Why I don't like Christmas

I can't say I'm a big fan of Christmas

Here are my reasons why I don't care for Christmas

1. I worked Retail!

Working in retail Full-Time for 5 years and Part-Time for 3, made me really hate the holiday!

People are 10x nastier, messier, rude and ridiculous during the Holidays. What is supposed to be such a "Wonderful time of the year", becomes such a "Nightmare time of the year". People love to show how awful they are to Customer Service Employees, especially during the holidays.

I was rarely ever cursed out during the normal season, but around the holidays, I was never shy of being cursed out just for telling people the carts didn't go outside, or called stupid just because I asked the lady if she still wanted the item, even though it was a bit different in size. (Usually people buy the item because they like it so much, even if it's a little bigger.)

 

For my retail escapades, check out my Retail Stories tag. 

https://hotspotsportal.blogspot.com/search/label/Retail%20Stories

2. My birthday is near Christmas - This means that when I ask people to go out with me for my birthday, they can't make it because....

A. Their family is in town and they can't hang out.

B. They work retail and are working.

C. They're broke because they spent money for Christmas presents and don't have money left to do anything. 

 

It's safe to say I don't usually get to hang out with friends for my birthday! Which makes it such a drag!

3. It's all about the presents

• Christmas, like many holidays, is supposed to be about Family. But people seem to like it just because of the presents, which seems rather greedy and superficial.  

• Look at how crazy people get just because they want a gift for their dearly beloved and how people have LITERALLY DIED trying to shop on Black Friday.

At-least with Halloween, it's just about having fun and dressing up! etc..

 

4. It Over-Shadows other holidays

• It drives me nuts when people gloat about how "amazing" Christmas is and how they start playing Christmas themed music in August. They get so into Christmas, that they don't care about other Holidays like Halloween (Clearly, the best Holiday of all time!) Obviously it's fine to like a holiday, but talking about it so often just comes off weird and annoying. Like I don't want to think about Christmas, or cold weather, when I'm enjoying a nice warm day in August.

5. It makes me feel bad about Thanksgiving! 

• Thanksgiving gets the short end of the stick! Once Halloween is over, it's all of a sudden, Christmas season, which is super rude.

6. I'm just over it

• You know when you've watched a TV show for the 80th time, or you have 1000 hours in a Video Game and you're just bored of it? That's how I feel about Christmas. I'm just over it, I've done it 31 years and I'm good, like give me something new and different!

 

Why Patriotism is weird

Let's get this out of the way,

A country is just a place you live in, like that's all it really is...

I don't get why people are super patriotic. It's like if you found an island and started praying that you love this island so much and everyone that has a problem with your island is an enemy, it's just a weird mindset to get into!

It's just a bunch of land, like that's all it is!

I also don't get people who can like a country, but have so many issues with it's laws.  It's rather counterproductive, like if you have a problem with laws, then you can't love the country!

My take 

People who are very patriotic (or religious for that matter) to the point that the only conversation they can hold is about their country (& or Religion), are boring and have no personality. (That's on periodt.) I've met and worked with plenty of people like this and they were so boring! (And rude for that matter) They had nothing interesting to talk about and were very nasty and hateful in general. No one liked them because they were such an awful person.

Also

America in particular, should not have "In God We Trust", or having god in the pledge of allegiance, since the country was literally founded on "Freedom of Religion", which many Americans have seem to forgotten! 

Quick Note: Maybe it's just me, but the Pledge of Allegiance kind of comes off a bit cult-y to me.

I'd personally love to move out of America, but because I don't have any money (Because of how America is with the rich getting richer), I can't. Not to mention, I'd preferably like to move somewhere warm, that is also Gay friendly. Unfortunately, I don't know if there is a place like that outside of California. 

Is it racist to be Patriotic?

Well no, that's just silly. The reason why so many people associate being Patriotic with Racism, is because many EXTREMELY Patriotic people are racist and that's where the association comes from. Like if so many patriotic people weren't racist, then the connotation Patriotic people being Racist, wouldn't exist. 

Anyways..

From my experience, there seems to be a very specific mindset for people who just LOVE their country soooo much! (Rude and has no personality.)

Don't get me wrong, you can love your country as much as you want, I'm not saying you can't. But when it's all you can talk about, and you make it your ENTIRE personality, that's when it gets weird and concerning.

Well that happened...

