I’m white. I have blue eyes. And when I was young, my hair was red. I was working retail, and this old lady said “Merry Christmas.”
Me: “Happy Holidays!”
Her: “It’s Merry Christmas. I know your boss doesn’t like it, but you should say it to me. So Merry Christmas.”
Me: “Are you Christian?”
Her: “Yes.”
Me: “Well, I’m not. So Happy Holidays.”
She got so stunned, like I’d slapped her. I was quite ready to get called in for being some kind of way with a customer but I guess she was too afraid of dealing with a heathen. Still, if you’ve ever worked retail, you’d know why this felt like a victory.
Hopefully you’re young enough that you didn’t have to deal with the christmas cd on repeat
I worked in a video arcade in the 90s and we had a 1-hour VHS tape on repeat showing on TVs all over the arcade featuring recent music videos, cartoons, etc. That Christmas, ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ came out and it was on that tape. I heard that song every day of December, 8 times a day, 40 times a week, 160 times that month in total.
I hate that song so much more than everyone else does.
I currently work in retail and OH MY GODS I FELT THE
T R I U M P H
THROUGH MY PHONE.
Still, if you’ve ever worked retail, you’d know why this felt like a victory.
No idea mate, worked in retail for decades and no idea what you’re on about. But then I never lived in a country full of mentally ill people 😂
Yeah, I don’t think “mentally ill people” only exist in specific places or that specific areas are “full” of them. I mean, I know for sure at least one deranged person lives in your area.
Also I highly doubt you truly worked in retail if you never experienced a customer like this. If you did, you must have been lucky and in an extremely high end store.
People are the same everywhere in the world, no better or worse than anywhere else. Which is kinda great IMO.
People that say this are so silly.
You’re not being oppressed. It’s just that saying merry Christmas to a crowd of diverse backgrounds is like wishing your mum a happy fathers day. She won’t be mad or offended, she’ll just think she should have breastfed you.
Yeah, I say Happy Holidays to someone I know who obviously doesn’t celebrate Christmas.
Also, it is weird for conservative Americans to be offended not greeting “Happy Christmas”, when the migrant ancestors of modern Americans did not celebrate it as a holiday until more recently. Protestants thought celebrating Christmas is a Catholic abomination. Look how tables have turned and acting hypocritical as always…
Most “traditions”, including holiday traditions, food culture, etc, are incredibly recent things. But people cling to it like they are the totality of their identify.
Or telling someone “happy birthday “ when they’re in a group of people who aren’t having birthdays themselves. Only a three year old would get upset that they’re not included.
Maybe it’s different in the US and other cultures, but as an atheist I’ve never seen the phrase as a very religious thing. I say “merry Christmas” and “happy holidays” indistinctly and I’ve never seen anyone offended by the use of either, independtly of their faith (or lack thereof).
I say “merry Christmas” on the actual Christmas day though.
No one is offended besides the hardcore Christians. No muslim or orthodox Christian or whatever would be mad if you wish them merry Christmas if that’s the thing where you both live. As always, it’s fake fabricated outrage.
I have a neighbor just like this who INSISTS this is a Christian country and it’s Christmas break not WiNtEr break. Satan’s greetings from ya main witch! ✨🥰
First time I’ve heard someone upset over calling it “winter break.” People are wild
People are wild, they forget that sometimes. And some of those wild people really do love being victims, even if it is self made drama lol
I always like the “Put Saturn back in Saturday” retort
I’m stealing this, I hope you know.
Same! Love this!!
Happy summer solstice! / ☀️🌊🎄🇦🇺
Oh, I like that a lot >:D Jab 'em in both the 'Murica and the Christianity devious cackling ensues
I love it, wishing you all a bright solstice! ✨🤩
Merry Christmas!
Happy Hondadays.
Prison. Immediately.
Christmas is a prison. – Foucault supposedly
Merry Chrysler!
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Enemies of Christmas! To battle! Choose your weapon:
Obviously the Menorah.
It is made of metal unlike the card and the cup, and it does extra fire damage.
the coffee has splash damage and high DoT though
Y’all underestimating the low casting cost of saying “happy holidays”.
splash damage
I snorted 😂
True, it does AoE, but only once.
Unless we use videogame logic and it’s an infinite coffee cup
It can do heat damage too if you use McDonald’s coffee
The card can give you one hell of a paper cut.
It also has a hole in the middle to stick your finger in so you can rotate it like a Kunai or Sai and look badass
Can’t I just wield an entire holiday tree? That’s what my biofamily hate most.
I work with people in three different time zones. There is always someone having a flower festival, religious day or national holiday. Nobody gets offended for forgetting a holiday or if they did they don’t last long.
like I am gonna say Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas. The guy in the $4,000 suit. COME ON!
The man on the TV said people would get angry at me for saying merry Christmas - the guy in the $6,000 suit - COME ON
Merry War on Christmas
fuck yeah!
God jul!
Merry Chrysler!
Blasphemy, we celebrate Hondadays in this houshold!!!
Absolutely not. Those commercials should die and be erased from history. Let them fall into the inky black chasm of oblivion.
(I really hate those commercials.)
Merry Chrysler! :D
At the very least make it a Lexus December to Remember Sales Event!
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Merry Crisis!
Yo! saturnalia!
Happy Christmas and Merry New Year and Merry Hanukkah !!
Seems fine to me!
Season gettings 🤮
Maybe that’s actually why they support fascism-lite?
They only support fascism-lite because it’s the next step on the way to pure-fascism.
