Step AWAY From The Christmas Tree and Come Out With Your Hands UP!
Every year, my sister and I relive some things from our past that are funny (to us at least). You 
remember chrysta, you met her in my thanksgiving post about the Green Bean Casserole. When we were growing up, there was never a whole lot of money in the budget for a christmas tree. In fact some years, our trees kinda looked like the classic charlie brown tree. My mom would send us out with a few bucks to buy a Christmas tree. Well trees were expensive and a few bucks didn't go very far.
One year my sister and I decided that we had ENOUGH of this scraggly Christmas tree mess! We also noted that at some point on Christmas eve, all of the lots closed. There would be plenty of leftover trees that no one wanted. We didn't think they would mind if we borrowed one.
So we hop into my 1976 Toyota Corolla (mine was brown with black, red
and grey primer) and we head off to the nearest abandoned Christmas tree lot.
We look around trying to find the perfect tree.
We must have picked the tallest fullest tree on the lot. Thank goodness they left some rope for us to tie it onto the top of the car .
As soon as we pull away from the lot (tires screeching, pine needels flying everywhere) what do we see coming down the street????
You guessed it. The police. 
We thought for sure that we were going to jail. But as fate had it, they waved and rode on by us. Pheww. We went home and decorated the tree. The next morning when my mother got up, she was shocked to see the tree and wondered where did it come from. It is just recently that we shared with her the story of our Christmas Tree Caper.
Life is short. Say please and thank you. Smile and enjoy yourself.
I hope everyone enjoys their Christmas
Leander McClain, Burlington Township Realtor & Real Estate Consultant, EXIT Buyers Plus Realty, 15 E. Broad Street, Burlington, NJ 08016 609-505-6578(cell)
What a story! Good thing it didn't have a bad ending in the clink!
It is always fun to relive memories around the holidays. Merry Christmas.
Hi Leander,
I always wondered about that, too. All those trees just sitting there, gone to waste. Who's gonna buy a tree after the lot closes on Christmas Eve? No one! I'm glad you got your tree and I'm glad the coppers were just waving hello. The Christmas Tree Caper was a fun read!
Too funny. Hey, you have to do what you have to do.
That is a funny story and worth a good laugh I am sure. Have safe and happy holiday as well Leander
Bo
Leander- that is the most wonderful story. Thank you for sharing it. It reminds me of some of the things that I've just recently shared with my own mother about ummm.... some of the "stuff" I got away with. Turns out she really knew a lot of it.