Hate to say it but just now I'm feeling just a bit like Ebeneezer Scrooge pre-Marley's ghost. It's not the true spirit of the holiday that makes me feel this way it is the big-box stores. Here it is, the Monday after Christmas, and I'm already dreading when the big-box stores, you know who you are so I will not point fingers, will decide that Christmas is started. With more than a bit of dread, I'm wondering if this year, they will really wait, until after January 1, to put out the Christmas Trees. I get a little sick of hearing "Chestnut's Roasting on an open fire" for the ten millionth time.
Take, for example, the currently dying year. At least one of the local big box store had its Christmas Trees out before the 4th of July. To them little inconsequential things like Thanksgiving and the 4th of July, and to a lesser extent even Halloween were simply not important. To them, it would be better if those were ignored by the ignorant masses. Masses who are desperate to give them their hard earned funds for whatever crumbs they, meaning the stores, decided to permit them to buy as Christmas gifts.
It seems that we, and I definitely include myself in the unwashed masses that the elitists who manage these chain stores mean when they deign to permit us their largess; are not considered quite intelligent enough to come in out of the rain, much less actually understand when a holiday, such as Christmas, should begin. Our task is simply to salivate over the rude crumbs they decide to permit us to spend money on while they simply laugh at us all the way to the bank.
What is worse still, they have somehow convinced the majority of the people that they, meaning the big stores, are Tiny Tim. We, the dirty rabble they permit to have their largesse, are actually Ebeneezer Scrooge. We have to be shown every year just how much, how long and how early we must give to small, helpless, corporate, Tiny Tim.
I would try to leave you with a word of cheer, but as it seems am become Ebeneezer, I leave you instead with the words of the great corporate Tiny Tim
God bless the dollars and dimes. God bless them, everyone!
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