Christmas Shopping Is For The Birds by Rambling Raven
By Raven • Dec 20th, 2009 • Category: Rambling Raven •
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Christmas Shopping Is For The Birds by Rambling Raven
Over the past few years I have done most of my shopping via the net. I am not ashamed to admit that I am an Amazon.com fanatic. Give me a few hours and a cup of tea and my entire Christmas shopping list is done with a few clicks of the mouse. This year, due to time restraints and the the need to get out, I decided to hit the stores for my Christmas shopping. Big mistake!
I learned this past weekend that I don’t do well with crowds. Is it me or are people in general rude and ignorant? Wherever I went people were pushing, butting in line, holding up the checkouts with stupid questions and indecisiveness. And although we are suppose to be in a recession, items were flying off the shelves causing me to visit more than one store for a specific gift.
I went to Target where the crowds were especially large, adding to my frustration. And due to all the traffic the escalators broke down, as well as one of the elevators. Therefore, the only way up to and down from the second level was to hit the stairs or stand in one long line for the one working elevator. Of course people were trying to jump ahead of customers to get on the elevator causing nasty looks and comments from others. If it wasn’t for me actually needing to get an item that they had for a gift I would have said to hell with it all and left.
Another thing that irked me while I was out at the stores were all the children running about. Why do people take their children Christmas shopping with them? Children were opening packages, running up and down the isles and screaming for items they couldn’t have. Parents were bargaining with their children, screaming at them or threatening to cancel Christmas altogether.
The weather wasn’t all that great as well. Although that huge storm passed us by, it was still cold and gray outside. I think I was more depressed after I went shopping than I was before I went. I couldn’t wait to get home, all I could think of was my cozy slippers, my pajamas and that soothing cup of tea. Next year I will do all my Christmas shopping stress free, via the net.
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Raven is an educator with a B.A. in Psychology and a M.A. in Education. She has been an avid reader since childhood. Her favorite genres are mystery, suspense, and horror, although she will give any genre a try. She is a life long resident of Chicago. Her love of books opened her mind to people, places and events far beyond her Chicago home. Reading helped to shape her world and her opinion of the events that took place within it. No matter what demands her career requires of her, she has always found time to read and write in a journal. Along with reading and journaling, she loves to watch the sunset, and discuss hot topics with family and friends. She loves baseball, horror movies, mysteries, listening to music from every corner of the world and expressing her view of the latest books with the women of APOOO.
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