I forgot, he took my car to work with him yesterday.
I readjust all that, then start the car. NPR is on. Another sign. Michael religiously listens to National Public Radio. I hit one of the presets, looking for anything but NPR and...
WHAT!?
Are you kidding me!?
CHRISTMAS MUSIC?
On November 8!?
Stunned, I listen to the rest of Barbra Streisand singing her weird version of Jingle Bells, sure the easy-listening station is going to play a relatively normal song next, perhaps a little Sarah MacLachlan or Jewel... but no.
It's Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
They're playing Christmas music, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from now until Christmas Day. They've been playing Christmas music, apparently, since the day after Halloween.
Two MONTHS of Christmas music!? This is like a prescription for Christmas music overdose...by Thanksgiving!
Are they crazy? What marketing rep out there really thought this was a good idea? Do they honestly think we're all going to panic ourselves into a consumerist Christmas shopping frenzy because they're playing Bob Segar's Little Drummer Boy every hour on the hour?
Someone, please, stop the insanity!
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It's crazy! We don't do Halloween. So on Oct 31st, we went out to a nice dinner and then headed to Target to pick a few items up. When we walk into the store, guess what we were greeted with? Yep! You guessed it: Christmas decorations. Even my kids stopped and stared in disbelief.
Next year, they'll have Christmas up before the end of September.
LOL!! Okay, okay...I just love Christmas!! ;D
The only insanity I read in this posting was the statement " ... anything but NPR." What is it you do not want to understand?
News is depressing. I pick and choose what I listen to. And NPR particularly can be rather... biased, let's say. Not that most news organizations aren't. *shrug*
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