The holiday season has arrived and the hustle and bustle is in the air. I have to say to date I have been pleasantly surprised by the overwhelming cheer that I have seen and heard so far.
From customers to sales associates the act of kindness, generosity and the offering of happy holidays has been astounding.
I love this time of year, not just because it is the time of giving and receiving, but because it separates the sales associates from the good and bad, from the ones that really want to work in retail to those who can not handle it.
This is a time that tries the patience of the most skilled. If as a customer you think you have it bad when you go to buy something and it's not there, imagine what the sales associates feel like when they know they actually never had it and now have to lie to you to tell you they sold out, or that the truck didn't deliver it, or better yet, that it should be in in the next shipment. And we all know what that means.
This year stores promised to cut inventory but yet have the product at the price that you want to pay for it when you want it. It's just like a miracle, but not on 34th Street.
Speaking of, once again macy's offers generosity in the form of donating 1 dollar to every dear Santa letter that they receive to Make A Wish Foundation.
Last year I collected (thanks to my students and piers over 1600 letters)
I think that because the post office has discontinued that service that macy's should up the anti to $1.41 , the cost of mailing a Dear Santa letter.
What do we now tell the little kids, that Santa is only taking e mails, or perhaps facebook or Twitter can have a virtual Santa, OOH, what a good idea. If I were tech savy I would create one.
This year my goal is 3000 letters to Santa, anyway I can get macy's to pay, for that sales associate throwing the shoe at me last year, I'm all for it.
Plus the feeling of getting my students involved in such a good endeavor is priceless. Sometimes they forget how to be a kid again, And this is the time to be a kid again, laugh, enjoy, and remember when,
Remember when:
6 shooters were something you could actually get at Christmas,
Tinsel on trees wasn't dangerous to the environment
Eggnog, only came in one flavor
Happy Holidays until the next post!
