Buying a Christmas tree should not be easy

in #life8 years ago (edited)

 
Finally it became the day my daughter has long awaited, the day the family Christmas tree was to be purchased.
I had been sick almost 14 days,so it became d. 13.12 before I could take her out and buy a Christmas tree but who would think it would be so difficult and apparently almost too late.
I planned that we should go to the local Scouts and buy the famous Christmas tree for the experience of visiting an outdoor Christmas tree sales point instead of the sterile and slightly boring drive with underground parking, to the local shopping center where the Christmas tree purchase is no different from the everyday grocery shopping with the long and tedious queues at the checkout and the sterile light from fluorescent tubes.

So my wife and I found the warmest clothes (it's fucking cold in Denmark) and went and fetched our lovely daughter in kindergarten, we explained that we were to go out and buy the Christmas tree and go home to decorate it, as it was early in the day (12:30) so we could do it all in one day.And so we trudged off to the Christmas tree sale, the sun was shining and my wife and I agreed it was the perfect day and time for our little excursion.When we reached the christmas tree sale the joy and happiness  had on end (13:00) until my wife says- "Looks fucking closed "- "Njaaa - you say something"And there was fucking closed and opened at 16:00, and like I said it's fucking cold in Denmark so it was not right there and we would wait, so my wife says"Let's just go home again"Both the wife and the kid froze  to the bone but my daughter 3 years old was very determined that we should have a Christmas tree now now now now now -she had been waiting a long time.Then I said.

  • Honey, we need to go home and pick up the car and drive to the center and pick up a tree " (Which you probably have understood just was not what I wanted)
  • oohhh Yes yes yes yes yes dad

She did not care at all where the tree came from.Well we walked back home and fetched the car and drove to the shopping center where Denmark's largest store is, of course we would be able to buy a Christmas tree there.(13:45) We came in and there were great advertisements for Christmas trees in three different varieties all different sizes, fair trade, not fair trade, with stand, without stand, false trees with light, without light, there just lacked an advertisement for a tree there was able to find its way homes, align size, decorate it self, and with its own power supply and dancing elves.So full of expectations the little family found the Christmas tree department and saw AN EMPTY space everything was torn gone, well almost  there was some little crooked, not sure which part of the plant family dying of AIDS trees, no one would have and and and not to forget, trees there were so big they could not fit in my garden unless i made a deal with the airport.And one of these giants, my daughter of course  fell in love whit, and during a discussion with a 3 year old lady, that seems difficult to win, an easier retarded Christmas tree salesman tells me that it was sad that I did not came the a day before - We had half the price on all trees the day yesterday.(14:15) I pulled the dad card, and we left the store without the giant.In the car in the death of a parking garage my wife says

  • there are two hardware stores on the other side of the highway can´t we try that.
  • arrrhhh, Yes let do that love.(dad anger, dad anger )

Ok we went to the other side of the highway to the hardware store and there in front was a large enclosure CHRISTMAS TREES area that mostly just looked like a piece of fenced in parking lot that tested the asphalts resistance to the environment.

  • Hello here to buy a Christmas tree, 
  • Yes
  • then you should have been here yesterday there was half the price on all trees
  • aarrrrr.

(14:30) The second DIY store is located just on the other side of the road so we went there only to see the sign - Christmas trees in the best quality at the best price - and the sad remains of pines no one apparently would own, even if they got pay to bring them home. Now we were all hungry, tired and cold to the point where we were ready to have feliz navidad in spain with a rubber tree decorated with parrots.

  • little darling now we have go home and have some lunch “the great cold table” (special Danish lunch) and go to the scouts when we have eaten then it will be open.

(15:00) We got home, prepared lunch, and my very understanding daughter played, then we eat, cleaned up and we are ready again.(16:00) At this time the sun has set in Denmark and it becomes really ffucking cold, so again we got the warm clothes, but this time we took the car to the scout Christmas tree sale, now it was open, and though it was dark and cold, it was an amazing sight that greeted us. christmas lights, playing children and a sea of

beautiful christmas trees all varieties and sizes and a sweet lady who politely asks if there is a particular variety and size we would like and my daughter says

  • as big as my dad

The sweet lady found some trees that were perfect, fair trade and as big as dad, as a magnificent specimen was chosen for my daughter's joy even bigger than dad, so now it was just to get it in the car and home and decorate it .


Happy endings.

 (18:00) indoor garden room is now Christmas suite 

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What a great story - thank you!

I decorated my 4-yr-old Kaffir Lime for Christmas...doesn't smell nearly as nice as a real tree like yours, but I can cook with mine :-)

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