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Nov. 30, 2004 Even now I can feel myself turning into a Scrooge. The other night, not long before Thanksgiving I was driving down the road(I do that a lot in my business)and saw the first of the Christmas lights. My thought at the time was these people need to get a life. My apologies to Bill Shatner. This was not just right before Thanksgiving, it was right after Halloween. Sheeeesh! Wal Mart(or Wally World as I like to call it)yeah, I understand them putting up Christmas displays in July. They end their planting season for gardening in January. I've always been of a mind they were in a time warp. I've often bought valentines at the time I've also bought Christmas clearance there. Buy valentines in February? Hahahahahahahaha! Now, I don't care what people put down on their tax forms...some people work for the electric company during the holidays and long after the first of the year. It doen't matter if they work doing something unrelated to electric power. They might be doctors, lawyers, or who knows what else they work for the electric company. Don't believe me go take a drive some night. My dad used to put up one string of lights around the front edge of the roof eaves. There was one old man in our town who had so many lights people would drive 70 miles from St.Louis to see them. Some drove further. He had a guest book out front for people to sign. There were news articles in the local papers. I lived and worked with another such guy. Lights everywhere. I drove a delivery out on the edge of town. There was a house I swear you could have seen from space. It was like the sun had never gone down there. You could have gotten a tan. I guess it's nice some folks like to celebrate like that. I personally don't put lights up. My tree is three feet tall with the star on top. The rest of the year it stays in a bag in the closet. I guess that makes me a Grinch, or a Scrooge. Maybe just lazy. I like to think my holiday is where it should be...in my heart. The electric company gets enough money from me. Anyway, I've been told I'm an old bear this time of year. Yeah, yeah, right. If not putting up lights makes me a Scrooge fine. My late wife used to tell me I should just hibernate this time of year. I think all the fake holiday hype is humbug. Where's these people's Christmas spirit at the day after Thanksgiving sales? Hmmmm? I just don't look foreword to seeing any seasonal supernormal visitors. If the seven year rule applies as per Jacob Marley one of them might be my wife. Simper Fi! ------------ About the author: Lee Zelhart is a proud graduate of McKendree College in Lebanon, Illinois and the father of two teens (one of which will be getting married in the next couple of years, maybe sometime in 2006) and the author of The Ghost of the Cavalier due out in 2005. Email: graphicsdoctor1@sbcglobal.net Tell a friend about this site! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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