Why I'm such a Humbug

I don’t like Christmas!

Most people who know me realize this. I’m always getting asked if I had some childhood trauma at this time of year that I don’t want to remember. But that’s not it. Christmas was always filled with family, joy and happiness. I just don’t like it! Catherine came up with a pretty good theory.

Christmas makes people happy
Rob doesn’t like being happy
Therefore, Rob doesn’t like Christmas

That’s the closest reason that I have ever heard for my Yule Tide Scrooginess. But that still isn’t it. Its not that I don’t like to be happy, or that I don’t want others to be happy. Happiness is something that is not natural during the holidays, for anybody. You have to fight crowds, deal with pushy people at the store. The traffic is terrible, and in the UP the snow has just recently come down, so people aren’t used to driving in that yet. You end up spending lots of money on things you can only hope the recipients will like and/or appreciate. If you are lucky enough to have guest for the holidays, you have to spend countless hours cleaning the house. There are the cookies to bake, and if you didn’t know it Cat and I don’t really cook well together. We both have our ideas of how things should be done, and they’re not the same ideas (this reasoning goes for house cleaning too). You just know you’re going to gain 10 pounds, even if you don’t eat a thing. Of course there is the incessant music. I don’t have a problem with Christmas songs, but when you think about it, there are only like 10 or 20 of them sung a million different ways. It grates on you after a while. I am also not one to like surprises. So wrapped gifts under the tree get to me. Just open the damn things already (or don’t put them out until Christmas Eve).

So the way I figure it, I’m living the holidays the way everybody would if they didn’t feel they had to put on a brave face. 99% of us have a Scrooge being repressed out of fear that people will think badly of us. I don’t care what people think so…….

BAH HUMBUG

By the way, I don’t really hate Christmas.
I love it, I just despise the commercialism and the stress that comes with it.
Plus I love to bitch about things!

Merry Christmas