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Ho!
Ho! Ho! Hokey Mokey the Stores are jammed
It has been a few years since I had to go out
and mingle with Christmas Shoppers in the days before Christmas. Yesterday I went out with a few errands to
accomplish in the morning.
One errand was to arrive at Costco and do my
bit there. I assumed that it opened at
10:00 AM like normal. Nope! That was not
the case. When I arrived at 9:48 AM there were hardly any parking spaces to fit
into – the entire lot was FULL! Well the store was even fuller. Instead of one
or maybe two people per vehicle there were three or four or more. Remember it was Saturday and kids are off
school.
I have never seen so many people in a
Canadian store. Rather it was like Hong
Kong during Chinese New Year with a gazillion people everywhere all pushing and
shoving to get done before the big day that was coming.
For the fun of it after I was done I
meandered over to two more stores, Future Shop and Staples – just to look… then
later to Michael’s craft shop to buy some small items.
These stores were plugged full as well.
China and India have no idea what they do to
our country’s buying making all that stuff. Making it relatively cheap and having the
price so good they are able to conquer our world and own us!
That’s right you heard me China and India are
somehow involved in this mad rush of shopping and buying and wrapping and us
all going into debt up over our ear lobes!
Surely it can’t be the fault of the sane and
normally happy Canadians. They seemed to be trapped inside a bubble of “Spend
Crazy”.
One side example for me was the deep apologies
from a staff person in one of the stores when he said, “I am really sorry but
we don’t have any stock left. Our
shelves are almost all empty now. It is Christmas after all and this is always
the way it is.”
When I told him I wasn’t ready to buy but
rather just needed information about the different kinds of equipment – he said
oddly, “Thank goodness for that. I thought you were going to be like all the
rest – demanding and angry.”
How odd can it all get?
Christmas is all about what happened when God
sent his son wrapped up as a beautiful, cuddly baby. BUT look what has happened. Yesterday few people were thinking about that
little baby of so long ago and what God was thinking about when he sent him our
way.
I dangerously wanted to stand up in the busy
stores and shout out – “DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT THIS HOLIDAY IS ALL ABOUT!?”
But I didn’t. I spent a little money and ducked out the doors
with my bag between the other shoppers pushing to get in!
So to all my MAN FRIENDS that shop between
now and the 24th at night – you are in real trouble – the store
shelves are real empty now and you will need to head to Jewelry stores where
you can buy the best “guilt gifts”.
Good luck guys! And have a Merry Christmas, a safe holiday, a
push back from the table sooner holiday, and a wonderful last of the year celebration!
~ Murray Lincoln ~
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