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I just saw my first Christmas-themed ad on tv. Cue the Bahs! Rouse the Humbugs! Prep the Grinch!
I have nothing against people celebrating their holidays. More power to 'em, and they should enjoy every moment of it. I just would enjoy one year not having CHRISTMAS! shoved into my face, my ears, and my wallet, and then being told that it's MY problem that it annoys me.
I'll tell you what, all you Christmas Enthusiasts. Keep it within a two week -- hell, even a three week period -- and don't play christmas carols in the be-damned public bathrooms, and I'll give you the carols in every damn store, the sidewalk santas ringing their bells, the people wishing me merry christmas without provocation, the endless parade of ads about what I should buy people/ask for as gifts, the santas and reindeer and creches and pointsettas and etc etc etc.
But no. They can't even manage to restrain it to the month of the actual holiday. They have to start now, before Thanksgiving.
Bah.
I'll be in the corner, counting the days until the turn of the year.
1. the offending commercial was for Kohls. They're first up on the seasonal boycott list.
2. I truly believe that there should be a Constitutional amendment prohibiting the airing of "Frosty" before 1 December. And banning any airing, ever, of the abomination of a sequel.
I have nothing against people celebrating their holidays. More power to 'em, and they should enjoy every moment of it. I just would enjoy one year not having CHRISTMAS! shoved into my face, my ears, and my wallet, and then being told that it's MY problem that it annoys me.
I'll tell you what, all you Christmas Enthusiasts. Keep it within a two week -- hell, even a three week period -- and don't play christmas carols in the be-damned public bathrooms, and I'll give you the carols in every damn store, the sidewalk santas ringing their bells, the people wishing me merry christmas without provocation, the endless parade of ads about what I should buy people/ask for as gifts, the santas and reindeer and creches and pointsettas and etc etc etc.
But no. They can't even manage to restrain it to the month of the actual holiday. They have to start now, before Thanksgiving.
Bah.
I'll be in the corner, counting the days until the turn of the year.
1. the offending commercial was for Kohls. They're first up on the seasonal boycott list.
2. I truly believe that there should be a Constitutional amendment prohibiting the airing of "Frosty" before 1 December. And banning any airing, ever, of the abomination of a sequel.
