Harley's view of Christmas (Not for the festive at heart)
Now I' am not going to say I hate EVERYTHING about Christmas, I don't mind the whole family thing and cranberries and stuffing are two great things, but that's where my enjoyment ends. It starts in November, as soon as Halloween ends the collective low attention span of people turns it's head towards Christmas. First it's those annoying ads selling crap that was cheaper in August, had it's priced raised in October and is now "on sale" at prices just slightly above what they were two month's before ( On a side note why do all radio commercials have to have a crummy jingle with them? I mean you listen to three or four great songs and then you're brought down with something like 123 it's okay, call 416-Chevrolet. Anyways). Then you get those stupid people who put out their Christmas lights a full two month's before the holidays and run them all night, and we wonder about ways to conserve energy, these are also the same people who spray their lawns with pesticides and spend hours toiling away with hedge clippers and fertilizer because after all, we REALLY do care about you're lawn. Then it comes, the dreaded first old navy commercial, filled with fake snow, bad music and a bunch of kids with less total body fat then I got in my right arm, and of course sprinkle a few minorities in, but never in the front of the camera only off to the side, you might upset old navies old customers. Then you have parades, three hours of thousands of kids asking their parent, where's santa? Where's Santa? WHERE'S SANTA? Only to see a middle age fat man (who probably doubles as the local drunk, ya know the big red nose and the beer belly) surrounded by fake reindeer, trying not to s ...