Its the freaking holidays

I don't know if anyone knows this, but its the holiday season. Yes, it is. It started on Thursday. Well, Friday for most people. Thursday, if you want to be technical. Or, for some whackjobs, November 1. Yes, some people think the holidays start the day after Halloween. Newsflash: they dont!

What is the holiday season? Is it a time to give thanks for all we have in the world? Is it a time to reflect on how lucky we are? Is it a time to pull our loved ones close, squeeze them and tell them we love them? I would say yes..............

Unfortunately, the world is full of morons and idiots. Do you know what these people think the holidays are: a time for buying every freaking thing on sale as cheaply and rudely as possible. How do I know this? Because I watch these arses do this every year.

I went to Target tonight. What did I see? Exhibit A: a lady was looking at some toy or some such nonsense. She grabbed said toy and let her 3 or 4 year old daughter take every freaking gift bag off of the shelf and put it on the floor. All of them. I couldn't get through the aisle. So she looks at her daughter as I stand there, says "no" and then moves the gift bags to the side. That's right. She doesn't put them away!

Exhibit B: some lady wanted some garbage "present." It wasn't there. Yes, surprisingly, stores run out of crap, especially cheap crap. What does she do? She yells about it. At some poor guy making $10 per hour who can barely figure out why he is being yelled at.

Exhibit C: drive through any parking lot and watch these people fight over parking spaces so they can be the closest one to the store. Why? So they can carry out bags and bags of "gifts" and not have to walk too far. Hey, a little walk may do you some good.

I am sick and tired of this stuff. Look, I don't know what holiday you celebrate but it is probably Hanukkah or Christmas or Kwanzaa. Lets just say that is a good guess. Hanukkah is the festival of lights. Its not the festival of gifts. Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Christ. (Maybe that is a simplistic explanation, but its not my holiday.) It is not the celebration of the birth of Black Friday or Cyber Monday or Suck it Wednesday. Kwanzaa is a celebration of African American culture. It is not the celebration of African American gift giving.

Look, I get that getting a present is cool. It can be fun. I like getting presents as much as the next guy. But you don't have to be a douche when you are buying a gift. You can be polite. Imagine if we all stopped for 2 minutes and were nice to the moron buying the 16 whatachmacallits because he thinks they will be the hot toy and he can resell them on Craigslist or eBay and make money. Imagine if we didn't have to push people out of our way to get to some gift or we didn't have to fight over parking spaces.

Imagine, if you will, that we celebrated the spirit of the holidays, instead of the gift giving of the holidays..............