hang upside down from the ceiling. Not only does this create more
floor space, but puts your best ornaments at eye-level.
We have to reason to doubt this report – It’s nowhere near April
Fool’s Day – but in our shopping this season, we’ve yet to
encounter one of these novelties.
On the other hand, the report indicated that they are selling
like hot cakes and retailers cannot keep them on the shelf.
This craze got started when one of the larger department stores
began inverting the trees, mostly to make additional room for
retail displays. Some of the shoppers must have liked the tree
better than the merchandise and the frenzy began.
So if you see proof of this phenomenon, let us know.
Meanwhile, NPR did pose on question that would be difficult to
answer: Where would you “hang” the star?
NEXT CHAPTER: It wasn’t long ago that we passed along a story
about a truck driver who stopped at the local McDonald’s and was
treated to a free meal from a young Bradford couple.
Howard Snyder, the truck driver who had been delivering to
Georgia-Pacific, saw out report in Round the Square and called us
with another chapter in the story.
The Sunday after the “good deed,” Howard and his wife when to
WalMart in their home in Cranberry. As they were returning to their
car, they saw one of the store carts “shooting across the parking
lot” and about to ram a parked vehicle full force.
“At the rate of speed it was traveling, I thought it would
probably even cause the airbags to deploy,” Howard reports – a
costly repair job. And so he intervened and “brought it to a
halt.”
“In my small way, I tried to pay back (the act of generosity in
Bradford) and I will continue to do other small acts of
kindness.”
Howard added: “I hope we have a movement started – maybe a
revolution.”
It wasn’t too many years ago when there was such a movement
concerning “random acts of kindness” – as opposed to “random acts
of violence.” An excellent concept.
