The season of giving? Maybe, but not necessarily of shopping.
Around about the week before Thanksgiving, the pressure starts. The ads begin to suggest “the perfect gift for the such & such on your list”. The list is assumed. Of course everyone has a List. Everyone must be buying. Then that post-turkey Friday comes and the frenzy in the stores begins.
The crowds. The sensory overload of enforced commercial festivity.
“Bring on the cheer, dammit!” seems to be the underlying messsage of the barrage of Christmas music, holiday movie promotions, and red & green advertising plastered on every surface. Sometimes it seems like you couldn’t throw a rock without hitting a Santa (and as December barrels on, the tempation to do so grows)…
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