Negative Nancy!

[thez]

My internal organs have been put in their place, and the four day headache from hell is no more.

Positive!

The store has been decked out in preparation for my most hated of all holidays, and I have been made to look like an elf in my red shirt and green apron.

Negative!

Management starts playing Christmas music next week. I can't handle that yet. I still haven't gotten over LAST year's overexposure. Worse yet: one of the feature songs is "Baby It's Cold Outside".

No, it's not. It is not cold outside, by any stretch of the imagination. IT IS 90 DEGREES OUTSIDE. WHY MUST YOU TURN MY COFFEE SHOP INTO A VILE PIT OF LIES??? STOP SINGING ABOUT COLD AND SNOW FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.

Did I mention they haven't actually started playing the Christmas music yet?

NEGATIVE.

Fun fact: our music system had some sort of glitch back in August, such that it would randomly insert that song into the playlist from time to time. As violent as my rage is now, it's nothing compared to the white-hot madness that comes from listening to "Baby It's Cold Outside" five times a day in August. In Phoenix. Where the temperature outside is no less than 115 degrees Fahrenheit.

To say that I hate that song would be an understatement.

The line is approaching the x-axis, never quite reaching zero, growing infinitely closer and staying infinitely negative.

("What's your least favorite emotion?" "Itchy." "Itchy...")

Comments

[kayli-kender.livejournal.com]

You know, I wouldn't mind Christmas music so much if it wasn't played ALL THE FREAKING TIME. My jew-boy stepbrother used to play it on the piano in JULY.

I like some Christmas songs - the really old traditional ones mostly - but a lot of the 50s and 60s upbeat jingles have started to seriously annoy me as I get older. Especially when they start it BEFORE THANKSGIVING even.

And show those organs who's boss! Don't let them give you any shit!

[thez.livejournal.com]

Despite the fact that I am absolutely in no way Christian, I also actually like the more traditional Christmas music. "Got Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen", "What Child Is This?" and so on, it's all really quite lovely. Unfortunately, these almost never get played because the newer songs are more PC.

And you're right, it's the fact that it's played ALL THE TIME that really gets me. All the time at WORK no less. That has got to be feeding some subconscious hate in my mind.


Only my large intestines are allowed to give me shit.

[rotsman.livejournal.com]

I have a different reason not to like "Baby It's Cold Outside."

...I don't think it's a very good song. ^_~

[thez.livejournal.com]

That's as good a reason as any.

(P.S. The last time you called, when it rang 15 times? My phone shows no record of your incoming call, so I must surmise that this was an incident of my phone totally crapping out on me.)

[rotsman.livejournal.com]

Oh...I thought maybe you'd set it to ring a lot to confound telemarketers or something. It also might be due to my new phone number. ^_^

[sakibombshell.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's just the repetition of that song and a few others that you dislike, but personally, I hate most of the "holiday" music that is played nonstop on every station in late December. And then Auld Lang Syne right before New Years. If I was you I'd be pretty nuts from the music. For the office Christmas social, I'm taking us to a shish kabob joint owned by muslims. Hahahahaha.