The world is my snowball…

[emperor_fool]

Hi, all. I haven’t been writing much here, mostly because my seasonal job in purgatory retail has been sapping my time and energy. In truth, it’s not a bad job. The people I work with are, for the most part, nice and helpful. There’s always more than enough to do, so the time passes quickly. The money, though not much, is a real help in hard times

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[emperor_fool]

Good for you...hold out! The day after Thanksgiving is the first day in which anything Christmasy should be allowed. So sayeth grinchy me.

[teotakuu]

Not that we celebrate Thanksgiving but I agree with Buffra. I don't mind playing sacred music at anytime of the year for the musical value but most of the rest is just dreadful at any other time of the year and barely marginal in the two or three weeks leading up to Christmas - and I LOVE Christmas, really.

I am glad that the rest of the retail gig isn't too foul but I have no solution to the 'cruel and unusual punishment' that the music entails

[florafloraflora]

Ugh, you had me (running away screaming) at "grown-up baritone man". There is such a thing as good Christmas music, but stores always think they're being cheery with abominations like "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" and "Walkin' in a Winter Wonderland" and, the worst, "Santa Baby".

So if you don't like the music and customers are mocking it, who exactly is it who wants to hear that crap? I can't believe music that makes people want to get the hell out of the store is conducive to higher profits, unless you've got some total substandard dreck to push and you're hoping people will grab it and run to get away from the music.

[florafloraflora]

Just thought of a bright side... maybe it will make some interesting writing fodder?

[islandmomma]

Ack you take the words from my mouth. Do alternative lyrics. Make a video. Put it on YouTube. Go viral. Become famous (and therefore rich, of course). So you don't need the job and the music!

[yokospungeon]

Those songs, as a customer, make me dangerously unstable.

They have a sort of creeping pressure cooker effect, which combined with the stress of preparations for christmas, the shopping panic and the effect of other people crowding me make me want to run screaming from the shops.

Why haven't the marketeers realised this yet??

[zz_neena]

I adore all Christmas music . . . well almost all Christmas music . . . but not all Christmas music all the time.

The only radio signal I seem to be able to hone in on on my clock-radio brings me a station that starts its all-Christmas-all-the-time programming on November first.

still haven't caught that beautiful piano piece from Charlie Brown's Christams yet, though.