"Merry Christmas!" - oh God, Kill me now (623 hits)
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Submitted by <oleannder.at.hotmail.com> (View user info) at 2005-11-14 18:16:48 EST
I love Halloween. I really do. I love the costumes, the candy, pumpkins, ghost, goblins, haunted houses... all of that crazy goodness just jazzes me up & makes me smile.
This Halloween I went to work with my boyfriend as he works for a theatre that was putting on a showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show that would include a live cast performing at the same time as the showing of the film. To make the experiance a little more fun for the movie goers we decided to go out & buy a CD full of fun Halloween songs & sounds that would be playing in the theatre pre-show. What a gigantic pain in the ass that was.
First stop - a somewhat small music store down the street. We didn't really expect to find much but since it was close we thought we'd give it a try anyways. We should have just walked on by - as predicted there was nothing.
Next we gave the large HMV a try. It had previously been a Virgin Mega-store but had been recently sold to HMV. What a waste of time that was. Not only was the store a total mess in terms of product placement but the staff was useless. All we got were blank stares & "Uh, I dunno if we have that kid of thing" comments. No one bothered to look anything up, they just kept shuffling us to other sections until we became frustrated & left.
Then I remebered that drug stores like Shoppers & London Drugs sell seasonal things like Halloween CD's & that I had bought one years ago from one. So off we went.
We walk in the door & the staff is already removing all of the Halloween gear - make-up, masks, candy - that they have out & are replacing them with Christmas crap. Already. It was only 2PM on October 31st. Halloween wasn't even over & these freaks are already setting us poor suckers up for a Santa buffet. Kids have not even gone trick-or-treating yet & the corporate fat-cats up in their offices are all set to remind them that the chunky guy in the red suit will be showing up in two months to hand out some more freebies.
Why does this always happen? When was the last time you went into a store & did not see some inappropriately early seasonal display? After New Years Day they set up their Valentines displays, when Feb 14th hits they are getting us ready for some mythical bunny to hand us rabbit shapped chocolate. When will it end? Can't we ever just live in the now rather then the distant future?
As a lovely side note a clerk in a shop at our local mall recently told me that they may be forced to come in on Christmas day rather then it being a holiday for them any more. It seems that the newest gossip is that Sears & The Bay may be requiring their employees to come in to work & if the big stores are open then the owners of the little ones want their chance at the cash grab too. Don't get me wrong, I don't think that Christmas is the 'end all be all' of the holiday schedule, I know that there are not a lot of options on things to do around town if you are not someone who celebrates the day & I think that sucks. I think that there should be more national holidays that would cover even more cultures & religions (that & I just like having more days off).
I'm just sick of having products for occasions two months away being shoved in my face every time that I want to go buy some shampoo.
- We found the Halloween CD at Chapters Bookstore. At least one store knows how to diversify.
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Submitted by electron105 (user info) at 2005-11-15 08:43:22 EST (#)
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Agreed. Man that stuff pisses me off so much. It gets earlier every year too.
Submitted by youarewrong (user info) at 2005-11-15 05:39:20 EST (#)
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+2 for Rocky Horror Show & Halloween being in the same sentence.
Submitted by NerfHerder (user info) at 2005-11-14 20:14:09 EST (#)
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I've seen better (-1)
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2005-11-14 19:26:17 EST (#)
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There's an old guy at my office who's currently announcing - daily, mind you - how many shopping days there are until Christmas.
On the first day of Christmas, my true love can give a hammer to me. So I can bash the old man's brains in.
Submitted by AlexorGM (user info) at 2005-11-14 18:55:21 EST (#)
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