Holiday Inflation

 
I love watching the Macy's Day Thanksgiving Parade, especially the big balloons! And who can forget the Seinfeld episode where Mr. Pitt won a spot handling one of the ropes on the Woody Woodpecker balloon?? Classic! Everybody loves balloons, right?
But what about those gigantic, inflatable "things" that are so popular during the Christmas season? What's with those? I mean, first of all, very few people keep them inflated during the day so as you drive by their house you think, "Hey, somebody threw trash on their lawn!" Or, "There's a pile of clothes on that lawn. Somebody's out there runnin' around naked!" At night, all these inflatables rise out of the lawns like the Great Pumpkin rising out of the pumpkin patch and proceed to sway and weave in the wind like giant, mutant oranments. Oppenheimer the Elf, "AAAAGGH! Santa! Santa! Code Purple! Nuclear disaster at the ornament shop!!" "Calm down, Oppy, let me think! I know! Those people down there will buy anything during the holiday season! Box up all the mutants and deliver them to places like...well, you know the places I mean. Begins with W and ends with mart?" 
I love it when the wind blows and all the inflatables look like they've been on a three day bender. "HO! HO! HOOOOOOOOOO  WHOOOOOOOOAAAAAA! Yeehaw! Wheee! Santa sure loves his egg nog!"
And what about all the energy that people waste on those things? I mean, you have to keep a fan running in order to keep the danged things up! They must have electric bills to rival the Griswolds.
Well, to each their own, I guess. Still......I can't help thinking every year, "Boy, I wish I had a Red Ryder BB gun right about now....."
INFLATION...it ain't always about the money.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!