Benhimself wrote:It's scary how quickly things become Christmas the second Thanksgiving dies down. There are already elaborate decorations up on my street, and the stores and restaurants are playing carols as we speak.
It's interesting what a huge chunk of time Christmas conceptually takes up every year. Before it, you have all the anticipation and advertising specials and such, and afterwards, the people too lazy to take all the stuff down for several weeks.
The only logical conclusion to all this is that in the future, there will be only Christmas. New Year's Eve and Thanksgiving can only stand against it for so long, and afterwards, it'll be up to Halloween and Valentine's Day, and those two just aren't prepared! Which produced a mental image for me that I was sufficiently pleased with the writing of that I thought it worth putting here.Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve finally collapsing under the relentless assault of Christmas, its dark shadow rolling swiftly across the year, breaking briefly against the brave last stand of Halloween and Valentine's Day, natural enemies teamed up for once against this common foe, to no avail. The relentless treads of Christmas's gigantic death machines crush all resistance in minutes, roll on to effortlessly consume my birthday moments later, and eventually sweep over the last line of defence, the summer holidays.
If only Halloween and Valentine's Day had been willing to join the fight earlier, joining forces with Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve, perhaps it would have turned out better. But these things are always obvious in hindsight. They thought they could stay out of it. They thought Thanksgiving was the superpower. Tell that to the summer reindeer.
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