Years ago there was this family that I knew. He was Catholic and she was Jewish. They had two small girls and decided for the first time to put a Christmas tree in their house.

To make it a fun family affair they drove to a tree farm to cut their own tree. After an hour of finding the perfect tree they cut the tree down and dragged it out front to make their purchase.

Much to their surprise the owner started screaming at them and demanded to know who gave them permission to cut it down. Come to find out the tree they picked was some special Russian tree which cost $1000. The wife kept saying she was Jewish and had no knowledge of Christmas trees. The husband kept saying he was sorry. In the end they paid about $100 for the cut tree (this was when trees were going for about ($30).

On the way home they were driving down the turnpike and all of a sudden their Russian tree went flying off the roof of their car. He was able to stop the car and was lucky enough to be able to retrieve it.

Needless to say that was the end of their Christmas trees.