Christmas vs. Holiday Wars

It’s here again this year. I was at this little mom & pop sandwich place for lunch today and one of the servers wished, “Happy Holidays” as a customer was leaving. Her boss, the owner said to her, “It’s Merry Christmas here. Even Wal-Mart is saying Christmas now.”

I’ll start with the first offensive sentence… First, it’s not even Thanksgiving yet, so really if you wanted your server to specify a holiday it should be Happy Thanksgiving. Christmas is next month. Second of all some magic time after Halloween, it becomes the Holiday Season. November, December and January all have major holidays celebrated by the majority of people in this country, so instead of listing them all we use the word holiday and group them all together to make it easy to yell out as someone is walking away.

As for the second evil sentence… Does Wal-Mart really create the standard to which all other businesses operate? I hope not, with the treatment given to their workers and crappy non-union pay even for the grocery department. Granted unions are not perfect but Wal-Mart embodies all the reasons that caused unions to form.