It starts! The Christmas SCs

[Cosmic Cat]

It puts me off too, especially seeing as I have learned to seriously dislike Christmas Carols (Except for Christmas at Ground Zero, and The Night Santa Went Crazy), but I know where they're coming from. Fortunately, I have no guilt, or shame. Working on the whole embarressment thing.

Christmas music. Ewwww! My store starts playing Christmas music nonstop before Thanksgiving! I came in one day and had been at work for fifteen minutes, chatting to one of my fellow cashiers, when I suddenly said, "Is that 'Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer' on the radio?"

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Christmas music. Ewwww! My store starts playing Christmas music nonstop before Thanksgiving! I came in one day and had been at work for fifteen minutes, chatting to one of my fellow cashiers, when I suddenly said, "Is that 'Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer' on the radio?"

AAAAAHHHH!

Bing Crosby and Burl Ives and "Santa Baby" (whoever wrote that song needs to go straight into the ), along with Hilary Duff, Simple Plan, Mariah Carey and the Pretenders.

Plus it's so damn repetitive. You can hear the same song three times or more in an 8-hour shift. I wish they would do like they did some years ago, where they mixed the Christmas carols in with the regular muzak.

[Becks]

Bing Crosby and Burl Ives and "Santa Baby" (whoever wrote that song needs to go straight into the ), along with Hilary Duff, Simple Plan, Mariah Carey and the Pretenders.

Plus it's so damn repetitive. You can hear the same song three times or more in an 8-hour shift. I wish they would do like they did some years ago, where they mixed the Christmas carols in with the regular muzak.

I totally agree with everything.

However, I feel that they don't play "Little Drummer Boy" nearly often enough ...it's my favorite.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

AAAAAHHHH!

Bing Crosby and Burl Ives and "Santa Baby" (whoever wrote that song needs to go straight into the ), along with Hilary Duff, Simple Plan, Mariah Carey and the Pretenders.

Plus it's so damn repetitive. You can hear the same song three times or more in an 8-hour shift. I wish they would do like they did some years ago, where they mixed the Christmas carols in with the regular muzak.

I love to hear "Santa Baby," which is sung by Eartha Kitt, BTW. I have a Christmas desktop theme of Marilyn Monroe w/that song playing upon Startup

There are some Christmas songs I enjoy, however if I have to hear "It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" anymore, I think I'll scream

[Seanette]

It puts me off too, especially seeing as I have learned to seriously dislike Christmas Carols (Except for Christmas at Ground Zero, and The Night Santa Went Crazy), but I know where they're coming from. Fortunately, I have no guilt, or shame. Working on the whole embarressment thing.

I recommend either Bob Rivers or the Tales From the Crypt Christmas album as a sanity-protector. As important as Christmas is to me, hearing the standard carols for something like two months drives me up the wall.

[Jester]

It's times like this that I love the fact that I work in food service, not retail. Booze and food are booze and food, and other than some meal specials we may run the day before/day of the two big holidays, nothing much changes there. Also, the music at the one job is live bands (yay!) or a jukebox (yay!), and at the other job, the bartender on duty (which is of course me if I am there) controls the DMX (yay!) so I have to deal with the Christmas idiocy far less than y'all.

And as much as I poo poo Christmas music, and think the retailers have gone completely insane with how early they are doing this nonsense, I am somehow always the first one at any job to be sporting a Santa hat. But I have my reasons for that....it lets me be goofy, it lets me wear a hat, it lets me not worry about dealing with my hair that day, and it gets me better tips. Really.

Last Christmas, I ran a drink special Christmas Day: "Blue Christmas Margaritas." Yes, they were blue margaritas. Yes, they tasted the exact same as a regular margarita. Why? For those who don't know, blue curacao is a blue-colored orange liqueur, and is used any time you want to make a blue drink. Margaritas are made with triple sec, Cointreau, or Grand Marnier, all of which are varieties of orange liqueur. Meaning, of course, that blue curacao is basically just blue triple sec. Most people found it hilarious, which was why I did it. (On Thanksgiving I ran specials on Wild Turkey and Vodka and Cranberry Juice. ) But this one dude was insistent he would not drink a blue margarita, that he wanted a regular one. After repeated being told by both his wife and myself that there was no difference, he finally tried it, and said, "Wow! It tastes just like a margarita!" Um, DUH!

