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Yesterday, as I was walking home from being a lunch guest on the other side of town, I heard a whirring coming from someone's front lawn. Now, this is a front lawn which at this time of year usually has a bunch of inflatable Santas, snowmen, etc.; but they were all lying deflated on the ground in the rainy, cold weather.

But I heard that whirring, like an air compressor - you know, you'd hear it if you were inflating a mattress or a beach ball or something.

And as I watched, the nylon canvas statues slowly expanded and stood up against their tethers. It was vaguely creepy and hysterically funny at the same time. I had a lot of lewd thoughts, seeing the crumpled and bent candy cane slowly inflate and straighten out. And the inflatable Christmas tree, even more so! It was stuck between two snowmen at first, but then it went boing! and stood completely erect... damn me for knowing what a ... oh, ********, I'm not even going there.