Among the time-honored festivities we find:
The Gala of the Gut wherein we are encouraged to eat a special meal and then brag about how much we ate. As part of the celebration, the males of the household watch football on TV and the females wash the dishes. A holiday for some is not necessarily a holiday for all ...
The Friday Fights and Free For Alls - when merchants encourage greed by discounting many of the items in their emporiums to encourage people to leave their cozy homes in favor of camping out city-style on the sidewalks and parking lots of said markets to be first when management opens the store doors. So far this 2017, a 19 year old male was shot in Columbia, Missouri, and is at the moment "spending" in an ICU. An entire mall in Alabama had to be closed due to the rioting wanna-be customers.
We are not safe in our own homes from offerings of deeply discounted items on line. So far this morning RiteAid and The Irish Store specifically have let it be known that they crave my patronage.
And yet there is hope. At 11 a.m. today Father Joe of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church will be blessing the trees at the Kiwanis Christmas Tree Lot, Pacific Coast Highway and Pier Avenue. The blessing is said to be a tool to remind us of Jesus existence and (presumed) goodness. I doubt that there will be any riots nor fights over the perfect tree.
A much more genteel event. Viva Tradition!
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