Holiday Joy is strong with this one

[shankyknitter]

So I work at a chain craft store, let us just call it AC Mike Ann's, and as it was a crappy year for the economy SCs took to craft stores in force to attempt, gods of retail help us all, to make their own gifts. All this means for the sake of this tale is that I dealt with more SCs than normal.

This gentleman was the worst.

Me: poor long suffering cashier
SC: hardcore turd monkey

Scene: checks SC out just fine, he and lovely wife had bought winter stuff, nothing overly Christmas related, snowmen and snowflakes.

Me: thank you for shopping at AC Mike Ann's, happy holidays!
SC: No, it's Merry Christmas.
Me: Oh, sorry sir I didn't want to presume.
SC: you live in a GOD DAMNED CHRISTIAN country it's merry FUCKING CHRISTMAS!
Me: I already apologized sir, have a wonderful Christmas.
SC: it's dirty fucking PC love everybody hippies like you that are destroying the meaning of christmas!!!!GR ARRG!!!!

Now as an aside, I am not a christian and have not been for several years. Normally I don't bring this up however this gentleman was pissing me off at this point. I wear a skirt to work and a have a pagan based tattoo on my lower leg. From were I am standing he can see my lower leg and thus the tattoo if I raise the skirt a bit.

SC: *still ranting about how liberals are destroying God-Fearing Americans*
Me: Sir I apologize for offending you however not everyone in this country is christian, we do have freedom of religion and everyone has a holiday around this time. *lifts skirt enough to show tattoo* Have a joyous yule.

His wife started laughing and dragged him out.

[fireheart]

Where is this tattoo?

And nice work. My boyfriend is Asatru (Viking paganism) and while he doesn't mind me saying Merry Xmas to him, he'll still celebrate Yule in his own way.

[MrsEclipse]

He can be happy on Christmas. I hope he's miserable all Hanukkah, Yule, New Years, Kwanzaa, and every other holiday in December.

[Sheldonrs]

Is the tattoo a Yule "log"? hehehe

[South Texan]

SC: you live in a GOD DAMNED CHRISTIAN country it's merry FUCKING CHRISTMAS!

You are one composed lady, Shankyknitter.

I think I honestly would have responded to that one with, "Oh, very well then. If that is how you wish it. Merry Fucking Christmas to you!"

.

[Estil]

it's merry FUCKING CHRISTMAS!

I don't suppose that was Mr. Garrison from South Park, was it?

[RootedPhoenix]

SC: *still ranting about how liberals are destroying God-Fearing Americans*

...did he say anything about how the sky was falling? >.<

Because, you know, there are other people in the world who celebrate other things this time of year. How apocalyptic.

He can be happy on Christmas. I hope he's miserable all Hanukkah, Yule, New Years, Kwanzaa, and every other holiday in December.

He's probably miserable enough being himself year-round.

[Crawling_Chaos]

I must say, you have great force of will to maintain your composure thru that. I myself would have dressed the guy down with a bit of history and education and then sent him on his way with a "Happy Solstice".

It is people like him that irk me the most. They have zero clue on what and where their own holiday comes from, and then get ranty about other people celebrating other, far older, holidays. It makes me steam all the time. I will stop now as I fear I will trip the abyssal rim of Fratching territory.

[Kristev]

I must say, existing in the ridiculous state of Idaho as I do, I quite enjoy the wilting look on their faces when Christians try to shove "Christmas" in my face when I'm in a bad mood. I explain to them part of the history of the winter solstice and old paganism, and that Christ is actually supposed to be born around March. Their bravado falls down like a house of cards.

[SuperRTL]

Personally, I told everybody to have a good evening. Some people would come back with Merry Christmas! I usually managed to look startled and say "Is it that time already?" Everybody laughed and left as quickly as possible.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

And this is why I stick with "Have a nice day," even during the holidays.

Yeah, it's completely soulless. But I haven't had anybody get in my face and snarl "What if I want to have a bad day, huh?" yet.

[Calvin St.Hobbes]

A couple of weeks ago I said "Happy Holidaze" to a customer that I helping load grills in his truck and he replied "We say Merry christmas around here!!!"
I explained that as long as I was wishing him anything that starts with "Merry,Joyious or Happy" that I was wishing him good cheer and he should just take it as that...
What I left out was that I say "Fuck You!!!" all year long

[PixelJockey]

SC: you live in a GOD DAMNED CHRISTIAN country it's merry FUCKING CHRISTMAS!

...umm... actually according to everything the US founding fathers laid down you live in a secular country with the right to religious freedom guaranteed in the bill of rights. We can start living under fundamentalist Christian law anytime you like but life will not be warm & fuzzy then... you'll enjoy Levitican law, especially the stonings & burnings. You'll long for the heady days of being able to cherry-pick from the tenets of your religion when state officials with guns are enforcing the whole fire-and-brimstone thing... prick.

<sigh> I'd love to have the chance to say that...

[AyreBiskits]

Yeah, it's completely soulless. But I haven't had anybody get in my face and snarl "What if I want to have a bad day, huh?" yet.

i've had some of those. they're a treat! they just make my day

[Draevis]

Maybe the SC is a fan of Denis Leary's Christmas Special - "Merry F@#$*#$@ Christmas!"?

I know I am