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A couple of the local MENSA members approached me today about buying a pre-lit artificial Christmas tree. The one they wanted was 7 and a half feet tall.
First they had me measure it from the floor to the top, and (Get ready for the shocker of a lifetime here) it was, in fact, 7 and a half feet tall.
As it turned out, the tree would be too tall to fit in the space it was going in. Also, I should point out that pre-lit Christmas trees come in 3 sections or so--not a bunch of color-coded branches that have to be put into the "trunk" one by one. With a pre-lit tree, you just put the bottom piece into the stand, the middle piece into the bottom piece, the top piece into the middle piece, plug everything in, and you're good to go.
The customers' solution to making the tree fit in its spot at their home? Cut off part of the top piece! Meaning they'd either have to CUT THROUGH THE WIRING FOR THE LIGHTS or somehow cut around it, and shove the extraneous lights back down into the trunk.
And even if they managed to do this without frying themselves or burning their house down, it would look like shit. They wouldn't be able to put a star or an angel or anything on top.
They bought the 7 and a half-foot tree. Coincidentally, we had a 6 and a half foot tree that might fit better, but they weren't interested in it. I'm pretty sure I will be reading about these dry-pool diving team members in the paper fairly soon.
First they had me measure it from the floor to the top, and (Get ready for the shocker of a lifetime here) it was, in fact, 7 and a half feet tall.
As it turned out, the tree would be too tall to fit in the space it was going in. Also, I should point out that pre-lit Christmas trees come in 3 sections or so--not a bunch of color-coded branches that have to be put into the "trunk" one by one. With a pre-lit tree, you just put the bottom piece into the stand, the middle piece into the bottom piece, the top piece into the middle piece, plug everything in, and you're good to go.
The customers' solution to making the tree fit in its spot at their home? Cut off part of the top piece! Meaning they'd either have to CUT THROUGH THE WIRING FOR THE LIGHTS or somehow cut around it, and shove the extraneous lights back down into the trunk.
And even if they managed to do this without frying themselves or burning their house down, it would look like shit. They wouldn't be able to put a star or an angel or anything on top.
They bought the 7 and a half-foot tree. Coincidentally, we had a 6 and a half foot tree that might fit better, but they weren't interested in it. I'm pretty sure I will be reading about these dry-pool diving team members in the paper fairly soon.
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