Can the Holidays please be done now?

[marginlized]

9. Myrina, I sympathize.

Luckily, I'm semi retired so I don't have the office politics to deal with. But when I could, I would always opt out of the gift exchanges. I never understood that behavior. Some office holiday stuff is especially obnoxious. Like choice of holiday music to play in the office. Some people just don't think. They bring in a cheap child's turntable and insist on playing 45s of 1950's country/western christmas 'hits' (this happened back in the 80's). My REVENGE was to go discount dumpster diving for every bad Christmas cassette tape I could find, watch their reactions to the tapes when I brought them in and insist on playing the one they all hated. Elvis' Christmas album won. And they got the message. Soon, it was nothing but the most classical music always at a low volume.

Well, now it's Xmas Eve, and I've had enough. There's a dinner tonight with just close friends, but a bigger party tomorrow will probably get skipped. I'm holidayed out.