Seriously, we go through the holiday season trying to be polite. Things like letting cars cut in front of us without flipping out, parking far away, telling a joke to get the frown of the salesman face, move at our own pace to try and keep the stress levels down, etc.

And what to we get for it ...

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Crazy parking lots with people fighting for a parking space within 10 ft of the store, people with the I'm-sick-of-everything-to-do-with-the-holidays-and-I'm-going-to-take-it-out-on-anyone-in-my-warpath, line cutters who don't have the decency to start filling out the the check before the cashier tells them the price, shoppers who can't put the shopping cart off to the side but instead find the absolute best angle/spot to block everyone else from getting by, those who tailgate you along with those who tailgate the person you let cut in front of you so you have 2 cars in front of you now, baby strollers (nuff said), and all the other things that drive you crazy.
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I could go on, but I already feel like the grinch as it is.

Anyone else?

 

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I thought I was the only one Captain... glad to hear that there is more than just one 'grinch' in the bunch.

BAH--HUMBUG!!

LOL


RP

 

Actually i dont feel like a grinch at all, but last night i went to the place in town with the most christmas lights and me and a couple of friends unplugged them all. Just for kicks.

 

i love the Holiday Season but not the Holiday shoppers!!! at around this time of year...the most inconsiderate bunch of people come out from their little holes in the ground just to torment those who are out trying to get everything without running over/beating the heck out of/hurting/killing someone. its people like that that you just want to take a tire iron to and make them an offer they can't refuse but seriously...i love the holidays!

 

I hear you captainoblivious especially the ****** that love to tailgate. I'd like to find out how to put stobelights in my truck so you could turn a switch on and all the lights, including the brake lights would stobe, you know like emergency cars/trucks, or pace cars etc.

I bet that would freak the hell out of someone tailgating you when all of a sudden your tail lights start flashing on and off.

I know there must be some type of relay or something you can buy without having to wire all the lights. Now that would put me into the Christmas spirt (flashing lights)

 

Yeah...and I'm the immature jerk.

 

Ya know, I know you're talking about people following too closely while driving but, I just had a sudden whim of a thought...

Tailgating while the women are shopping....

Tell me there isn't a market for this!?!? Set up a huge tent out in the parking lot, get DirectTV or equivalent wired in on a few tv's, bring in the hooters girls with wings (I bet hooters would voluntarily foot the bill for the tent and TVs), pump up a few kegs, charge $10/head entry. I think I'm on to something here... Hell, I'd LOVE to go shopping then! Hooters girls, wings, beer, some kind of sport on the tube... sounds like paradise.

Anyone interested in making this idea a reality next year at your local mall? I'm for hire!

RP

 

Great idea, in theory ... but who's gonna carry their shopping bags. If we don't, we get thrown in the doghouse, doghouse = no nookie =

01 XLT Sport - some guy around here had a Supra, with the push of a button the rear license plate flipped up, with the push of another button a few (6 if I remember right) ground searcher lights turned on. Talk about bright

 

I like the Christmas season ... but I hate that the season now starts before halloween! And what's up with the radio stations changing their format to all Christmas music for 2 solid months!

 

captainoblivious:

I thought about that, like maybe 3 or 4, i don't know like 30,000 candle light powered lights. Turn the switch on and gives the tailgater one hell of a sunburn, not to mention blind him for a day or two. Then my STUPID common sense took over and told me then the guy might run off the road and hurt someone innocent or someone innocent in his car like kids or something, Damn common sense can suck sometimes...

RockPick:

U DA MAN....

Tailgate party it is. I would be the one up REAL early in the morning getting my daughter out of bed, telling her "GET THE HELL OUT OF BED WE GOTS US SOME SHOPPING TO DO..."

bring on the hooters with some tasty snapper wrapper attire...

You could call this talegate party a "Hooter and Snapper feista"

 

hey '01 check around some of the snow plow sites. they should have something that might interest you. my landlord puts 'em on our snow plow truck. makes the turn signals flash almost like a cops car. really wild looking and better then adding a roof light for visibility.

i know what you mean about shoppers. the other day i had a woman cut in front of me in line. threw her stuff on the counter and the clerk started ringing her up. then she starts to make small talk about the holiday season. the only civil thing i could muster was " yep and i'm already used to the *******s cutting in front of me."

love the season, hate the self-important people that it brings out.

 

Dude, I AM the Grinch. I live to make the lives of all
those little snotty whos miserable. Seriously,
my wife often refers to me as the Grinch, although
I'll admit my heart has softened a little since my
daughter arrived. You guys hit the nail on the head
with all those "self-important", "on a mission"
shoppers out there. They are the reason why I buy
presents by mail order. There is no way in heck
I'm going to a mall, wal-mart, or anywhere the yuppies
in their big, overstuffed suvs congregate at
Christmas time. I refuse to fight with some stressed
out soccer-mom over the last barbie doll in an already
over-crowded store. And this craziness is in no way
limited to just women, I've seen men almost come to
blows in a Wally World over the last flippin' bottle of
doe pee in the hunting section. Tis the
season for Trapper to shop by catalog. Even my
wife has to agree, she no longer has that killer
instinct she use to possess. She also now orders
by catalog.

 

I feel like a Grinch during the holidays. I really hate Christmas. It really sucked for me when I was a kid, after my parents split up. It was from that point that I started hating the Christmas season. The gift giving sucks. Hardly anyone gets me anything anymore but I still have to get stuff for people. I say, lets all keep our money and get ourselves stuff. I buy myself presants all year. I don't need another sweater!(It's the thought that counts, Mom!)

I hate how everything has to be centered around Christmas. People have parties at work (not my work though), there is always some stupid Christmas special on TV, when I want to watch Law and Order! I know my girl is going to want me to do something that is Christmas related, that I won't want to do. My lack of enthusiasm will cause and argument. Thanks a bunch, Christmas!

I really hate all the Christmas displays. They keep getting bigger and bigger every year! I think the goal is to have more lights and lighted reindeer, and santas in the yard than the neighbors. Some of these people have some lights from the seventies and some new ones. They have some multi colored ones and some white ones, and some red ones, and some blue ones. They look awful! In the area that I live the city has a lightning display in the park. There is something like two miles of lighted displays. People come from miles around, tying up traffic, to see this "beautiful" display from the safety of their car, because you can't walk through!

We always had a tree growing up. Now I don't want a tree. We have a bunch of them out in the yard. My girl wants a tree though. So I said, lets get a small live one that we can plant in the yard in the spring. She liked that idea. We will use the old fashoned decoration of pop corn and cranberries, so I won't to dig up all the Christmas crap in that box in the basement.

This time of year I just pray that time flies! I would just assume skip this holiday crap. New Years Eve is the only one I like. It's a "better" excuse to drink more than I should. I could skip that one too. I usually don't remember too much of it anyhow!

Merry Christmas to all of you who are into that kind of thing. I'll be happy when it's all over!

 

wittom:

Dude, dont you know what all those pretty, pretty xmas lights are really for?

Pellet gun practice... ho, ho, ho, (click click BANG)