Today is August 5th...

[Steve Maskery]

...and today I have had to endure my first Christmas carol.
For god's sake.

 

[MikeG.]

...and today I have had to endure my first Christmas carol.
For god's sake.

Steve.......what the hell are you doing anywhere near an establishment that might play any music at all, let alone a xmas carol? Builder's merchants, woodyards, and tool merchants don't generally play musac, and I'm struggling to think of a good reason why you'd ever been in any other sort of retail setting.

 

[Steve Maskery]

I was parked outside Dunelm*, preparing to buy an Emergency Duvet, as you do, and a bloke parked in his car with the doors and windows open had it blaring out. I was an unwilling and accidental bystander, I can assure you. It's really upset my biorhythms.
S
*It was once John Lewis all the way, but times, and bank accounts, change.

 

[MikeG.]

Ah, forgivable then. Just. Dunelm have an online presence. I doubt there is any risk of xmas carols with their deliveries......

 

[Glynne]

I was parked outside Dunelm*, preparing to buy an Emergency Duvet, as you do

Always a good idea, never know when your existing duvet will break...??

 

[Tasky]

So heeeeeere iiiiiiit iiiiiiiis Merry Chriiiiistmaaaaaaas,
Ev'ry booooooody's havin' fuuuuuuuuuuuun......... :ho2 :deer

 

[lanemaux]

Don't feel too bad Steve. After all , it was just a random occurrence and a one off at that.
When I was a young lad I had a job selling shoes at a department store on the low end of the prosperity spectrum. This place was a bit pitiful in a number of ways (Saks Fifth Ave. it was not). As we were putting away the Halloween stuff the manager began prep for Christmas. Into the store 8 track player (remember those?) was placed Elvis greatest Christmas hits .Until just about Easter that one tape tormented my fellow employees and myself. Oh , did I mention that the track switching on this high end player was non functioning? It was also piping the music from his office which he began locking after I had switched it off a couple of times. (I should have taken a lump mallet to the darn thing from the start). So one carol should not be too hard to put out of your thoughts in fairly short order.

P.S. I'm shaking a bit just thinking about even now ,44 years later.

 

[Doug B]

Perhaps you’d parked next to that chap who celebrates Xmas everyday :-k
I guess if you’re mad enough to have an Xmas dinner etc every day you’ll be listening to carols as well

 

[t8hants]

I volunteer at the I.W. Steam Railway, Events Dep't, for me Christmas starts in earnest on Nov 1 and will last until mid Feb, during that time I will erect four Santa's grotto's, help to construct one winter wonderland, erect several xmas trees, collect and store four large transit vans of presents - 1 year to 12+, 1000's of mince pies, 20 boxes of mulled wine plus mulling machines, wrestle with several large cuddly reindeer, polar bears and other soft toys, drag 50 plus boxes of decorations out of the Station attic and get them ready for pat testing where needed, put up three stations worth of outdoor tinsel and turn one Southern Railway concrete lineman's hut into Scrooge & Marley's counting house. However the worse thing is having to listen to piped 'jolly' Christmas music , whilst the automatons in the wonderland play a dozen different Xmas tunes at the same time. The best time is when I get to heave the worn out and broken into the skip, and shut the door on the Santa store for another eight and half months.