feeling Grinchy
Have you ever had a Jewish Christmas? Seems like it would be great, right? How bad could it be to get a day off work?
Well, let’s start the day by calling a friend to come join us for breakfast or something. rrrrrring. rrrrring. [brief conversation with friend]. Hmmm. Slight setback for our wonderful day off. It seems our friend is spending the day with family. Never fear! We’ll just try another friend. rrrrring. rrrring. [brief conversation with other friend]. Dang. Same story. [repeat until frustrated]. Bah, who needs those pesky Christmas celebrating friends. New idea. We’ll turn on the TV and see what’s doing. Hmmm…christmas special [change channel] …christmas special [repeat until frustrated]. Arrgh. The TV is filled with non-stop christmas specials. Gotta get out of the house. [drive by lots of closed stores in every part of town]. What the!? Everything is CLOSED. ARRRRGH.
It hasn’t happend again this year yet, but the clock is ticking. Tick…tock…tick…tock…
December 22nd, 2005 at 3:05 pm
This sounds much better than hanging out with my family.
December 22nd, 2005 at 8:26 pm
You should come with me to the Valley (LA) tomorrow. Nothing is closed. Everyone is Jewish. In fact, if ONE MORE person asks me what I’m doing Saturday night… Grr.
December 23rd, 2005 at 3:44 pm
I’m bailing out and heading to NYC. Between being the city that never sleeps and having a large population of fellow Jews, I think I might be OK…as long as I don’t freeze my ass off.