Now that I think of it, I remember a time when I was in Middle School. A Hall Monitor told me I needed to sit down once I get to class and when I got there, the Pledge of Allegiance came on and I still sat there. I have a habit of doing what people tell me to do, (which gets me into bad situations like being sexually harassed by the bus driver.) When all of a sudden, my teacher started yelling at me that I needed to stand up for the pledge of allegiance. (Like literally by law, you don't have to do the Pledge if you don't want to.) But in this case it was because I was told to sit down, otherwise I would have done it because that's just what I was told to do.  

Check out this article I found on the subject, they made some really interesting points as well. 

Why Instilling Patriotism is Ludicrous 

Wild Office Stories: This is what we found on the floor!

I may have gotten out of retail, but that doesn't mean I don't deal with nutty people! 

Here are some stories of bizarre individuals I've found myself meeting while in an office setting.

What are those... exactly?

One time this lady came into the office, looking like a ragamuffin with her torn up clothes. She dropped a square package on the floor, which I thought was a small pack of tissues. The girls were laughing about it and thought it was so funny, I'm just like, what's so funny about tissues??

My gay ass didn't know they were tampons!  

When the lady realized she dropped them, she went "Oh shit!".

 Like just draw more attention to yourself why don't you... 

The girls thought it was funny I didn't know what they were lol...

 

I want to speak to the CEO of the company!!!

We get a message from this dude on Facebook, I thought he wanted to use our services. We tell him to call the office and my co-worker was on the phone with him and tells me that this guy sounds crazy! He was very rude to her.

He went on to say that he is so disappointed that the CEO of a company would go and "Defame" him and he was upset that he couldn't talk to the CEO directly.

So it turns out, this guy was mad because we liked a Facebook Page that was telling people to not do business with him and his company. After some research, I found out that this was my fault. People will invite you to like pages on Facebook and I have a tendency to automatically like these pages without reading what it is. You could call me a serial liker! So I liked "Don't do business with This guy", without even realizing I did that. lol

We explained that we liked the page in error and un-liked it, he actually responded with thank you.

But the fact that this guy was rude to us and looked up everyone who liked this page and messaged them, just kinda shows what kind of nutjob he really is. If it was me, I'd be asking people what I could do to help them change their mind about my service, not attack them and do some crazy FBI investigation, messaging everyone why you would like this page, sending them bizarre messages about it!

Random person right off the street

Some man came in, he was wearing tattered clothes and he wasn't really easy to understand. He wanted to take a bus, but wasn't really making sense about it. One of the guys ended up giving him an extra pair of socks.

One of my coworkers said the owner should give him a job! lol  

Can you believe this? A Homophobe right under my nose!

In 2014, I posted on Facebook, why being Gay is NOT a choice. I referenced my blog post that I made, which you can find >Here<

Short Version:

A so called friend I met from my Formspring days had decided to argue with me that being gay was a choice, despite me telling him that it's not a choice and that I never chose to be gay and how no one in their right mind would choose something that is widely hated and discriminated against.

"My friend Van: Why would anyone want to be gay though? You live a harder life because of it!"

The Formspring friend provided sources that he praised, even though they were not factual and just opinions made by the source.

If you're curious to see the Conversation, I copied and pasted it from when it happened. (It's been hibernating in this blog for so many years!)

Long Version:

Before we get into this pile of trash 

 Let me tell you my two cents

What I think is weird is, if you think being gay is a choice, then you think everyone chose to be gay. With that logic, It's like if someone hates Salami, but you don't believe it's possible to hate Salami and you tell Salami haters that they do like Salami and are just choosing not to eat it because they're "Rebellious" and want to be "Quirky", or some other asinine reason.

That's a very similar take, like the person doesn't like Salami and you're telling them that they're lying to themselves about how they feel about something, when obviously you aren't them so you wouldn't understand their dislike for Salami!

Like people get so annoyed that they can't relate with someone on something, that they have to hate them for it, or just flat out say it doesn't exist when it does!

People saying being gay is a choice is like saying that person is lying to themselves, when they know damn well better about themselves than you do. No one is going to lie about being gay (except for those rude people who do it for clout, those people should be ignored.)

It's so weird that people try to force their ideology on others, like who are you to tell me on how I should or should not feel?! 

Why you be playing with my emotions?!

The only lie I lived was thinking I was straight, which is a byproduct of only seeing straight people in Tv shows and Video Games, I didn't even know you could be LGBT because the straight agenda has been shoved down our throats our entire lives. (Yeah I said it! There's no gay agenda, but there's a straight one since they didn't want you to think LGBT people existed!)

