It’s getting extremely difficult to avoid the Christmas season. I know I said that I was holding off on this subject until after Thanksgiving, like everybody else should. But when I walked into Menards yesterday they had a display high up in the middle of the store with a giant inflated ghoul playing a blood soaked organ in a graveyard right next to the giant inflated Santa riding a sleigh full of toys. It was like The Nightmare Before Christmas.
It’s seems impossible for the stores to wait for one holiday to end before starting another. I knew the Christmas shopping season arrived last week when I heard my first “holiday” jewelry commercial. They announced the season without actually saying the word Christmas, telling us that we need to start thinking about that special someone who has been there for us all year long. In the background the music played with a slight hint of Christmas bells, just enough to plant the shopping seeds.
I don’t think those three wise men knew what they were starting when they came knocking at the stable door. They were just bringing birthday gifts for the new baby but as it turned out, it was like their equivilent of getting your moment on Oprah. After she wraps her hands around your idea, everybody wants in on it.
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