Current mood:

cranky

Has all of retail gone 100% PC all the time...???.
AAARRRGGGHHH!!!!!!! What is getting into peoples heads anyway?!?!?! I used to work retail once upon a time. I hope to GOD I was NEVER this bad! Today, I went to Office Depot to buy a replacement ink cartridge for our computer at the hotel. Everything was going fine except for the annoying Christmas music being played from a boom box at the front of the store. During checkout, I mentioned to the cashier that we are coming up to Thanksgiving when she wished me "Happy Holiday". She looked at me a little strange and commented that she isn't allowed to say Happy Thanksgiving because some people find the holiday offensive. Have we really gone this far? Gees, people, relax and enjoy some turkey. If 'turkey day' isn't your thing then at least let those of us who are still believers in the 'American Ideal' have one day a year. Is this too much to ask? I can't have a Christmas tree because people of other religions are going to be offended. I can't have a new years celebration because not all people celebrate new years the same day. I can't have easter because I'll offend 'other' religions. I can't have memorial day because the Japanese get upset. I can't have July 4th because foreign students are angry. I have to work on labor day. We can't have days for different people, we have to have President's Day. Now we have to have Lee,Jackson,King day all rolled together, but don't mention Lee or Jackson in schools. I think I'll snap one year and just get a huge holly topiary done in a cone shape, place a star on top labeled Sirius, and cover it with real candles, American flags, Confederate flags, multiple holy symbols, then drop it in the middle of the Mall in DC and dare anybody to move it. I've about had it.

BTW, Happy Thanksgiving!

Carl