Tuesday, December 19, 2006

People Suck, part... infinity

My pal, the Halloween Candy Nazi*, received an anonymous letter today in the mail**.

The letter attacked her copious use of holiday decorations***. The letter insinuated that she had too much time and money and that she was basically a selfish asshole to not be spending her time and money by saving the world.

Her decorations, while plentiful, are extremely tasteful and well done. And she polices them like a maniac, she's got a sixth sense that alerts her whenever a bulb has burned out or an icicle has become tangled by the wind.

She decorates for every holiday. Holidays mean the world to her and for this grinch-y asshat to try to take that away from her... well, it's just mean. Why would some rude fuckwad feel the need to shit all over her holiday cheer? Her decorations aren't consuming fossil fuels or harming undernourished kids in Guatemala.

The anonymous jackass identified him(or her)self as one of her neighbors. She lives in a really nice area, so if they, do indeed live in that neighborhood, they're obviously not hurting for cash... and if they've got time to type up a Scrooge-y letter like that, stick it in an envelope and mail it, it sounds like they haven't devoted themselves to charity 24/7.

So... what the fuck? You know, I'm not a decorate-y type of girl, but if my friend wants to go all out to celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior, Santa Clause, who the fuck cares? If you don't like the holidays because you never got that pony you wanted, or because your grandmother did, in fact, get run over by a reindeer, or for whatever reason, stay the hell in your house and leave everyone else alone. Jerk.



*If you're desperate to find out what the nickname is about, head back to the November archives, I'm sure I wrote about her a couple of times

** 1. Who sends letters anymore? and 2. Who sends anonymous letters?

*** yes, she goes a bit overboard on the holiday stuff, but it's very tasteful and well done