We own a fake tree, but my wife has a hankerin’ for a real tree this year. God knows why, they’re as much of a pain in the ass as the fake one, but whatever. So I was out pricing trees and people should seriously go to hell for such a ripoff. $70 for a 7-foot tree that’s going to live three weeks max? I don’t think so - homie don’t play that.
I’m still searching, but it’s nearly too late, and all the nice ones are ridiculously priced - except for the ones that are just outside of Searcy, about 25 feet off of Highway 67, which as far as I can tell, have no pricetags on them at all. So, what I’m wondering is this: if I happened to be driving along the highway at 2 a.m. or so, and needed to stop to see if I had a flat, and I happened to have a chainsaw with me, and accidentally cut down the perfect Christmas tree and stuffed it into my truck and drove away, do you suppose I would be violating any state laws and/or making baby Jesus cry?
But if you do that, then you’re robbing one of the pricetag-ladden trees of their destiny. They’re meant to be in someone’s home for Christmas, and if they don’t make it, then it’s a one-way ticket to the wood chipper. Yeah, they’re all going there anyway, but give one of the poor trees …
…ah fuck it. Cut down a real tree and don’t worry about it.
[quote]Cunnivore wrote:
We own a fake tree, but my wife has a hankerin’ for a real tree this year. God knows why, they’re as much of a pain in the ass as the fake one, but whatever. So I was out pricing trees and people should seriously go to hell for such a ripoff. $70 for a 7-foot tree that’s going to live three weeks max? I don’t think so - homie don’t play that.
I’m still searching, but it’s nearly too late, and all the nice ones are ridiculously priced - except for the ones that are just outside of Searcy, about 25 feet off of Highway 67, which as far as I can tell, have no pricetags on them at all. So, what I’m wondering is this: if I happened to be driving along the highway at 2 a.m. or so, and needed to stop to see if I had a flat, and I happened to have a chainsaw with me, and accidentally cut down the perfect Christmas tree and stuffed it into my truck and drove away, do you suppose I would be violating any state laws and/or making baby Jesus cry?
Just wondering, thanks.[/quote]
Chances are its illegal.
Stop being such a cheap bastard. Your wife asked for something that will make her holidays happier and you’re refusing? What a husband. You’re probably going to give her cash for Xmas also huh?
Chances are its illegal.
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You are probably right. But then again, if I might misquote the great Mr. Rather out of context, I really think that I can be an honest man and still steal any number of things.
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Stop being such a cheap bastard. Your wife asked for something that will make her holidays happier and you’re refusing? What a husband. Did you her her a gift certificate for Xmas also?[/quote]
Your heart is definitely in the right place, which I can appreciate, but you might replace the epithet “cheap” above with “poor” and be more accurate. The way I see it, a tree is a tree is a tree, and the price tag should not increase it’s value one iota.
To answer your other (blatantly accusatory) question, I’m getting her a rather beautiful Aquamarine ring from a reputable jewelry dealer, and thanks for your concern.
if you buy that aquamarine ring from a slightly less reputable dealer (read out of a trunk of off the back of a truck) you might be able to afford the $70 tree.
[quote]m0dd3r wrote:
if you buy that aquamarine ring from a slightly less reputable dealer (read out of a trunk of off the back of a truck) you might be able to afford the $70 tree.[/quote]
Yeah, but then he’s still breaking a state law and making baby Jesus cry.
Take the tree and come back to bury the cones next spring.
if I happened to be driving along the highway at 2 a.m. or so, and needed to stop to see if I had a flat, and I happened to have a chainsaw with me, and accidentally cut down the perfect Christmas tree and stuffed it into my truck and drove away, do you suppose I would be violating any state laws and/or making baby Jesus cry?
Just wondering, thanks.[/quote]
Sounds like a Simpson’s episode!
I reckon any reason to use a chainsaw is a good reason…Just watch out for Mayor Quimby and the cheap hooker off in the bushes!
I got a 7 footer at a mom and pop tree farm for $40. I got a cypress so there are no falling needles.
The tree places that set up shop for 4 weeks are a rip off.
Nothing beats a real tree.[/quote]
You know, it’s funny, when I was a kid living up in Cleveland, nobody I knew had a real Christmas tree. My parents dragged me down here to Florida when I was 11, and I hear all of this, “it’s just not Christmas without a real tree” nonsense.
Ironic that more people seem to want them in a place they do not grow.
this thread pisses me off. here in marietta ga it is hard to find a nice real tree for less than 100$. i think my parents tree cost 125$ for a 6 foot and talked the price down to 100$.
im glad all i need to celebrate my winter holiday is an aluminum pole.