Fuck, I hate Christmas.

[Phillycat]

There are lots of things I hate about it. Here are just a few:

1. The hypocrisy. 364 days a year we treat everyone else on earth like pieces of shit, but that one day a year we're supposed to love everyone and embrace the Christmas spirit. Fuck that - either keep on being an asshole, or stop being an asshole the rest of the year. Don't be a hypocrite.

2. Everyone behaves like a total douche in the few weeks before because they're stressed out about spending money they don't have on presents nobody needs, and spending time with their families who they mostly hate. So you get tailgated all the time, people run their shopping carts into you and don't even apologize, everyone at work is an asshole.

3. Enforced gaiety is lame.

4. Having to think of presents to buy for people who already have everything they could ever possibly need or want. And then with the people who aren't that close to you, the whole "are they going to buy me a present or aren't they" dance of annoyance. "Shit, they bought me something last year and I didn't think we were close enough to exchange gifts, so I didn't get them anything, but this year I WILL get them something and of course they won't get me anything because I didn't get them anything last year OH DEAR GOD PLEASE PUT A BULLET IN MY BRAIN".

5. That "Christmas Shoes" song.

Add your own! Unless you're one of those people who LOVES Christmas and everything about Christmas and waits all year to get out your fake poinsettas and your animatronic Santas and your wrapping paper, in which case, I THINK YOU'RE IN THE WRONG THREAD SO BUH-BYE.

[truedelphi]

1. That day also happens to be my

B-day. Which means that most people forget.

One year a group of friends sold me on the idea of joining a "Birthday Club" because that would insure my getting presents (Hey, I'd be happy with just a card.)

I bought the presents for everyone else for their Feb, May, Aug and Sept birthdays. B-day for me came, and just like the year before, I got the card from the dentist and one from the insurance agency.

In January they called to say, "Shouldn't we all do this all over again." And didn't understand why I hung up!!

On the plus side, whenever I worked in Corporate America, I always got my B-day off.

[flvegan]

2. A-friggin-men!

Has it always been this way (numbers 1 and 2)? I loved Christmas as a kid, of course, but it only seems to me in the last 10 or so years that people have turned into absolute assholes the last half of December.

Maybe I'm just getting old and into my "get off my lawn" phase.

[TK421]

5. I used to love this time of year, too ,and you are correct when you

talk about the last ten or so years.

I don't remember it being a third of the headache it is today, and it will only get worse

[johnnie]

7. It's always been like this

Dickens wrote "A Christmas Carol" in 1843, he HAD to have some inspiration for Scrooge..no?

The Grinch is also a few years old. There was a "War on Christmas" even back then I reckon.

I was watching that Charlie Brown Thanksgiving show and Sally was bitching that Christmas has become too commercial and the stores already had decorations out, I checked the date and it was made in 1973 or 74.

From personal experience, I remember people being assholes at Christmas when I first started doing my own Christmas shopping and that was well over 10 years ago.

Naw, you're just getting older.

[Lorien]

25. He also lives in Florida, where people are generally more assholish

at least in my experience.

[GOPisEvil]

3. If it weren't for the days off...

:hi:

[Deep13]

4. agreed

And I'd like to put on my Christmas shoes and plant them in the ass of whoever wrote that horrid, morose song.

[Bertha Venation]

6. I don't hate Christmas, but i'm with you on # 2

I do not buy gifts. If you give me one, I feel my thanks are sufficient. I don't play that bullshit gift game.

People running around asking "are you ready for xmas?" meaning "is your shopping done, are your presents wrapped, is your house done up, has your meal been bought?" All I say is "yep, ready," when all I want to say is "Not ready by your definition, but by mine I am." I don't have the money, the time, or the mental strength to join the mall crowd. It is sheer madness. :banghead:

[Grey]

19. When they ask "are you ready for xmas" I simply reply...

Buddhists don't do christmas. gets them every time.

[Bertha Venation]

21. heh heh

:thumbsup:

[redqueen]

8. "We" treat everyone else like pieces of shit?

"Everyone" behaves like a total douche?

Perspective.


Also, there is no enforced gaiety.

Someone doesn't need a gift? Donation in their name.


*sigh*

[Phillycat]

16. Aw, poor you. *sniff*

Apparently others agree with me. DO YOU THINK YOU'LL EVER SURVIVE? :eyes:

[NJmaverick]

9. This is just a guess, but I am thinking you are not much of a people person

:hi:

[rockymountaindem]

10. I love being a Jew n/t

[PassingFair]

11. I love X-Mas.

I love the time off.
I love the presents (giving and getting).
I love splurging on my kids (if I can).
I love the big dinner we have for 20
unthankful relatives, whose other quirks
we put up with all year, but who ARE tolerable
thru the fog of roast beef and red wine.
I love the children shrieking and
I love the ridiculous behavior of some attention-whore relatives who NEVER
LET US DOWN, especially at X-Mas, so we
have something to laugh about well into
the New Year.

