Happy Boxing Day - see comments for the rest
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How many right jabs did you get?
kek.
Well I get to stay home since my wife does the returns. This year though she didn't need to go, so she is out with a friend of hers doing lunch at The White Keg -- er -- The Cracker Barrel.
Happy Boxing Day to our Commonwealth friends, and our Commonwealth-wannabe state of Massachusetts (they celebrate it as well).
I like the concept of Boxing Day. I understand it as I lived in the UK for 2 years. It is a good idea and I always like people giving of their own free will to other people instead of the government forcing us to do something or just taking it from us themselves. What I don't get is how Boxing Day evolved into Black Friday Part Deux. I'm hoping someone can explain that to me. I know one of the excuses has something to do with Dollar/Looney parity a decade or so ago in Canada, but why The UK or other countries?
In the US (obviously not counting Massachusetts) we don't have a Boxing Day, but what we have could be counted as one. Every December 26th families begin the short trek to a WalMart nearby, burdened by the weight of bags of gifts from friends and relatives. When they arrive they all go and stand in a line (queue) filled with 10s of thousands of their neighbors, waiting to return all of their junk to one teenager with blue hair and a nose ring working at the only open cash register in the customer "service" area. Some of it can possibly be returned for cash, but most will be in the form of the WalMart gift card. The rest of the people in line are likely all fighting and pulling each other's hair while trying to get closer to the front of the line. This is also why we send our girls and women to do the returns. If men were in line there would be stabbings, "boxing", and a liberal amount of pantsing. We also let them keep the gift cards if they just leave us at home when they shop.
Meanwhile, some of the family members run off to go through the store looking for different junk to replace the junk they returned - all the while fighting with the other families just like in the front of the store.
During this process, WalMart employees are taking the junk that was returned and putting it back on the shelves to replace the junk that was just bought. It's almost like a great symphony - if played by 8 year olds on their recorders.
NOTE - in an amazing and confusing coincidence, all manager phones and walkie-talkies suddenly do not work at all.
I do find it funny how this all worked out. Boxing Day was about giving to the poor or to service workers to thank them for a great year of service. There is still giving, but somehow that evolved into going out and buying stuff for yourselves as stores try to outdo each other by dropping prices like a second Black Friday. Amazing how things go.
Happy Boxing Day!