Knocked out some grocery shopping for the week Monday night. WAY more crowded than normal. Today, leaving after work you could have been mistaken and thought a nuclear strike was upon us. So tomorrow starts idiot season. 6-8 weeks of it. Old ladies cutting your off, everyone speeding and driving dangerously. Longer drive time TO DO ANYTHING! Longer lines TO DO ANYTHING! I truly love Christ, and do worship. Thanksgiving and Christmas I’m working at the homeless shelter like I do every year. But this is the worst time of the year for me due to people losing their ever loving minds. They induce so much stress to everyone around them. Driving anywhere becomes treacherous. Lines everywhere, and I’m talking about normal everyday life. So here is my rant as I loathe the mother fucking consumer product bonanza season. Stay home herd, and click instead, do it for Jesus!

My view is that there are people that don't get out much. With the holidays there are out and not familiar with driving, traffic, where they are going or where they are. Last week with had an 80 something man drive the wrong way acres the Narrow Bridge. Fortunetly the police stopped him. His 80 something wife was with him. They had no idea where they were and no idea they were going the wrong way.

Very true. My LE friends loathe working this time of year due to the accidents.

During the Holiday Season, there is a lot to be thankful for.

Amazon and the internet are just a few of them.

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Originally posted by Prefontaine:
Knocked out some grocery shopping for the week Monday night. WAY more crowded than normal. Today, leaving after work you could have been mistaken and thought a nuclear strike was upon us. So tomorrow starts idiot season. 6-8 weeks of it. Old ladies cutting your off, everyone speeding and driving dangerously. Longer drive time TO DO ANYTHING! Longer lines TO DO ANYTHING! I truly love Christ, and do worship. Thanksgiving and Christmas I’m working at the homeless shelter like I do every year. But this is the worst time of the year for me due to people losing their ever loving minds. They induce so much stress to everyone around them. Driving anywhere becomes treacherous. Lines everywhere, and I’m talking about normal everyday life. So here is my rant as I loathe the mother fucking consumer product bonanza season. Stay home herd, and click instead, do it for Jesus!

The past few years have seen me lose all enthusiasm and joy for the Christmas season. I just can't stand it for the reasons stated above. The only person I buy for is my daughter and I tell the rest of my family not to get me anything.
I do cook for the family and enjoy when they come over Christmas day but it has lost its meaning to most.

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Originally posted by Prefontaine:
Knocked out some grocery shopping for the week Monday night. WAY more crowded than normal. Today, leaving after work you could have been mistaken and thought a nuclear strike was upon us. So tomorrow starts idiot season. 6-8 weeks of it. Old ladies cutting your off, everyone speeding and driving dangerously. Longer drive time TO DO ANYTHING! Longer lines TO DO ANYTHING! I truly love Christ, and do worship. Thanksgiving and Christmas I’m working at the homeless shelter like I do every year. But this is the worst time of the year for me due to people losing their ever loving minds. They induce so much stress to everyone around them. Driving anywhere becomes treacherous. Lines everywhere, and I’m talking about normal everyday life. So here is my rant as I loathe the mother fucking consumer product bonanza season. Stay home herd, and click instead, do it for Jesus!

The past few years have seen me lose all enthusiasm and joy for the Christmas season. I just can't stand it for the reasons stated above. The only person I buy for is my daughter and I tell the rest of my family not to get me anything.
I do cook for the family and enjoy when they come over Christmas day but it has lost its meaning to most.

It makes me irate because the herd celebrates the marketing of Christmas, which is entirely fake. Fake news! Bullshit, etc. wanna celebrate the Christ, go build a house for habitat humanity, or help out some battered wife get on her feet and away from the a hole. Go help someone, family member or get this, someone you don;t even know. It will bring you more joy than you’ll ever get from buying products. Have the family over, have a meal, go do something together, make a gift with your hands. Buying products is not Christmas. That’s just bs marketing propaganda. I’m all for it, free country and all, but goodness me does it completely fuck up society for 6-8 weeks. And studies show, people are the most stressed out during Holiday season. It causes the most debt. And more accidents and suicides compared to the rest of the year. It’s just off the chain.

To the people who stay home and click, my sincerest gratitude.

I live near a Best Buy and regional post office in San Diego. To get to them you get off the freeway and make the first left (across six lanes of traffic). If the postal employees weren't bad enough year-round (not stopping for the red light when exiting freeway or turning left) throw in the impatient eff'ers who'll continue this practice all day long and twice between 1630 and 1900.

It's really bad and near about the only path I can take for work.

Made an agreement with my son (my only real family) that we would no longer do Christmas or birthday gifts.
Ah, sweet freedom.
Other that the grocery store, gas station or a dire emergency, I wont set foot in a retail store until January 5th.
The holidays, starting with Halloween are just insanity. Bah, humbug!

You guys are singing my song. I share the dislike for the holiday season.

I had to stop and pick up a few things on my way home yesterday.

I stood in the checkout line for a long time.

The last time I saw thing move that slowly, there was drug involvement.

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The last time I saw thing move that slowly, there was drug involvement.

V-Tail, LMFAO. I don’t know if that was your intent, but damn that was funny

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

The last time I saw thing move that slowly, there was drug involvement.

V-Tail, LMFAO. I don’t know if that was your intent, but damn that was funny

I am pretty sure that there are many glaciers that move faster than the cashier at that register. No point moving to another line; in typical Walmart fashion, there are about thirty checkout lanes in this particular Super Center, fewer than ten of which were in operation, the afternoon before Thanksgiving. They'll probably have at least three lanes working tomorrow (Black Friday).

I thought about moving to a different lane, but there were at least a dozen customers backed up in each lane, and I was # 3 where I was. I did say, in a voice that could be heard quite clearly, "Can we please slow things down a bit? All this speed is making me a little dizzy."

I'm too old for this shit.

Well get ready. Less than 17 hours until the zombie apocalypse is upon us all.

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Well get ready. Less than 17 hours until the zombie apocalypse is upon us all.

Like a turtle. Pulling everything into my shell. Locking the door.

I went to the supermarket this morning and it was glorious; there was hardly anyone there. They were either out shopping Black Friday deals or eating leftovers tonight.

Well, thanks to Mrs. Elk I don't have to go thru that shit!!!!!!!

She does virtually all the shopping, unless it is for ammo or a new gun.

She is truly a blessing in disguise.