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Here is something that drives me nuts at this time of the year.

I don’t care WHAT you are buying, Christmas is becoming my least favorite time of the year. I do not venture out on Black Friday. I far prefer to get my shopping done before Halloween. As the news comes on, it only reaffirms my beliefs. People need to look at themselves and explain their behavior. I’m watching Boston television and watching a fist fight break out because one older man waiting in line had another item that some younger guy wanted. This is just unbelievable. This is not what Christmas should be about. NO ITEM is worth that. If your child really wants an item, explain to them that sometimes we have to wait.

People getting shot while waiting for Wii’s. People fighting over expensive gaming systems. It’s all so wrong.

My own experience… I went to Christmas Tree Shops three weeks ago to get some items for stocking stuffers and had my 10 year old with me. This kid is obviously too big for a cart, yet she had three people (an elderly woman and then two women I would have placed in there mid-30s) hit her with carts. She wasn’t in the way. She had hold of my cart due to the crowds. Another woman told my thirteen year old to keep walking because he was not moving as quickly as she wanted to move. I don’t have the patience for people like this, so I confronted her and told her that he couldn’t keep walking because he had been told to stay with me. Her response, “Oh, I didn’t realize he had a parent with him. I figured he was another local kid wasting time in store because he had nothing better to do.” Again, I’m shocked and really sad at the state of the shopping world at this time of the year.

I also remember last year in Walmart - watching an older man get pushed in line so hard that he fell and broke his arm. It was a young college aged woman who pushed him because she was in a hurry to get outside to get better cell phone service. She never even stopped to see if he was okay. My husband wound up taking a bruise to his calf because that is where the man’s head hit, but as he told the man, he was happy to take the bruise knowing that at least the man hadn’t smashed his head open on the concrete floor. The fact that this man broke his arm, however, still appalls me.

If shopping is so stressful that you have to take out your angst on kids or other adults - save your shopping for the weeknights when stores are quieter. Or, don’t go out at all. Stay home and get onto your computer. How can these people expect polite kids and fellow shoppers when they don’t demonstrate it themselves?

Here is my wish for Christmas - how about if everyone who goes out treats everyone with respect and then asks them to pass it on. Dignified adults shopping at Christmas without the fighting,