Preview: Deck the Doors, a wreath-buying event, raises money for DIFFA

by Staff of Gay List Daily

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Plus: free-flowing cocktails and delicious hors d’oeuvres.

DALLAS — Certain holiday traditions bring us great joy. Others, unimaginable terror.

Wreaths, for instance.

The mere sight of one can send chills down our spine and trigger uncontrollable crying jags. It all stems back to fifth grade when we sold nativity scene candle sets door-to-door at Christmastime to fund our Mom’s insatiable Quaalude and Sanka habits.

At our final house of the season, our fear of circular door decor was born. We had only one nativity scene left, but it was missing a shepherd, one camel was broken in half, and a manufacturing snafu found the wick on Baby Jesus in the wrong position, making for an awkward flame coming from his nether regions once lit.

Hoping to sell everything at a discount so we could get home in time for our Christmas Eve dinner of porridge and pickles, we hurried up the sidewalk to Old Man Merriwether’s. Little did we know that the former mafia informant was extremely paranoid of solicitors, whether bearing Avon, vacuum cleaners, or Virgin Marys made of wax.

No sooner had we knocked on the door than the insanely bright porch light snapped on while pepper spray spewed from the poinsettia affixed to his holiday wreath. Temporarily blinded, we fled the scene and stumbled home, dropping our money bag somewhere along the way.

Mother would be Quaaludeless again that Christmas. And our lives would never be the same.

So this Thursday, under the orders of the Gay List Daily staff psychiatrist, we are attending Deck the Doors DIFFA/Dallas Wreath Event. The presence of free-flowing cocktails and delicious hors d’oeuvres will force us to face our wreathaphobia with merriment.

Just fair warning: Even though the auction of designer wreaths is technically silent, we might still be found whimpering in the corner.

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