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December 15, 2006, 9:49 am PST

12/13 Holiday Horror Stories

Quote From: susanashe

I watched the show on Thursday, December 14th about the guests that disliked Xmas. As a 48 year old female I have also always disliked the holidays. Mostly for the fact that when I entered the work force I did so in a job that required me to work on all holidays, so Thanksgiving, Xmas and New Years were all just another day as far as I was concerned. Now, as I have gotten older and no longer work those days I do work in a large office environment that promotes the Xmas dinners, etc. I don't feel like participating in any mandatory practices. Just because the calendar shows we should, doesn't mean we all feel that way. Especially the holidays are rough for me since my father passed away 10 years ago - and without him, there is no family left. I have children and grandchildren that I see and call and wish a Merry Xmas but as far as anything else to do with the holidays I would actually prefer staying home by myself and clean my house or watch TV. I have a good male friend that I have spent the holidays with just because his family is scattered and they celebrate their holidays at other times - but if I don't get together with him for dinner and a day of movies, then I do nothing. I hate the comments about me being a scrooge, I hate the fact that people always ask me WHY WHY WHY ? I don't have to explain why ! I am a grown woman with my own reasons. I feel the same way about birthdays. If we cannot be nice to each other 365 days out of the year then why force the niceness onto one day because it says December 25th ??? Besides all of that I was listening to the radio yesterday on my drive to work and out of the 5 preset radio stations on my car radio ALL 5 had some kinds of advertisements for stores having sales for last minute Xmas gifts! What ever happened to the real reason we are supposed to be celebrating this day ? I get more and more annoyed with the holidays each and every year when I go into a store to buy Halloween candy and they already have Xmas stuff in stock - c'mon people ! In OCTOBER ??? If you know someone that doesn't care for the holidays they have their reasons and they really are NOT under any obligation to share those reasons with you ! If someone says no to a part then leave it at that - take the NO and move on. I always enjoyed HOLIDAY dances but that was when I worked on a committee for my old corporation and I so enjoyed dressing up and socializing with my friends. But, again, that was because we all wanted to be together, and not HAD to be.

You do know you have a choice in being annoyed by radio ads right?

And holidays are just special days. I AM nice all 365 days of the year...but this is a day where everyone decides to celebrate together.

I'm sorry about your father.

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