The holiday season is about to begin. So it's time for people to max
out their credit cards and drain their bank accounts on pointless
material items to show how much they care lol. Sheesh, our society is
crumbling. People act like morons, can't drive, and whine like spoiled
little brats when a store is out of an item, fight if people grab the
last thing on a shelf. That about sums up my feelings about the
holidays lol. Call me pessimistic if you must, but I'm not the only one
that feels this way. I bet if you took a poll right now, more than half
of the people in this country will say that the holidays just doesn't
have any meaning these days. When people are stuck working Thanksgiving
or on Christmas, then it's all about the Benjamins (with the exception
of hospitals. Those places have to stay open no matter what). Family
and friends just doesn't matter any longer. The message is supposed to
be peace on earth and good will toward men, right? Doesn't seem like
it. Materialism at its finest.
I remember back in the day that
if you forgot any kind of food item for Thanksgiving dinner and needed
it on that day, well, tough shit. The majority of grocery stores in
town were were already closed. If anything remotely close to a grocery
store was open, it was a gas station/convenience store. Now most
grocery stores are open until at least 5 p.m. or later,and last year, I
worked at a Meijer until 10 p.m. and ended up at my brother's at around
midnight. How retarded is that? I couldn't even see everyone cause most
of the family had already left. Well, at least Best Buy has the decency
to be closed on that day and on Christmas so that employees can be with
their friends and families. Meijer, Wal-Mart, Kroger, and others stay
open until at least 8 pm or later. It just makes me sick. I find it
very hypocritical for a store to say they are family-oriented, yet make
their employees work on a holiday that is supposed to be about family
gatherings, you know? Meijer and Wal-Mart preach this crap endlessly
around the year. It's crazy. They don't give a shit about family, only
how much money they can make. Plain and simple.
But at any rate,
I just wanted/needed to rant briefly about this time of year. I really
and truly just don't enjoy it like I used to. So let me just say that
the shroud of the Dark Side has fallen. Begun the holiday wars have.
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