So, in the spirit of a tropical Christmas, allow me to present to you my own Christmas carol, Jester's Tropical Christmas.

Oh, the weather up north is frightful,
but the island is so delightful.
And since the beer's the only thing that's cold,
let it flow, let it flow, let it flow!

[AFpheonix]

mmmmmmmmmm........sweet, sweet margarita........

[ditchdj]

It amazes me these kind of retail jobs are STILL in demand. With gas prices up 300 percent and energy costs and everything else starting to catch up, there's literally no money in it. If someone offered me a job like that for only 5-6 bucks an hour I'd rudely tell him/her where to put that "job".

[friendofjimmyk]

Oh dear lord, Christmas is almost here isn't it? I almost forgot. I am going on my second year of not officially celebrating Christmas. It's kind of hard to get my family to accept that. It's a little easier now that I live several states away from all my family. I am not Christian so I see no reason to celebrate Christmas. The most I will do is send out "Holiday Greetings" cards and bake some cookies. Really, I just look for the excuse to bake cookies!

[protege]

After dealing with idiot Christmas customers, I'm glad I start my holiday shopping in July This year, I plan on staying out of the malls and the related traffic.

[friendofjimmyk]

I will probably venture out to the malls once or twice even though I won't shop. I think there is some nostalgia towards Christmas that I still have. Maybe sit on Santa's lap! Give the ol man a smile!

[Deceptitech]

I loathe Christmas

Ah, the Christmas spirit, where people will make claims that YOU ruined their christmas because they are incompetent. I mean really, ordering something at 11 PM on the 23rd and expect next day shipping to get it there by 10 am on the 24th? My favorite 2 lines to use when someone tells me I ruined their christmas...

"That's right ma'am, I woke up this morning, and pointed to a random name in a random phone book I keep in my home. It just so happens that your name got chosed, and the goal was to ruin your christmas. My work is done."

"Sir, you may want to start praying to Jesus for this, because I cannot bend the laws of space, time, and reality to insure your child's toy will be there tomorrow so he can open up that present. I am not a miracle worker, although I've been told Jesus can perform some amazing feats. Give him a call, and have him run your package to your place. Here is the Fed Ex tracking number."

[South Texan]

Ah, the Christmas spirit, where people will make claims that YOU ruined their christmas because they are incompetent. I mean really, ordering something at 11 PM on the 23rd and expect next day shipping to get it there by 10 am on the 24th?

Two years or so ago, my youngest decided she only wanted something called Miracle Baby (or something with the word miracle in it) for Christmas. She told Santa that that was it for her whole list. Nothing more.

Of course, Miracle was one of THE hot toys that year. I looked for four weeks, and even tried to order it from websites. Everything was sold out. I almost was frantic enough to consider that this was a big, sadistic joke played upon parents by toy companies to guilt us into spending a bunch more on other toys to make up for the one requested toy we could not find.

Three days before Christmas, I was a wreck trying to find that doll or planning how Santa would explain the substitute, when I came across one buried on the wrong shelf in a very disheveled Toys R Us. Its box was banged up something fierce, but the doll inside was in good shape. I am sure the employees thought me insane when I (a large, forty-ish man with a beard) literally shrieked/squealed for joy in the Barbie aisle.

I bought it immediately. I FORGOT THE STUPID BATTERIES!

[friendofjimmyk]

I am sure the employees thought me insane when I (a large, forty-ish man with a beard) literally shrieked/squealed for joy in the Barbie aisle.

That is such a heartwarming story! Really, it is. Nothing would've been more special to see a father get all happy over finding that toy that his little one wanted!

[Dreamstalker]

There are some Christmas songs I enjoy, however if I have to hear "It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" anymore, I think I'll scream

For me, it's most any songs that have been overplayed/covered to death. Doubly so if it's a cover done by some bubblegum pop group.

My faves are Chipmunk Christmas (possibly because it can be so amusingly annoying) and Tom Lehrer's "A Christmas Carol". I do like some of Trans-Siberian Orchestra's stuff because even the traditional tunes are nontraditional.