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Holiday Lights

Hon. A. Michael Snyder

Respected Neutral, Mediator, Arbitrator, Discovery Master

发布日期: 2022年12月21日

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For someone who doesn’t decorate with lights for the holidays, I have to confess how much joy I get from looking at all of the beautiful lights twinkling, flashing, changing colors and generally providing magic everywhere. Big cities, as well as small towns, seem to take on an enchanting fairy-tale quality.

So wondrous is the transformation that I almost expect to see Jimmy Stewart and Myrna Loy in a horse-drawn sleigh moving gracefully through the streets that have snow gracefully coating everything. It doesn’t take a lot for me to hear a full orchestra playing holiday music in the background.

Over the years, fashions in lighting color schemes seem to go from multi-colored to all white and back to multi-colored again. Some choose a much more disciplined color scheme, perhaps blue and white, or red and green only.

In any case, there is one color that I see very little of as I drive down the street: orange! The absence of this warm, bright color has me more than a bit unsettled, I have to admit.

I can almost hear the question being asked, “What’s wrong with Snyder that he’s troubled by the lack of orange in the holiday lights? These are just lights, no big deal!” “Unsettled? What is he talking about?”

No, I don’t have a thing about needing orange lights to be part of the holiday lighting.

I do, however, find that I like seeing orange lights when out on the streets. I feel safer when I see them.

If my ramblings are making you think that I’m really losing it, I need to reassure you. The orange lights that I don’t see much of anymore are not on buildings, or trees, or other fixed structures. Nope, they’re the orange lights that are on cars, trucks, and buses.

I’m talking folks, about turn signals!! Those things that we all learned, as teenagers, were a required part of driving. I grew up being taught that to drive safely you had to put on a turn signal before you turned your steering wheel. The purpose of these devices was to let other drivers and pedestrians know your intentions, before your vehicle actually makes the turn.

It seems, in recent years, that a large number of drivers seem to view turn signals as a decorative element, something akin to a pinstripe on the side of the car.

As a result, one is never quite sure whether the vehicle in front of you, next to you, facing you, or at a right angle to you is going to go straight, turn, or change lanes. Driving has become an awful lot more like a larger-scale game of Whack-a-Mole. What is that other guy actually going to do with the 5,000 pounds of steel surrounding them and traveling at 50 miles an hour?

I don’t mean to sound cranky and crotchety, but I kind of feel that if there is that little stick jutting out from the steering column, the stick that can be flipped up or down, perhaps it should actually be used for a purpose other than something on which you hang your gloves.

Enjoy the lights. They really are beautiful. Especially the orange ones!

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Mike Snyder

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Happy Holidays Judge!

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I couldn't agree more!!!! Best wishes over the holidays!!

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Vice President at The Safegard Group, Inc.

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Whack a mole! True & funny!

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Holiday Lights

Hon. A. Michael Snyder

Respected Neutral, Mediator, Arbitrator, Discovery Master

So wondrous is the transformation that I almost expect to see Jimmy Stewart and Myrna Loy in a horse-drawn sleigh moving gracefully through the streets that have snow gracefully coating everything. It doesn’t take a lot for me to hear a full orchestra playing holiday music in the background.

Over the years, fashions in lighting color schemes seem to go from multi-colored to all white and back to multi-colored again. Some choose a much more disciplined color scheme, perhaps blue and white, or red and green only.

In any case, there is one color that I see very little of as I drive down the street: orange! The absence of this warm, bright color has me more than a bit unsettled, I have to admit.

I can almost hear the question being asked, “What’s wrong with Snyder that he’s troubled by the lack of orange in the holiday lights? These are just lights, no big deal!” “Unsettled? What is he talking about?”

No, I don’t have a thing about needing orange lights to be part of the holiday lighting.

I do, however, find that I like seeing orange lights when out on the streets. I feel safer when I see them.

If my ramblings are making you think that I’m really losing it, I need to reassure you. The orange lights that I don’t see much of anymore are not on buildings, or trees, or other fixed structures. Nope, they’re the orange lights that are on cars, trucks, and buses.

It seems, in recent years, that a large number of drivers seem to view turn signals as a decorative element, something akin to a pinstripe on the side of the car.

I don’t mean to sound cranky and crotchety, but I kind of feel that if there is that little stick jutting out from the steering column, the stick that can be flipped up or down, perhaps it should actually be used for a purpose other than something on which you hang your gloves.

Enjoy the lights. They really are beautiful. Especially the orange ones!

?

Mike Snyder

[email protected]

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Over the years, fashions in lighting color schemes seem to go from multi-colored to all white and back to multi-colored again. Some choose a much more disciplined color scheme, perhaps blue and white, or red and green only.

In any case, there is one color that I see very little of as I drive down the street: orange! The absence of this warm, bright color has me more than a bit unsettled, I have to admit.

I can almost hear the question being asked, “What’s wrong with Snyder that he’s troubled by the lack of orange in the holiday lights? These are just lights, no big deal!” “Unsettled? What is he talking about?”

No, I don’t have a thing about needing orange lights to be part of the holiday lighting.

I do, however, find that I like seeing orange lights when out on the streets. I feel safer when I see them.

If my ramblings are making you think that I’m really losing it, I need to reassure you. The orange lights that I don’t see much of anymore are not on buildings, or trees, or other fixed structures. Nope, they’re the orange lights that are on cars, trucks, and buses.

It seems, in recent years, that a large number of drivers seem to view turn signals as a decorative element, something akin to a pinstripe on the side of the car.

I don’t mean to sound cranky and crotchety, but I kind of feel that if there is that little stick jutting out from the steering column, the stick that can be flipped up or down, perhaps it should actually be used for a purpose other than something on which you hang your gloves.

Enjoy the lights. They really are beautiful. Especially the orange ones!

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