Tis the season to be jolly? Not so fast, elevator music. It isn’t the season to be jolly (yet). Call me a humbug, Scrooge, or whatever else you want, but hear me out first and understand me when I say that it is too early to play Elvis Presley’s rendition of “Here Comes Santa Claus” at your local grocery store, Christmas enthusiasts. Now don’t get me wrong, I love Christmas; to me, it’s the most meaningful holiday throughout the year. I just feel it isn’t appropriate to sell obnoxious dancing, singing reindeer yet; but then again, maybe it never will be. However, because some of us don’t particularly enjoy Christmas music at the beginning of November, I suggest Thanksgiving cheer and togetherness in the meantime.
I understand. It’s hard to find similar enjoyment in this historically corrupted holiday. If Celine Dion had a Thanksgiving album then this holiday would be much more exciting. And sometimes we don’t particularly want to be with our families. Because of this, I don’t expect a Thanksgiving insurgence anytime soon. After all, how many of us would want to take a picture sitting on a man-dressed-in a turkey costume’s lap? However, I do feel that it is fair to ask that we reserve our Christmas excitement, preferably off the radio and television ads for a while, as it takes away the specialness of the holiday.
The festivities are ruined the day after Halloween, as stores proudly display Christmas garb to go along with their sales. Consumers flock to these sales with “Jingle Bells” playing as store owners laugh behind closed doors, eating their pompous, hormone-treated turkeys. The hype of Christmas sales starting at the beginning of November ruins the spirit of the year’s biggest holiday. Instead of putting focus on the nearing, closest holiday, stores diminish Christmas a month in advance.
ABC Family does it right, playing its annual 25 Days of Christmas, whereas Lifetime and Hallmark bring shame to the North Pole, playing their subpar movies at the beginning of November. The moral of this story and evident lesson from the drastic T.V. rating differences: normal people don’t want to be bothered by insistent Christmas crap a month in advance. Please try to enjoy Thanksgiving to its full extent, however that may be. For me, it’ll be football. Make our founding fathers proud by honoring the meal that probably never occured.