Here is the blog post on why, being gay is not a choice.

The Facebook Convo

For Privacy, we'll call them Fish-Paste, but in a previous blog post about Ex-Formspring friends, I called them Danger Noodle.


For Authentic purposes, I will NOT be changing the wording of my posts (Although I want to because I went through an ellipses phase that I don't want to talk about. But I will fix Capitalization and punctuation for my friends post.)

I had posted the "why being gay is not a choice" blog post on my Facebook and they responded with...

 
Fish-Paste:
So I take it you totally ignored the recent findings by renowned institutions? http://www.onenewsnow.com/perspectives/bryan-fischer/2014/06/17/the-latest-in-scientific-research-there-is-no-gay-gene

Me: I've never even seen that before, but I call BS on it.. I am not a fan of religious/republican sites... but that one seems fishy. If someone doesn't agree with it, I am sure they could make up a story like that.

If it was from a scientific type of site, then I would believe it .. or at-least acknowledge it more. But the fact that is a republican/religious site, I don't believe it at all.

I know that being gay is not a choice personally, since I did not choose to be gay.

Fish-Paste:
So you are telling me that you don't have the free will to choose NOT to be gay?

(Editors Comment: I'm wondering if they're saying that you "choose" who to be with, but you can't "choose" who you're attracted to, if that makes sense. Because I've seen that argument before and it's like totally not the point. People always have to point out the gray areas..)

Me:
Okay, so I skimmed the article you posted before, but this time I actually read it.. and it's actually not any sort of research, all they did was pick out what they thought was odd from another article online.. there was no actual scientific research on their part at all... just opinions and conclusions they came up with. You really can't base anything off of that.

I hope you're being sarcastic, but I can't completely tell as I have a clueless personality. lol
But, if you're are being 100% serious, I will ask you if you actually read my blog post.. because I explained everything there.
I cannot get a hard on for a woman, it is not possible.. I did not want to be gay at first.. I would have chosen to be straight if it was possible, but it's not.
I have no attraction towards women, just like how a straight person can't be attracted to someone of the same gender.. it's not possible.

Fish-Paste:
I did read your blog post all the way through (in case you thought *I* skimmed as well).

Me:
But were you being sarcastic? Like do you honestly think being gay is a choice? Or were you playing around?


Fish-Paste:
I honestly think it's a choice.

Don't believe me? Just look at the lifestyle choices of David Bowie from the 70's through today and TRY to tell me it's not a personal choice.

(Editors Comment: They seem to be confusing Personal tastes in Fashion with being gay, which is not the same thing. Also, clothes don't have genders, let people wear what they want! Men used to wear high-heels and dresses back in the day, but somewhere along the line it changed into a "womens only" kind of thing.)

Me:
Well, I KNOW It is not a choice. I guess we all have our opinions, even if we don't agree with them. But, I don't see why anyone would choose to allow themselves to be hated by thousands of people, beaten and tortured.
I know I didn't. It's just not physically possible to choose who to be attracted to.
I know I can't change your mind, we all have our opinions.. fact or not.

David Bowie sounds like he has/had a hormone imbalance, he just didn't know what he was into and unlike most, he didn't know until he was older.. Either that or he is bisexual if anything, but mainly heterosexual with slight bisexual tendencies. It's not just black and white, it's a whole spectrum. Someone could be bi and only be attracted to one person of one gender and attracted plenty of people of another gender.

Refer to the Kinsey Scale.

Kinsey scale - Wikipedia

 
But, you cannot make an opinion on just one person. Some people are just different like that, but most people know what they like, whether it is straight, gay, bi, pansexual... etc..

Then I had linked my friend Victor... he was recently talking to me about how the guy didn't listen to him either.

