One: All the damn people in the stores that take their sweet ass time while you end up waiting for their slow asses to move. Would it kill them to move so someone else can pass them? Two: The crazy ass drivers out there. It’s not even safe to cross the road cause most are crazy behind the wheel during this season. Slow down drivers and think about the ones who are walking. Three: The commercials are everywhere!!! I understand people like to spend money but how about no going so crazy with the commercials so you can make more money. With all this stuff the Holidays just remind me of the craziness that comes with them. I’m already crazy enough from everyday life. —The Season Will Drive You to Insanity
This article appears in Nov 17-23, 2011.
The season IS insanity! Wish I could fast-forward to January when things get back to normal.
YAAAYYYY
More xmas bitching !
I agree with all of the reasons to HATE the season.
its so damn commercialized, many people have lost touch with what is important…& it sure isn’t some store bought over priced p.o.s.
There are good things you can do instead of buying the latest piece of plastic !
I’ll be supporting the Food bank, there are a lot of people who will not be eating a decent christmas meal .
I give money to my mum, who works with her church group volunters to feed people on Christmas & New Years day.
Make present giving the least important part of the holidays, getting together with friends & family IMO are way more important
i think this is number four but it’s still early
I walked into Winners Mic Mac and almost had an anxiety attack! It was INSANE in there. People around the Christmas decorations, all through the aisles, EVERYWHERE!
Where do they all come from, good Lord.
Dem Capers come to the city ta shop at da maul…..it’s tradition.
i agree it’s stressful but you need to learn to deal with it bitchers. i will start baking soon and the boy and his squeeze are coming home for new years. take what you want from the insanity and leave the rest. i feel really bad for the folks that can’t listen to their own playlists at work, “fairytale of new york” comes to mind chickpeasis
mmmmm baked cookies & home made candies & treats…I LOVE Shortbread still hot from the oven !
My girlfriend makes candy, & everyone looks forward to what type of ‘brittle’ she will offer up this year .
I’m going to make those no cook chocolate covered peanutbutter crispy balls this year (ok, ok, you gotta melt the chocolate, & that’s sort of like cooking)
& Meat pies…god damn I love meat pie !
like tortiere type meat pies? i just bake cookies, nothing too fancy
Working retail around Christmas time was horrible enough without that horrible Christmas music! I worked at a drugstore that had their own radio for their stores and I already knew all of the “regular” music, the Christmas music was even worse! The most hated was one that went like, “I’m gonna e-mail Santa….” UGH and allllll the Nickelback the rest of the year.
Actually I did enjoy the music on senior’s day, they would play some Beatles. But that didn’t make up for having to deal with the seniors, that’s for sure.
Would it kill you to say “excuse me”? Not everyone is in a rush, just fucking say those two words! I find them to be quite effective.
As for the commercials, maybe you could stop watching so much god damn television.
the kinks do a nice christmas song
I like Doug and the Slugs version of White Christmas, paingirl are you refering to Father Christmas?
yes s and w. i saw doug and the slugs, great bar band
I noticed that the slowest shoppers are the speed demons in the parking lot.
No Paingirl, our family do a couple of different types, beef, pork & beef, pork & venison.
But what ever type, there is always a gravy, I like to have peas & onion in there as well with 80% of the pie being chunks of meat & more pie crust than veggies.
My mums family has a recipe that uses ground meat, where they will grind up whatever is available, so it can be beef, pork , chicken , or if its been a good hunting season , deer or moose (I love moose) always a thick dark gravy some veggies & not always a top pie crust, sometimes its topped with mashed potato.
Like I said , I love meat pies & really can’t say I have a favorite.
I know people plan to spend money this time of year so it makes good advertising sense to make all commercials reference Christmas in some way, or something, but damn is it annoying after a while when you notice that literally every commercial has tinsel slapped across it and jingle bells playing, even if they’re selling like engine lube or something. I agree OP, it’s too much!
OB, it hasn’t even begun. Those are the Black Friday events….Canadian version. Oopps….now North Preston’s Black Heritage Committee will protest that name.
There should be twelve days of Christmas, that’s it. It would start December 13th. There would be no Christmas music or decorations before that. Sure, you can put up winter decorations as long as there is no Jesus, Santa, elves or reindeer. Once December 13th rolls around, fill your boots.
BTW I love tortiere.
IMO, the worst part of Christmas, is people that bitch about Christmas.
I think that secretly everyone enjoys a bot of the season rush 🙂 The thrill of present finding, warm hot cocoa, those old school christmas specials, sparkly objects for every window shopper to see (Snow white at the mills brothers!) and FOOD!!:D ( I Heart Turkey and Stuffing!) 😀 Happy Holidays Everyone!
