‘Twas like a week before Hallowe’en

Every year the Christmas season starts a little earlier, and every year it takes a little more patience to get through it. The season itself is great, but the shameless, incessant marketing intrudes on more and more of our daily lives with each passing year. But I try not to complain, because even though I know a lot of other people are sick of it, I also know some jerk’s just going to call me a grinch and say I’m ruining the holidays.

Well, you know what? This is the first year that I actually started seeing Christmas ads before Hallowe’en. If that’s the way we’re doing things from this point forward, then I’d like to make you a deal.

Let me do a big, loud, preemptive “Screw Christmas” now. Let me get it out of the way now, long before anyone has any right to say the Christmas season has actually started, and by the time it genuinely rolls around I’ll have gotten it out of my system. After that, you can all enjoy it while I sleep it off in a corner somewhere. How does that sound?

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