This weekend was one of our busiest weekends in a long time. Non-stop rushes of people taking advantage of the many coupons floating around.
Many of the shoppers purchased winter coats, yet I'm uncertain if it was due to the weather reports of snow or the great deals. The most shocking event of the day was something that I hoped against until at least after Thanksgiving: Christmas Music.
Yes people, my major retail store started playing Christmas music on November 6th, not the week before Thanksgiving and definitely not after Thanksgiving.
There I was listening to the regular play list of popular music when suddenly "Christmas time is here..." and I unconsciously began humming my favorite Charlie Brown Christmas theme. Suddenly my body froze from the shock. The store made Christmastime here in the beginning of November.
Sure I wrote about the merchandise and trees in my previous post Christmas Has Arrived, but I could ignore the decorations and walk by the merchandise with blinders. The music takes things to a whole new level of torture.
I can't avoid the music.Unfortunately, salespeople are not allowed to wear their iPod's while working. The Christmas music is like the Ebola virus. It infects my blood with a neurological strain of predatory bacteria that makes me hum along with the song.
My store was very subtle with the change. I was ringing out customers to Alicia Keys and Train when some bells started jingling. Everyone of the customers looked at me and asked, "Christmas music already?" I nodded and told them, "At least you can leave, I've still got six more hours of this."
Each day I go to work trying to block out the music, but it would appear that I have no choice. The mall has erected their tree and Santa is coming next Saturday. The Christmas music is killing me softly with strains of "Christmas Time" and "All I Want For Christmas".
I get in my car after each shift and turn on music other than Christmas, anything just to cleanse my mind of a season I refuse to start acknowledging until after Thanksgiving.
I found this very interesting. I could picture myself there in the store. (I'm from blogcataloque by the way.)
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for the comment. I'm glad I can paint the image for you. Blending non-fiction with imagery for a wide audience is challenging, but fun.
ReplyDeleteI laughed right out loud!!! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
ReplyDeleteWe had Back To School in July. Hey the kids hadn't gotten half-way through their summer vacation yet!
At the end of August the decorations and candy displays were already apparent in the grocery stores. Costumes, too ... Halloween Was Coming!
In the first week of October my food magazines were delivered with Thanksgiving Ideas and Recipes. I'm tired of Pumpkin anything and Thanksgiving isn't for another two weeks.
The first weekend of November and some of the neighbors were already trying to outdo each others ... you guessed it ... Christmas Decorations.
The Christmas songs would make me pull my hair out were I in your shoes. Whenever I visit PetSmart, I cannot grab the food for my kitties and scram fast enough. Their idea of good musical choices are so much worse with the cracking speakers issuing dissonant sounds from being turned up to the top volume.
Oh, How I feel for you. I thank you for making me laugh all the way through this commentary. Cheers!