Depeche Mel, I’m still living in that drugstore hell… the music makes me want to murder. IT NEVER STOPS. LIKE THE RING.
You bitchers know how much I love Christmas and the holiday season. I cry at Canadian tire commercials and love wrapping Presents and watching the snow fall (lightly) and all the Parties and family get-togethers, the Xmas lights, the quietness of Xmas eve. I’ve already been to the parade, been shopping for weeks, hung my Xmas lights, and made a gingerbread house. Sorry OP.
Bread lady you need to keep me posted on those cookies 🙂
It sometimes stops for “customer service, 101 please, customer service, 101”
i will mamabear, you can bring the kids for a visit
:O Cookies?!?
Yeah O-Man, Cookies! Painey makes good’uns.
Were you marching with the Hal-Con contingent on Saturday night? Rawking the Jayne Cobb hat, perchance >; )
I agree with More and Painy on this one. As easy as it is to have happen, you don’t HAVE to get all wrapped up (pardon the pun) in the commercialism and other assorted crap that always seems to fly around this time of year. Take out of it what you want and leave the rest. Good mantra, Painy. The true beauty of the Christmas season is spending time with family and friends, the people you love, and just enjoying the cheer and good will that comes with it. (Kudos to you, More, for supporting the food bank. I think that’s fantastic. Oh, and let me know when the meat pies are done. I’ll be over for a piece! lol) And the best part is you can choose to celebrate it in your own special way. I’m pretty sentimental by nature so, I love watching the older Christmas specials cuz we (my family and I) used to watch them when I was growing up or listen to the classic Christmas songs…(It doesn’t matter what time of year or where I am or what I’m doing, the instant I hear “White Christmas” by Bing Crosby, I’m immediately in the Christmas spirt.)
The bottom line is, you can choose to allow the season and all the hub bub associated with it to swallow you up and make you angry, broke and bitter, or you can choose to focus on what REALLY matters. And while I’m not a religious guy, I DO have strong faith and , well, let’s be honest…Christmas is a religious holiday…celebrating the birth of Christ. It definitely helps to keep that in mind too. Regardless of what your religious beliefs are…I refuse to say “Happy Holidays” or “Time to set up the Holiday tree” or other such nonsense. The “Holidays” have a name, it’s Christmas. If that offends you, tough! Deal with it. I can’t stand all the PC bullshit that always seems to rear it’s ugly head at this time of year. This is Canada. It’s a predominantly Christian country. Therefore, we celebrate Christmas. If we were predominantly some other religion, then I would have no problem saying “Happy Whatever”, even if I was not of that religion. People are getting too hung up on this and are too damned afraid to offend someone. But what about the rest of us? I personally get a little offended when I say Merry Christmas and it gets all poo-poo’ed and frowned upon because it is not PC enough.
Anyway, that’s just my 2 cents worth.
Merry Christmas everybody.
soon agent 195 soon, i’m leery of giving them to the big d, he might eat them before you get any
“Big D” – ?
I wasn’t in this particular parade as I didn’t really have any warm costumes. I did hang out with some of the people afterwards for beer though. 😛
And “Big D” refers to a co-worker of mine who PG knows.
you’d like him ivan, he is very smart and nerdlike^^
Ahhh – Ich versteh.
I had a sniper’s eye view of the festivities, known in the shoppe as “The Annual Parade of Unquenchable Despair” And that wasn’t Beep in my sippy cup *Glug*
it was tang and vodka, right^^
“Do you come from a land down under?
Where the beer does flow and men chunder”
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hahaha…back in my restaurant days we had the ‘muzak’ system. You know it’s bad when it’s an eight hour tape and you know what song is coming up next!
Right on, Painey, you’ve got the idea. I have always been a ‘mix tape’ person—now I burn CDs—and I make a nice holiday CD-the platters, diana krall, ella.
The kinks? Is that the Father Christmas, give us your money one? very funny, PG!
This year I will attempt to make my own crystallized ginger. I found a recipe that uses a pressure cooker, so it isn’t a week long process.
I like giving people gifts on Christmas because it makes me feel awesome when I make someone happy with something I’ve given them.
I think the ‘thought’ someone puts into something is the best part of gift-giving.
BUT, I will say my favorite part of the season is spending time with family I rarely ever see. We have a big family party on Xmas eve and it’s *awesome.* It’s nice to be reminded you even HAVE a large extended family when you never see them during the year.
I know who’s NOT getting a gift this year though. Little Miss Molly. Not after Saturday’s facial attack.
I look like I’ve been in a female gang-fight.
Merry Fucking Christmas to you, Cat.
xmas engine lube?!?!
it’s what santa uses…
to masterbate between chimneys.
i like burl ives too, and the movie that goes with it “i want to be a dentist”