Ladies and gentlemen:  I have a confession to make.  I know you may judge me harshly and opinions about me may change, but at this time, I don't care.  I have to come out and say it:

I am really freaked out by wicker deer, wrapped in lights, that move at the neck.  I don't care if the movement is from side-to-side or constantly bobbing its evil head up and down like it's grazing on your lawn... I just get a bit freaky.

Okay, the ones where the head goes up and down disturb me marginally more than the ones that just seem to be sizing up the joint for their wicked wicker ways, but they both suck.

I have noticed that the situation is not helped much by the deer being made out of metal, which seems to also be popular.  These things are evil and WRONG people!

I've tried to get to the root of the problem... to see if maybe a wicker deer molested me as a child, nudging its head against me and then away, against me then away until I cried myself to sleep at night, but I don't think that happened, because I dont' remember seeing these things before about 2000 or so. 

Anyway, since I find these things so creepy and odious, they are of course everywhere, so a time of great joy and wonderment is ruined by wicked, evil, scary decorations.

Deck the halls, indeed.

I'm with you on the deer. It's nice to know someone else is as creeped out by them as I am! Can't people go with snowmen or Santa instead?

Is it just me, or does anyone else want to get a wicker-light bucket, with wicker-light food, and put it under that bobbing wicker-light deer head? Because, honestly, watching it bob up and down and get nothing is just depressing.

I just don't like the things. Tacky, tacky, tacky. Ew.

Finally, I thought I was alone. Those things creep me out. The first time I saw one I didn't know that it moved and it totally freaked me out. I'll admit I did have a couple of drinks, but those things are still creepy.