Victor:
Correction being gay is neither a choice or a genetic disorder. It is in fact a physical or mental attraction to the same sex. While it is true that most homosexuals have certain traits
very small and very exact, however the human body will respond to almost all types of stimuli if touched erotically especially in certain erogenous areas of the body (read up on certain sexual abuse situation and how others try expound on the victims arousal) however it is the mind that tells us off attraction and since you both are fond of science than you both should know that attraction is caused by pheromones we put out and how others respond to these pheromones. So a homosexual is really just responding to these pheromones that males produce instead of a females, also one cannot count religion in any argument via that there are other religions and in ancient times homosexuality was more common than weather shifts, But I Digress. While there are heterosexuals that have at times chose live the heterosexual lifestyle that does not include the entire gay population, For instance a female that will engage in homoerotic contact with another female for her significant others viewing pleasure or for another males attention or even male and female actors in the adult industry that perform homosexual sex as part of there job. So in essence both of you are right and wrong. Not to mention I don't see the big deal, I have sex men and women and even partake in orgies. As far as I'm concerned its not really topic worthy. However also the whole gay gene inst what people mean by born gay but if you want to say there might be, than bring up the fact that most homosexuals have certain physical features that seem to match and coincide with other homosexuals, and no not that horrible lisp dear god, but certain eye-shape, body type both tiny and big, its no exact but pretty close.

So remember attraction is caused by pheromones and how we respond, things like homosexuality and heterosexuality is actually all about your nature vs nurture, because before we did gender-base and sexualize most societies were very sexually open. Well except when it came to children that was non negotiable as I understand. The old native Americans called it two-soul, a person born with the soul or spirit of a man and woman in one body when it came to homosexuality. When it changed I have no idea.

Hope that helps your argument because friends shouldn't fight

Fish-Paste did like the comment, as well as a few of my comments, which was weird and made it harder to figure out if this was all some horrendous joke.

 

The Verdict:
I decided that I didn't need this ignorant jerk on my Facebook. He also annoyed me with other things by commenting on my Facebook, with rude remarks.

One time I posted a video of the anime Excel Saga and in the clip the main character Excel appears in America and doesn't know what she is saying in English and doesn't know where or what she is doing. By doing this, she angers the residents.
Fish-Paste commented "If that happened to me I would get my gun and start shooting!". Like UGH why.
Because that's appropriate....He was such a buzzkill by making Light-Hearted things so negative and violent for absolutely no reason!

Although I blocked them, I went on their profile 7 years later on my work Facebook. They're VERY Conservative, so that explains everything and I'm glad I blocked them. Don't need such ignorance in my life. 

One fact I learned at every job I've had

I've worked in quite a few jobs in the last 8 years, and I've learned some interesting things!

This will be updated for every job I have etc..

1. Mail Room - Automatic Staplers exist. (I wasn't aware of this until I worked this job.)

2. Social Services  - There are Not For Profit organizations that help the unemployed that are on Government assistance to get jobs! (I was the one who looked up jobs online and sent job ads to the clients)
(This is a United States only fact, I don't know if other countries do this.)

3. Retail -Different colored items in a store might be a different price because some colors sell more than others, so they discount the ones that aren't selling as well so they can sell the product.

So if the Red Dress is 19.99 and the Green Dress is 16.99, it's because the Green Dress isn't selling as well.

4. Private Investigation Industry - In United States, any vehicle with a license plate that has two letters at the end of the license plate number is a Commercial Vehicle. Example: 1234-AB.

5. Trucking Industry - United States of America, Canada and Europe, have road regulations that trucking companies have to follow to make sure the roads are safe and to prevent accidents! These companies also have to pay extra taxes, to ensure their vehicles are safe enough to be on the road.

 6. Eco-Friendly Industry -Eco-Friendly disposable products can be made out of materials such as Bamboo, and Palm Leaves.

7. Restoration Services Industry - When someone's house is damaged, they have to create a blueprint of the house, including how measurements of the house and mark what has been damaged. A program will calculate how much it will cost to fix everything.

What is a fact that you learned at your job?

Retail Stories: They did WHAT!?

Shop till you Drop!

I once saw a woman with a cart filled with merchandise and she walked away from the cart to look at a dress and walked right out the door, leaving the cart filled with crap just sitting there. It was so annoying, like why even bother shopping if you weren’t going to get anything?!

Karma, in Action!

When I worked retail, I had a supervisor who didn’t take crap from anyone and made people buy an item if they broke it intentionally.

One time this lady had her kids running around this expensive globe item that was like 50-80 dollars and the supervisor told the lady that her kids can’t be running around the store and if they break that globe, they have to buy it.

Well. Guess what happened? The kids broke the globe the customer paid for it!

One of the only good Karma stories I have. 

 

Facebook Recoil

This guy I used to work with knew this girl, who he didn't really like being friends with. I didn't know her, nor do I have her on facebook, But she angry smiled 30 of my public posts for no reason, and then when I went onto her facebook and did the same, she messaged me and said "fight me lil puss", then blocked me. lmao what...

He told me that she was bored.

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