Sk8J

So why do y'all hate Christmas so much?  Put your stories of not recieving the Red Ryder BB Gun here.

I don't hate Christmas. I hate that it get slightly colder and the sun goes away sooner, and I really hate most Christmas music. I love Christmas, otherwise.

I've worked in retail. I think that pretty much says why.

Meh.  I worked at Williams Sonoma over Christmas.

Our family never had big meetings, since we were all fighting one against the other. Ours was my parents and my sisters plus SOs. I fucking hate my older sister and her bitch of a husband and moron of daughter, and since I tried to avoid them as much as possible, they had usually only that day to make sure I felt miserable, they throughly used their time.

So basically every festivity was a race to eat yummy food at the maximun speed and then fuck off to get drunk with the friends.

Now that my dad has finally put an end to my sister's fuckery, casting her off, festivities are much more bearable. But still I have to make a tiring trip back to my dad's, I still hate Christmas shopping, Christmas shoppers make me homicidal, Christmas customers at the job asking me to have Christmas spirit on top of the usual fucknuttery make me genocidal, and I loathe the consumerist craze.

To be fair, I like my little corner of Christmas, I just strain mightily to block the common spirit, which I loathe; so I end up acting all grumpy.

It's a holiday I used to love because of the family + gifts + food. As I got older, the gifts dropped off. My mom's side of the family's the one I've always lived closer to, but on my dad's we were always the satellite kids who didn't normally spend Christmas in Dallas. Therefore, we didn't normally get many presents, if any.

Combine a few of those awkward gatherings with the fact that I started working holidays from age 16 on (Jack-in-the-Box! Vietnam with Christmas music!), and it's become a holiday I don't really care about too much. I don't hate it, but Thanksgiving is traditionally a holiday where I enjoy myself a lot more. Most Christmas music annoys me simply because I have to hear it a whole lot.

I wouldn't call myself a Grinch. I'm just a turkey boy (TURKEY BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOY).

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Yep. It also explains why I hate Xmas music after having to listen it to it for 8 hours a day for a solid month. I don't hate all Xmas music, but honest to God- whose sick idea was it to make a Muzak version of "We Are the World"? And why do I have to hear it at least once a day?

Standing in line today I heard something that chilled me to my very bone. The radio actually said, "And now, from the number one Christmas artist of ALL TIME..."

Who was it?

Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Pfft.  I'm still waiting for his second album.

I forget -- a choral group that did In Excelsis Deo, but included R&B vocal stylings over the more classical presentation, for some terribly misguided reason. Not nearly as bad as the lead in led me to expect, though.

Reminds me of an incident between me and a Fundie who was trying to talk to me about Jesus as I was attempting to get to First Thursday:

"Have you heard of Our Lord Jesus Christ?"
"Yah! Saw 'em at Headhunters last week, they were opening for Faster Pussycat..."

Williams Sonoma? Wimp. Try Sears on Black Friday.

I have worked the lingerie department at Sears on Black Friday.  I had the 6am - 2pm shift.  I explained to a guy how to measure himself for a bra because he couldn't go into the women's dressing room and I wasn't going into the men's dressing room.

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My widfe worked there.  I've heard the horror stories.

You've not known true misery however, until a woman whose husband makes more money in a month than you will in five years tears into you at you because you gave her the wrong color turkey baster.

I don't particularly hate Xmas per se.  I pretty much despise Mid November thru Jan 7.  When you are single it can be a crushing time to be alone.  When you are not you suddenly find yourself making crazy decisions based on people you ignore the rest of the year.  The commercialism never bothered me and honestly the religious side of it  tends to bring out the better in some people.

On a personal note, My parents got married the day after Xmas, they further stoke my rage by actually celebrating Kwanzaa, Then comes New years and finally my birthday.  Historically by the time my Birthday shows up, no one is around, everyone is poor or they are all partied out so my birthday always feels like a burden I am putting on people.

Of course yesterday only add fuel to that fire.

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As a kid, and being the only Jewish kids in class, having to be the one to explain Hanukkah.

Having to remind Catholics and Christians that Christmas is a religious holiday and not an American holiday.

Getting Christmas off as a holiday, but having to use a personal day to take off Yom Kippur.

The fact that Jews write better Christmas songs than Hanukkah songs. (Alas Jews put out too many Xmas albums - You too, Mr. Dylan? I thought you were over that.)

Stringing the lights on a tree and trying to make it look nice without it looking strung on, then sweeping up the fallen pine needles (I have little experience here, but I did marry a Catholic).

I just REALLY dislike 99.99% of christmas songs and carols.

I'm a Turkey girl myself.  While there are nice bits about the Christmas holidays and my family now has settled into a firm routine that removes much of the hassle, and I actually like shopping for gifts, I find sitting around with the people I chose to eat killer food is much more fun.

I've had to clean blood off of electric shavers because two rich idiots got in a fist fight over a parking spot.

I actually quite like Christmas.  But since it should be clear now, I'll reiterate it here:  the one thing I don't like about it is having Christians shove Baby Jesus down everyone's throat.

STFU and give me more stuffing.

Not the holiday itself but the endless exploitation of it/obsession with it  that bugs me.  Really don't give a shit about Christmas per se, but the ubiquity of the same 25 songs playing *constantly and everywhere* and the inability of people all over to comprehend why I might not be inclined to celebrate the birth of their messiah (not mine, thanks) is just grating.

I get the incredulous "You're working on Christmas??!!" all the time.  My response is usually "You work on Yom Kippur, don't you?"

That said, I usually like original rock and roll songs about Christmas like the Kinks' Father Christmas and Chuck Berry's Run Run Rudolph.

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You win.

CHRISTMAS is a Christian holiday! It is incomprehensible to me how someone hates the Christian trappings of a Christian holiday.

Your argument from the other thread makes me think you hate America because the land was taken from Native Americans.

You don't hate America, do you Jason?  Do you?    Don't wait for the translations!  Answer me, now!*

*General Chang, not Adlai Stevenson.

<I get the incredulous "You're working on Christmas??!!" >>

I wonder if that's not so much the shock that you're not keeping the day holy (such as it is anymore), but because you're working on lke the one free day The Man gives almost everybody.

<-Your argument from the other thread makes me think you hate America because the land was taken from Native Americans.->

I have Cree ancestry, so SCREW YOU ALL.

I really need to start a McCarthy-like online persona.

Frosted vs. Flocked

It's really easy to hate Christmas in SoCal becuase it all feels so arbitrary.  All the decorations are a sad joke, offgassing and bleaching away on an unwatered lawn.

I lived in OC and the Bay Area for 30 years and had never been a super "yay Christmas" guy.  But after this first snowfall, with the tree's frosted and lights reflected off brilliant snow-covered lawns, Im starting to get the feeling.

--andrew

I'll see your Sears and raise you a Toys R Us.  For 6 years.  Including the Christmases of Tickle Me Elmo, Power Rangers and Tamagatchi.

Craig