I love....




Oh crap, I'm in the wrong thread!

:hi:

[buzzycrumbhunger]

12. Is it Christmas?

I jettisoned the holidays with the marriage a few years back. Much better now! :hi:

[Guava Jelly]

13. I agree completely with everything you said.

This I agree with the most
1. The hypocrisy. 364 days a year we treat everyone else on earth like pieces of shit, but that one day a year we're supposed to love everyone and embrace the Christmas spirit. Fuck that - either keep on being an asshole, or stop being an asshole the rest of the year. Don't be a hypocrite.

[Callalily]

14. Sorry to hear that you are

feeling a little down during the holiday season.

But please let me clarify, b/c not all fall under your categories.

1. I always treat people with the respect that they deserve - 24/7 - 365.

2. Shopping? LOL! There are only a select few that I give presents to. They are near and dear to my heart, and I know exactly what kind of gift will make them happy.

3. Well, sorry to say, but I'm just a happy person, holiday season or not.

4. Please see #2

5. I'm not familiar with the "Christmas Shoe" song, so I can not comment.

All said and done, wishing you the best. I'm thinking you need an angel.

[Pierre.Suave]

15. You are such a nice person...

:eyes:

[dembotoz]

17. can not wait for it to be over

Only 2 christmases that i think i ever really enjoyed were the 2 christmases i spend in a foreign country.

I spent a number of years in print advertising. If you want to kill xmas for someone have them work
retail or an industry associated with retail.
sucky
sucky
sucky

[billyoc]

18. I used to be just like you.

Wait, I still am just like you. :hi:

[AlCzervik]

20. i used to feel that way when i lived near my family, since we've moved all holidays have become

enjoyable, it's only 3 of us so it's a small but nice, a day of eating stuff that i would not the rest of the year and hanging out and watching movies and playing games. Anyhow i buy my husband and daughter things they either need or really want and that's not much really, i think the candy in their stockings are the favorite part of christmas morning.

[Lorien]

22. I like it in theory but hate it in practice

I LOVE giving gifts, baking for friends and sending cards. I buy my Christmas gifts throughout the year, so I'm never madly dashing around for stuff this time of year. Shipping everything is expensive and a hassle (especially bad this year since I'm unemployed. I'll have to wait to send some things). I don't do expensive gifts anymore, but I try to do THOUGHTFUL gifts. I just got an email from the woman who is building my website. I was at her home and noticed that she collected books from the 1930s. She also mentioned to me while working on my website that she thought I ought to illustrate some of the Greek Myths. She said that she had ALWAYS been obsessed with them. So while at a library book sale this summer I found a beautifully illustrated 1935 volume on Greek mythology for $4.00. I wrapped it, along with a card and dropped it by her house two days ago. She emailed me later that evening " I have some of the book house books in another series and I love them and love the illustrations! I have never seen this one, but it is so spot on to what I like, it is unbelievably nice of you to think of me like that! Seriously, I doubt that I will get another present that I would like more than this". You don't have to spend a lot to make someone really happy! But I am always really depressed over the holidays. I know that I try my best to make OTHERS happy so that I can remain distracted from the fact that the holidays are always depressing as hell for a single person who really wishes that they had a family. I rarely get cards or gifts in return; that's just one of the additional "bonuses" of being unlucky in love; people have little respect for those of us who failed to become a part of any family unit or reproduce, so they blow us off during the holidays. On the rare occasions that I DO get a gift or thoughtful card I always write a heartfelt thank you letter in return, but I don't often get anything like the above email myself. So yeah, sometimes it all does feel like one giant sham, but I keep trying to make it fun and meaningful for everyone else, despite the fact that it always makes me feel like jumping in a frozen lake somewhere.

:-(

[Crabby Appleton]

23. Merry Christmas Lorien

:hug:

[Lorien]

24. Thank you. To you too Crabby Appleton

:hug:

[miss_american_pie]

26. I work retail

Can we add 6. people who wait until December 24 to shop and then yell at store employees for not having any boxes left?

[keroro gunsou]

27. fuck christmas

after 8 years of working in a mall food court and witnessing the sheer depths of assholish customer behavior, complete with a fist fight over who's order came up first, i can honestly say, fuck christmas.