okay, I swear I wasn't ranting when I started writing this
I worked till close last night, which effectively led to me hating the consumer population as a whole. We closed at 7, while basically every other store (including Walmart) closed at 6, which meant a huge influx of customers at about 6:15. The PA started delivering the "FYI, we're closing" messages at 6, increasing in frequency to every five minutes by 6:45. There were still people getting in my line at a quarter after seven, people with huge piles of everyday grocery shopping. We'd been closed for 25 minutes by the time my lane cleared. It was pretty ridiculous. But that's the general "hating humanity" bit of last night.
There was one specific woman who really just ruined my night, though. She heard me wish the person in front of her a merry Christmas and this discussion ensued:
Lady: "Thank you, Rebecca, for saying Merry Christmas instead of that other awful phrase."
Me: "What phrase is that?" [WHY DID I ENGAGE HER?!]
Lady: "Happy Holidays."
Me: "Oh."
Lady: "I just think people should respect American [and here she either trailed off or stopped talking entirely, or I just stopped listening]."
Me: [says not another word to her.]
Just, you know what? Fuck you. Besides the wholly ignorant viewpoint that we should honor Christmas above all as some sort of American holiday, you know what? We say "Happy Holidays" because there are OTHER FUCKING HOLIDAYS right now. Right smack dab in the middle of Hanukkah at the moment. Kwanzaa starts tomorrow. New Year's Day comes in a week. Granted, Hanukkah's perceived importance in the US is due largely to its proximity to Christmas rather than any actual standing in Judaism, and, well, I've never actually met someone who copped to celebrating Kwanzaa, but here's the deal. As usual, the events of the Christian world are not, despite your self-centered obsession, the only happenings that matter, and "Happy Holidays" is just a quiet token hat-tip acknowledging the fact that, guess what, you DON'T make up the entire world or for that matter the entire United States of America, a country who at least in theory is founded on the ideals inclusion and sanctuary, so if you really want to respect American culture or ideology or, for that matter, holidays, you would embrace the inclusive nature of "Happy Holidays" which FOR CHRIST'S SAKE includes not only Happy Kwanzaa and Hanukkah and New Year's and Solstice and, um, Eid but also Merry Fucking Christmas, but frankly lady, I hope yours sucks. How's that for respecting your self-involved xenophobic American ass?
And also, fuck you.
And Happy Hanukkah.
Kisses,
Becka
(the Jew)
There was one specific woman who really just ruined my night, though. She heard me wish the person in front of her a merry Christmas and this discussion ensued:
Lady: "Thank you, Rebecca, for saying Merry Christmas instead of that other awful phrase."
Me: "What phrase is that?" [WHY DID I ENGAGE HER?!]
Lady: "Happy Holidays."
Me: "Oh."
Lady: "I just think people should respect American [and here she either trailed off or stopped talking entirely, or I just stopped listening]."
Me: [says not another word to her.]
Just, you know what? Fuck you. Besides the wholly ignorant viewpoint that we should honor Christmas above all as some sort of American holiday, you know what? We say "Happy Holidays" because there are OTHER FUCKING HOLIDAYS right now. Right smack dab in the middle of Hanukkah at the moment. Kwanzaa starts tomorrow. New Year's Day comes in a week. Granted, Hanukkah's perceived importance in the US is due largely to its proximity to Christmas rather than any actual standing in Judaism, and, well, I've never actually met someone who copped to celebrating Kwanzaa, but here's the deal. As usual, the events of the Christian world are not, despite your self-centered obsession, the only happenings that matter, and "Happy Holidays" is just a quiet token hat-tip acknowledging the fact that, guess what, you DON'T make up the entire world or for that matter the entire United States of America, a country who at least in theory is founded on the ideals inclusion and sanctuary, so if you really want to respect American culture or ideology or, for that matter, holidays, you would embrace the inclusive nature of "Happy Holidays" which FOR CHRIST'S SAKE includes not only Happy Kwanzaa and Hanukkah and New Year's and Solstice and, um, Eid but also Merry Fucking Christmas, but frankly lady, I hope yours sucks. How's that for respecting your self-involved xenophobic American ass?
And also, fuck you.
And Happy Hanukkah.
Kisses,
Becka
(the Jew)