'Tis the Season...

Well today I went to help a group of people put up a tree. I was thoroughly enjoying my self. The Christmas music was playing... I was humming and singing along... this tree was easily 10' high so we dragged out the ladder and 'you know who' got to climb it... So up goes the electric angel, and out come the 15 strands of lights to decorate this monster tree with. I know what you're thinking.... yes, I TESTED the lights, one string at a time before adorning the tree with them. That was SO smart of me to think of, it'd be one of the things that people who know me would expect I'd forget to do! HA! I fooled them. I was on top of my game today. And, there have been times that I would start putting the lights on from the bottom up, so that we could plug them in and have them lit while placing them, but I wasn't going to let that fool me again. I got stung once with that... got to the top of the tree and there weren't enough lights left!.. Noooo I wasn't going to fall for THAT one again. I started the lights at the top... working my way down so the last string could plug directly into the wall outlet. Oh, did I mention the angel was a light-up angel? Yup, so we propped her up on her perch at the top of the tree, pretty lil thing.. plugged her plug into the first string of lights and away we went... on down the tree. Well... 2/3 the way down we saw how many strings of lights were left and decided maybe we should add some more to the top... so I fished out the connector where the angel was plugged into the first set of lights... it was a 2 way plug so we could connect another set there, and run them down the tree too! Yay! ...and on down we went. ...until we got to the same level 2/3 the way down the tree. I figured I'd just connect that end, with the other string... hmm m m m. . . what do I have here..? ... 2 'female' ends? Now even I know you can't connect those together... but what's worse... neither one of those are going to plug into the wall. . . . . [foiled again]