. . . for crrr-aziness! Here's a few things I've noticed:
- Black Friday has morphed into Black Every Day since then. I drive by Battlefield Mall and the Independence Street strip of stores on the way to work and people are shopping like it's Christmas Eve crunch-time already. Folks, today is only December 3! You've got twenty days until Christmas Eve, including three weekends, to shop, so calm down and pace yourselves.
- The American Research Group Inc.'s website says the average American family will spend $854 on Christmas this year. Eight hundred and fifty-four bucks!! Where are people getting all this money to blow on Christmas gifts? That is two months worth of my piddly part-time job paychecks, no way am I spending that much. I guess I should take comfort in the fact that I'm not "average."
- This is the first time I can remember seeing folks strapping Christmas trees to their cars wearing SHORTS! It feels more like spring this holiday season than fall. This beach-babe-at-heart is loving it! Keep it coming.
- I saw an older man driving a pristine red 1970s-era yacht-sized Cadillac with white convertible top through my neighborhood the other day. Hanging from the grill was a Christmas wreath as big as a bird bath. If the man had been sporting a white beard to go with his long white hair, I would swear it must've been the Santa Mobile I saw. I smiled and waved just in case he was cruising to see who's been naughty and nice.
- Yesterday DMan and I were walking our neighborhood to check out a cul-de-sac where all the houses are decked out with lights and, according to their sign, the lights even dance to music when you tune in to a radio frequency. It wasn't dark so the display wasn't lit up, but from the amount of extension cords running everywhere -- there was even a heavy-duty rubber channel running across the road with cords in it -- that place will put the Griswald house to shame. At one house, there are two thirty-foot-plus trees with orange cords duck taped to the trunk running all the way to the top, not to mention lights strung on nearly every inch of the house. And the homeowner was up on a ladder stringing up even more lights! I wonder if that $854 spent on Christmas includes utility bills? City Utilities must love that neighborhood! We'll have to go back see the spectacle after dark. I may need to take my sunglasses so I don't go blind.
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