Reset Password
Reset Link Sent
| Blogs > Rdyguy4u > Musings from the other side |
"For The Love Of God, Will You Please Wait Your Turn?!"
|
"For The Love Of God, Will You Please Wait Your Turn?!" Sorry folks, I put the wrong picture with last night's Post, That's the reason I don't talk Politics as I get all riled up and can't think straight, not that I do in the first place! I fixed it so if you read this, take a look at that as I found it hilarious and pertinent to this Site! Well now, It being October means that it's Christmas time? When did we start skipping holiday's and moving straight into Christmas? Granted, Halloween is technically not a "Holiday", but don't tell that to the ! Although, the past couple of years I've been getting less and less Trick or Treating. Probably due to the fact they've outgrown it or the Parents just don't want to go through all the trouble! Thanksgiving anymore has become less of a face stuffing holiday and more of a day for watching Sport's and strateging for Black Friday. Which to me, is such a shame as there is nothing like a huge spread of food with good friends and family, providing they all get along, and eating until you feel the need to change into sweatpants before the pie is served. That is of course unless you already came in sweatpants in which case you came prepared and obviously are a veteran of many Thanksgiving Day Feasts! This though is not about that, but I will touch on that holiday a little later on as it gets nearer. I realize that companies will do anything to improve profits and the bottom line, but I've always felt as though that preying on our impulses and trying to scare us into buying early as not to miss out on the big new thing is wrong in principle. Good for business but bad for P.R. in my book and I refuse to buy any Christmas items from any company that advertises or displays before Halloween is over, Which anymore is all of them! That of course forces me to buy Christmas gifts throughout the year which make me a hypocrite! It's not my fault, I just refuse to give in to them and allow them to push me into a Christmas state of mind, when I would much rather be in a "Fun Size" state of bliss! And then start shopping for some designer sweatpants to wear to dinner on Thanksgiving! (Shouldn't have said anything negative about those Jean sweats, as they're starting to look pretty good!) Just kidding! After Thanksgiving Day, then and only then do I want to hear about what's new for Christmas, but alas it is not to be anymore, instead, somewhere around July we are subliminally forced into a semi-state of Christmas cheer? Wow, it works! And then the day after Thanksgiving comes the day that they plan and strategies for all year; Black Friday! Not so much anymore really, as the stores took all the fun out of watching people make complete fools out of themselves over a television or Barbie Doll! Ahhh those were the day's! I used to get up and go, just to watch the carnage and aftermath and if you know me, sell souvenir picture with captions like: "I got trampled, punched and kicked , but by god I got what I came for and it was worth it!", or an oldie but goody, "Touch that Lady and I'll come to your house and burn it to the ground, Merry Christmas!" And the place to be was always Walmart! There is nothing like seeing a retired 65 yr. old dressed in riot gear being coaxed to open the front door by the store Manager who is standing off to the side out of harms way. As a matter of fact, I believe all the employees were up in the employee break room until the first mad rush was over and it was safe to go to work without fear of being trampled by an angry mob whose been waiting for the doors to open for hours on end! Now, if you really have to get it, you can wait in line and they come out and ask you what your after and then give you vouchers to purchase the items. How's a person suppose to release all that Christmas Spirit that has been pent up since July??? and besides that they've taken away my free entertainment and any need to get up early! Oh sure, you hear about the occasional mad rush, but there is something to be said about witnessing it first hand!!!! And anyone that has been through it and has the battle scars to prove it know what I'm talking about!! For the rest of you, It's boiled down to Cyber-Monday, and where's the fun in that??? I know, I'm a sad individual, but that's what happens when you've been alone too long!!! Someone wanna help???  |
Become a member to create a blog
