Even if I'm early, I'd like to air my grievances:
- The Post Office
- Crappy drivers who don't know how to drive in a smattering of snow
- Peaking children
- Not enough hiding places
- When Christmas wrap tears right at the end of wrapping the present.
- Oddly shaped gifts -- ok, so I'm not my mom who has 1,000 Herberger's boxes stock piled.
- Shoppers and shopping -- I always anticipate Christmas shopping is going to be like "Silver Bells," and I'm constantly disappointed.
- Cashiers who pretend to be super nice but they're actually being horrible. I want to scream: Just be rude! At least then I'd respect you.
- Again, the Post Office - now I'm paranoid they won't deliver any packages to me because I've called and complained so much.
- The Dishes (nothing to do with Christmas, but now I'm on a roll)
- Smug gym people who feel they own the place just because they NEVER SEEM TO LEAVE
- Bad movies that I want to just turn off early, but I don't feel like I've gotten my money's worth if I do, then I just get upset at the end that they robbed me two hours of my life I'll never get back.
- Laundry hampers -- why can't my bank account have the same physical properties of constantly being full to bursting? (This is a rhetorical question -- NOT to be answered in the comments section, thank you very much)
- Cold weather -- I know I have barely any room to complain, considering no Nor'Easters will be blowing my way, but hey -- this is my festivus list -- I can do what I want! Make your own!
From Wikipedia: Festivus is an annual holiday created by writer Dan O'Keefe and introduced into popular culture by his son Daniel, a scriptwriter for the TV show Seinfeld.[1][2] Although the original Festivus took place in February 1966 as a celebration of O'Keefe's first date with his wife, Deborah,[2] many people now celebrate the holiday on December 23, as depicted on the December 18, 1997 Seinfeld episode "The Strike".[1][3] According to O'Keefe, the name Festivus "just popped into his head."[2] The holiday includes novel practices such as the "Airing of Grievances", in which each person tells everyone else all the ways they have disappointed him or her over the past year. Also, after the Festivus meal, the "Feats of Strength" are performed, involving wrestling the head of the household to the floor, with the holiday only ending if the head of the household is actually pinned.
2 comments:
FESITVUS FOR THE REST OF US!
When do you bring out the silver pole and do the feats of strength? Heheh.
I totally agree with your list. I feel like I start off each Christmas season full of optimism and Christmas cheer. By the middle of December I feel so overwhelmed, and decide to hang out in my pajamas the rest of the month :)
Hang in there. And, if it makes you feel any better. I officially stink at laundry. Really. Clarke has finally taken matters into his own hands, because as he has said: If I don't do it, it's not going to get done. Can I help it that he can't just live in pajamas for days like the kids and I can? And that he doesn't seem to have as large a supply of pajamas as we do, anyway.
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