I think the blogosphere has unanimously agreed that the Christmas decorations and music before Thanksgiving is insulting and annoying. Most of us can handle one DAY at a time...don't try to give us two HOLIDAYS at a time. Today I was inspired by Rockstar Mommy who not only affirmed my misery at being assaulted by Christmas the day after Halloween, but guilted me into figuring out how to adjust the settings on my iPhone so that it doesn't scream "Sent from my iPhone" (read, nyah nyah, I got an iPhone and you didn't!) and instead reads an innocuous "Di".
Last week when I had the bad judgment to go to the mall on Veteran's Day, I almost started a melee at American Eagle when some a**hole decided that instead of one line feeding to two cashiers, he would just jump behind the person at the cashier on the right and make it two lines. When I politely pointed out that the line was back here, he snidely said, "Merry Christmas". A minute or so later, I was called to the cashier on the left, expeditiously completed my transaction leaving no one behind me in line. So the cashier on the left called over to Mr. Merry Christmas and said, "May I help you over here?" I turned to her and said, "No...he told me he wants to be in THAT line!"
Later in the same week, I e-mailed my friends to say NO, NO, a thousand times NO, we should not go to our club's lame Christmas Party. One friend was waffling because the date happened to coincide with her son's 7th birthday. So, in order to really drive my point home, I expounded:
OK, so you know how much I HATE kids' birthday parties? All those kids running around screaming? And you know how much I hate the mall?
I would rather go to your son's birthday party at the mall during Christmas season than go to the club party. How about that?
My friend e-mailed back, "Merry F***-ing Christmas". What does it say about me that I got two sarcastic "Merry Christmas" greetings BEFORE THANKSGIVING!!!
Di
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