Christmas Shopping....on acid....

Wow...I am so sad that the weekend is over. How I wish that I had a second Sunday.

I spent this weekend Christmas shopping, and maybe it's just me, but I thought people were supposed to embrace the spirit of Christmas. Maybe I have seen too many Christmas movies where everyone is polite and happy. I guess we don't live in a society where that happens.

No, Black Friday rolls around and everyone turns into these little monsters with out of control attitudes and shopping carts!

I am somebody who tries not to let the stress of the season get to me, and I start out each Christmas shopping spree with a good attitude and a warm smile...but let me tell you, that lasts about 2.3 seconds in the first store.
Take Saturday for instance. Jeremy and I went to the Christmas mouse in Williamsburg so that I could get an ornament for my friend. I spent most of the time in line waiting to check out, but the people were friendly and we were chatting, and it was fine.
Apparently, I made my mistake when I suggested we go to some of the stores around the mall. We started out trying to get to Toys R'us. There was a parking space and I pointed it out to Jeremy, who headed in that direction. Apparently, there was a woman in a HUGE truck pulling up to the space at the same time. Technically, we decided, she was there first, and passed on the parking space. Not only did she make the ugliest face I have ever seen, but she proceeded to flip us off. We didnt do anything! Jeremy didnt even attempt to take the space! So, he finds us a parking spot way far out in the nether regions of the parking lot, and we walk to Toys R'us. She was still trying to park that HUGE truck in the space! I have to say that it did give me trite satisfaction to see her struggling to park it. Maybe that will teach her to be a winch. That already moved my mood down a notch.
Next, after we got out of the toy hell, we went over to Bed, Bath and Beyond. We got our things and proceeded to get in line. There were two registers, with two cashiers, and what I assumed was two lines. In the real world, thats how it works. I am standing in line, holding two boxes of breakable things when WHAM! This old lady slams her cart into my pregnant belly. I looked at her, I know, with the look of death on my face. She says "Oh, excuse me. We were all in one line and branching off as a register became available." WE??? Who the hell is we?? There was only HER in a line..so unless she has a mouse in her pocket or multiple personalities she is ONE as in singular. Not TWO as in plural. So, I just stared at her, feeling my blood pressure rise when I said very loudly to Jeremy..."Apparently, we are cutting in line in the world of Candy-freaking-land, and this ol' bitty just slammed her cart into MY PREGNANT BELLY." I was livid. And at that point, it wasnt worth upsetting myself (its not good for the baby, I hear my mother say) and move to the next line, but not before Jeremy says "Well, I am going to need her address and name so that if she harmed our baby, I can sue her for damages."
I think we really did scare her, or at the very least made her uncomfortable.
Number one, I dont give a damn who you are, or what you think someone is doing. You do not, I repeat, you DO NOT slam your cart into ANYONE for ANY reason. Just because she couldnt look at me and tell underneath my zipped coat I was pregnant, doesnt mean she should ram her cart into me. Secondly, she ruined my Christmas mood. The ol' hosebag.
As we moved to the next line, Jeremy kept saying "we shouldnt have moved, we shouldnt have moved." Well, yes we should have, or I was going to jail! I have never been so angry and outraged in all of my Christmas shopping experiences as I was over that. She basically, ran my unborn child over with a metal freaking cart, and technically, she didnt even apologise. Excuse me???? Thats right, EXCUSE YOU is right. She needs to brush up on her Miss Manners column, let me tell you.

Other than that, things seem okay. I am excited about Wednesday....and at this point, its 20 days until Christmas!