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You reuse last year's Christmas cards and send them out
under your own name (5 points). - You steal light bulbs from you neighbor's outdoor display
to replenish your own supply (5 points, 10 if neighbor's whole
light sets or lighted Santa goes out). - You have dressed a dog or cat as Santa Claus, elf helper,
or reindeer.
(10 points for each; if you dressed an endangered
species, 5 extra points). - You put out last year's stale candy canes for children (1 point
for each piece of sticky candy).
If you put out a chocolate or
marzipan Santa also, add 10 points. - You enclose a shoddy and inferior gift from Target, Walmart,
or K-Mart in a Bloomingdale's or other prestige box to impress
your friends (5 points for each infraction). - You make collect long distance phone calls to your family on
Christmas day (5 points, 10 if from a cell phone), claiming you are
stuck in a phone booth. - At the office Christmas party, you horde huge stockpiles of
goodies for later consumption at home (5 points; 15 points if
you use this stuff for your own party). - You steal the wreath from a parked car to use on your own
(Southern California & Florida only, others ignore: 5 points). - After an invitation to a friend's house, you bring a commercially
produced fruitcake and try to pass it off as home made.
(5 points;
15 points if the fruitcake is from last year). - Any stealing from the Toys-for-Tots collection bins is a definite
no-no (20 points).
Evaluate your score on the "Grinch Scale" from 20 to 100.
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20-30: You are just a cheeseball.
- 30-50: You are an apprentice in Yuletide larceny and are probably
wanted by the police for overdue parking tickets. - 50-100: Grinch, move over. The Meyer Lansky of Christmas crime
has arrived.