I live near the beach, so I often have to drive in the fog. I always have my lights on. A recent law passed in L.A. that cars must turn on their lights in the rain. Also, a good idea.
I always prefer colored lights. They seem more festive!
Talk about your loaded questions!
Typically it’s low beam headlights & taillights but last week was one of those pea soup exceptions. I was in fog so thick, at night, that I turned my headlights off & just drove with my parking lights on as that gave me better visibility. Granted it was a straight road near home that I am familiar with but the headlights absolutely obscured any visibility whatsoever. In The Toy that would have been just the fog driving lights but the DD doesn’t have fogs or driving lights.
The headlight poll reminded me of a conversation I overheard a year or two ago. I had taken my car to the dealership for service on a foggy, overcast day. A woman ahead of me was insisting to the service manager that there must be something wrong with her car’s automatic headlights because on the drive there every other car on the road had it’s lights on, but her car’s lights didn’t come on.
I kept my mouth shut, but of course I was thinking that most of those other drivers most likely turned their lights on manually, like I had that day.
Define “my neighborhood.” If you mean “closer than 5+ miles from home”, definitely no. If you mean “in any of the villages in this county”, then there are certainly some Santas at assorted parades and festivals, though I don’t know whether any of them are the fire department’s, and I’m pretty sure the kids come to them instead of their travelling around various neighborhoods.
Santa came by on a fire truck a couple of days ago. It’s been a tradition around here for many decades.
While most of that list are songs I would not proactively seek out to listen to, the only Christmas song that has reached “gouge my eardrums out” level is that ubiquitous Mariah Carey monstrosity.
Some of those sound horrible from the title, but i don’t know what they are. So i didn’t vote for them.
And what’s that monstrosity that is dogs barking out some Christmas tune?
It’s just The Barking Dogs singing Jingle Bells, although it’s sometimes referred to as “Jingle Barks”.
Does anyone else play Whamagetton? I was Whamed last Friday (the 13th - figures). I usually make it to Christmas.
Dang, I knew I’d forget something horrible.
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I’ll take the barking dogs any day over Mariah Carey.
I believe that everyone who has not voted for “Dominick the Donkey” has never heard it.
Prove me wrong.
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It’s true that I never heard it until a few minutes ago, but I didn’t go back and vote for it. I really don’t mind most ‘novelty’ Christmas songs(there are just a few that grate on me for unexplainable reasons), and they are ALL better than Mariah Carey.
I actively like “silver bells,” but it’s hard to believe that there isn’t more hatred for most of those. I did like “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” the first six times I heard it (well over it now).
The enduring classics are still welcome, but hard to find amongst all the other dreck.
The only Christmas-ish music I like is pretty much any version of Carol of the Bells, most of the music from Amahl and the Night Visitors, and The Monkees take on Riu Riu Chiu.
Oh, and I don’t hate The Nutcracker Suite or A Charlie Brown Christmas. Yet.
I have never heard it.
I was flying home from a business trip last Wednesday (Dec 11). When the plane arrived at the gate at ORD, they turned up the cabin lights, and started playing holiday music over the PA system. The first song they played was “Last Christmas,” thus knocking every single person on the plane out of Whamageddon. 
The only song I voted for is “Wonderful Christmastime.” The others I either don’t care enough about to hate or I don’t hear them enough for it to matter.
I actively loathe all Christmas music.
Where is everyone hearing this xmas music? Years ago I’d hear it in stores while I was xmas shopping. Nowadays I order gifts from Amazon, so I no longer have to go to stores or malls (remember malls?). I don’t listen to the radio, but maybe that’s where people hear the songs.