Last year, I even wrote Christmas cards to six of my neighbours. This year, however, I decided to write one card wishing all my neighbours a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and stick it up next to the letterboxes in our entrance hall.
The day after putting it up, I came down to find it stuffed halfway in and out of my own letterbox. I put it back to the place on the wall I had originally put it on.
The day after that, I found it stuck on the window of the door leading to the street. I put it back to where I had decided to place it.
After Christmas Day, I went down and found it was no longer there at all. Someone had got rid of it entirely. I had wanted to leave it up until the New Year.
Now, tell me, what was so offensive about my Christmas card? It had no pictures on it, just 'Merry Christmas' in various languages, seeing as how we have three Russian speakers and an Albanian-speaking family in our building.
(By the way, 'peripatetic' means 'umherwandernd'.)
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