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Dec. 16th, 2009
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Dec. 16th, 2009 12:12 pmYou know, I'm somewhat lucky in that, thus far, no one's given me any shit about not saying "Merry Christmas" instead of "Happy Holidays". For that matter, I don't say "Happy Holidays" all that much either.
I suppose I can chalk up a large part of that to the fact that I work third shift, and therefore don't deal with as many customers, but it just seems sort of odd that Christmas is the only holiday we do this for.
Shouldn't people have a "happy holiday" for Easter, or Independence Day or President's Day as well? More to the point, we don't expect people to bring it up weeks beforehand for any other holiday.
Think about it... for any other holiday, there's no three to four week period before the actual holiday itself where there's as much concern over that holiday. You don't see people start acting all super patriotic at the beginning of June as a preparation for the 4th of July. Nobody starts saying "Have a happy Halloween" at the end of September. Sure, a lot of those holidays get the shit advertised out of them, but there's not the same desperate intensity to project beliefs on others.
But there are people who get their panties in a twist the day after Thanksgiving if you don't say "Merry Christmas" to them when they're paying for their purchases. They're boycotting stores because the employees there are saying "Happy Holidays".
But what would the Christmas season be without self-created stress?
I suppose I can chalk up a large part of that to the fact that I work third shift, and therefore don't deal with as many customers, but it just seems sort of odd that Christmas is the only holiday we do this for.
Shouldn't people have a "happy holiday" for Easter, or Independence Day or President's Day as well? More to the point, we don't expect people to bring it up weeks beforehand for any other holiday.
Think about it... for any other holiday, there's no three to four week period before the actual holiday itself where there's as much concern over that holiday. You don't see people start acting all super patriotic at the beginning of June as a preparation for the 4th of July. Nobody starts saying "Have a happy Halloween" at the end of September. Sure, a lot of those holidays get the shit advertised out of them, but there's not the same desperate intensity to project beliefs on others.
But there are people who get their panties in a twist the day after Thanksgiving if you don't say "Merry Christmas" to them when they're paying for their purchases. They're boycotting stores because the employees there are saying "Happy Holidays".
But what would the Christmas season be without self-created stress?