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I worked in retail to put myself through college and, without a doubt, the jerks do come out at Christmas and inflict themselves on others. I had never seen or experienced the kind of brutish behavior I saw at that job and I've had lots of jobs. We had people come in that were just looking for a fight and we were their verbal punching bags. It was really sad, but it reinforced my desire to finish college and begin my career.
I think everybody should work in retail and be a server at some point in their lives just so they know what truly difficult jobs they can be and how badly people behave around Christmas. I'm not quite sure why it is worse at Christmas, but I'd guess it's a combination of unfulfilled expectations, financial problems, feeling rushed, family pressures, mismanaged time, and lack of empathy. It's a sad commentary on our society to be sure.
Holy hell Batman, I witnessed the following this afternoon:
I was cruising (creeping with 10 billion other cars) down Katy Freeway and Gessner (Memorial City Mall) past a very busy driveway. There was a long line of cars waiting to turn into that driveway. As I was going by, this big guy bounds out of his car, dashes to the car in front of him, pulls his fist back and SLAMS it into the driver's window. Then starts gesturing wildly and screaming at the driver. He would have certainly punched the s*#t out of that driver if the window wasn't up, I heard his fist THUNK against the glass as I drove by, that's how hard he hit it
I have seen this too...but only in big cities. Driving gets waaaaaaaaaaaaay worse. ugh. I hate it. I guess people are stressed and self centered and need a visit from ghost of christmas past or something
sad they are out there all the time. just during the Christmas season they are out --and we are out--among us so much more.
but then i suffer from "sad". just depression times 1,000 to the 1,000,000,000 power.
(so i will not type here how i really feel).
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