Ah, I'm glad the holidays are over. Sure, you get presents and all, but the cons outweigh the pros in my books. To start, there's the shopping for everyone else, fighting through the hordes of last-minute shoppers, and waiting for seemingly days of check-out lines.

Yet I still have to work. I just love this time of year when I come in to work to hear a Salvation Army bell ringing right next to me allllll day. There's nothing I want more than to be temporarily deaf from the metallic clanging of it all day, over and over, for hours and hours. Then there is that short-lived feeling of happiness knowing you're going away from it only to then realize you'll be coming in tomorrow to do it all over again.

And if you somehow get far enough away from the bell-ringers from hell, you have to listen to Christmas music. What's that? Christmas music isn't too bad? My friend, try listening to it for endless hours with the ever-present bellringing in the background. Try listening to eight different versions of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer within two hours. Try not bashing your head in as famous musicians over-do every note of every song.

And then there's the fashion police. I wear shorts to work, even in the winter time. So this makes me the butt of all jokes. I'll be out getting shopping carts from the parking lot, and my boss will just be coming in to work.

He'll stop and say "Hey Steve. Did you get the memo?".
I'll say "No, I don't think so. What did it say?".
He'll say "It's winter." *looks at my shorts*

And the customers will always ask if I'm cold or not. If I was cold, why would I wear them? I get asked that AT LEAST 20 times a day.

So I'm glad the holiday season is over ^^