17 November 2014

Ramping Up

I don't want to scare anyone, but we are in the month of November.  And you know what that means.  It means that Thanksgiving is this month.  Hunting season is upon us.  The fall is turning into winter.  Right?  RIGHT?  Of course not.  Especially if you walk into any retail store.  It means that it's Christmas time!  No.  NO!  It's November!  Goddamit, it's noooooovemmmmber.  *Deep depressing sigh*

My wife and I went to Target a couple of weeks ago and this was the first time I was in one in about a month.  And it looked like the Christmas season got into the adult egg nog a little too early in the evening and then ended up puking decorations all over the place.  And I know that all retail stores are like this.  We have all of our Christmas stuff out at work.  It's been out since the end of October.  So it's not just the big retail stores that do this.  Working in retail for close to ten years, I guess you get desensitized to seeing everything out a couple of months ahead of time.  And it's not just Christmas.  Other holidays such as Easter, Valentine's Day, and Halloween are included.  How many months ahead of summer do you start to see shorts and tank tops at clothing stores?  And how often do we hear 'you guys are putting out Christmas stuff already?  It's not even November and you have all your Christmas stuff on the floor and selling it?'  

I guess we just have to go with it.  And you don't have to shop the holiday section until the month of the holiday.  Normally it is all concentrated in one section of a store.  Don't like the fact that stores start to stock holiday stuff a few months ahead of time?  Just ignore it.  Your complaints fall on deaf ears because the person stocking the shelves making minimum wage doesn't give a shit that you hate the fact that his employer brings in holiday stuff two months early. 

60/120

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