I love Christmas…. HATE SHOPPING.
To me it ruins everything good about Christmas. I am totally down with gift giving, I just can’t stand going to the mall during Christmas.
It all starts in the parking lot. It resembles a giant game of bumper cars. People will try to kill over that spot that is 15ft closer to the door.
Then when you get in the mall, manners go out the fricking window. Pushing and shoving each other without so much as a simple “excuse me”
It drives me bat shit crazy. An I refuse to sink to that level. I have always been (and will always be) a polite individual. I hold doors open for people, I let others who have less items go in front of me in line, and I always ALWAYS say “excuse me/pardon me” if I accidentally bump into someone.
I think it is the Christmas music… I swear they must put subliminal messages in them telling everyone to spent money and kill anyone that stands in your way of getting that Old Navy fleece pullover!
My way of countering this offensive behavior is to be over the top polite to EVERYONE. Nothing drives a person in a bad mood crazier that someone in an up beat cheery mood. Try it sometime… walk around smiling and greeting everyone you see with a giant “MERRY CHRISTMAS” and just act like your in the greatest mood and you’ll see everyone around you that is in a bad mood giving you the cut eye. Or even better what I have been doing at work to get people going is when you first walk into a room, sing a Christmas carol. And then stop and wait… within 10 minutes someone else in the room will all of a sudden start singing… good moods are contagious. I am just doing my part to make the grinch disappear this time of year!!
So if you’re going to the mall or out shopping in general…. Take that giant stick out of your ass and think about candy canes and snowflakes… or else I’m coming to find you and I’ll be singing Christmas carols in your ear 24/7!!!!
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