Braving the holiday rush at the shopping malls. Shoving aside women and children as you rush for the registers. Slamming into cars in the parking lot as you rush for the exits from the mall. Cursing at the clerk at the register (who has been there for 10 hours without a break) because he shorted you a quarter in your change.

Sometimes I really hate this time of year.

I saw all of that today at Towson Town Centre. It's really sad. Next year, Amazon.com and eBay get my Christmas money.

Still ...

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

------------------
Star Trek Gamma Quadrant
Average Rated 7.5 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux
***
Come the millennium, month 12,
In the home of greatest power,
The village idiot will come forth
To be acclaimed the leader
-Anonymous (Happy now?)
***
"Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is - I'm not sure 80 percent of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent will get it if I'm the president." - George W. Bush

And I got to hear some guy just cuss the clerk at Suncoast out because the clerk shorted him some change. I mean, it was horrible. The guy had his kid next to him, and he's just screaming "cocksucking motherfucking thief" over and over again.

And then I saw people pushing each other out of the way in the mall itself, and a couple of people coming damn close to a fist fight over a fucking parking space.

A PARKING SPACE! A few NICKELS and PENNIES!

WHAT THE FUCK?!

So much for the spirit of Christmas.

I'm going to go watch "The Princess Bride" cause nothing cheers me up like that movie.

------------------
Star Trek Gamma Quadrant
Average Rated 7.5 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux
***
Come the millennium, month 12,
In the home of greatest power,
The village idiot will come forth
To be acclaimed the leader
-Anonymous (Happy now?)
***
"Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is - I'm not sure 80 percent of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent will get it if I'm the president." - George W. Bush

------------------
"What happens on the edges of infinity, the never-never land of mathematics?"
-Miss Hodgin

Do you give gifts for Boxer's Day? I think I might move to Canada.

------------------
Star Trek Gamma Quadrant
Average Rated 6.83 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux
***
Come the millennium, month 12,
In the home of greatest power,
The village idiot will come forth
To be acclaimed the leader
-Anonymous (Happy now?)
***
"Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is - I'm not sure 80 percent of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent will get it if I'm the president." - George W. Bush

------------------
I have been floated to this spot this hour
On a series of events
I cannot explain
--
Olivia Tremor Control
****
Read chapters one and two of "Dirk Tungsten in...The Disappearing Planet"! Read, read, read, read, read me now.

------------------
"What happens on the edges of infinity, the never-never land of mathematics?"
-Miss Hodgin

Whats the difference? =)

------------------
Star Trek Gamma Quadrant
Average Rated 6.83 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux
***
Come the millennium, month 12,
In the home of greatest power,
The village idiot will come forth
To be acclaimed the leader
-Anonymous (Happy now?)
***
"Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is - I'm not sure 80 percent of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent will get it if I'm the president." - George W. Bush

------------------
"What happens on the edges of infinity, the never-never land of mathematics?"
-Miss Hodgin

------------------
Star Trek Gamma Quadrant
Average Rated 6.83 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux
***
"Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is - I'm not sure 80 percent of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent will get it if I'm the president." - George W. Bush

------------------
Re: Russia in WWII

"Hey, we butchered Poles! Thats OK."
- DT.

I read Dickens' A Christmas Carol every year at this time. Personally, I recommend that everyone do so. If nothing else, it might calm down a few of the idiots such as the ones Jeff encountered at the mall...