Dear Christmas Music, Please Come Back In December

It never seems to fail, Christmas keeps coming sooner and sooner every year as well as the music that follows. I don’t normally mind walking the malls, doing the occasional Christmas gift shopping and listening to the last-minute shoppers complain due to the stores being out of a certain toy or gift, but the last thing I want to hear is the same song over and over blaring through the P.A. systems just to get more sales in the mall. What’s worse, they started playing them a couple of days after Halloween.

Don’t get me wrong I like Christmas music and all but when you hear “deck the halls” a hundred times in an hour, there is only so much you can take. I find the malls get busier around late November, early December due to the shoppers looking for gifts but give us a break with the music. Thankfully mp3 players and iPods come in handy at this time of year. I love going to the malls around Christmas though especially after getting the shopping out-of-the-way, because sometimes you have to stop and laugh at the fact people wait until the last-minute, then get angry with the stores. I wouldn’t mind hearing Christmas music in the malls however if they changed up the songs once and awhile and not play the same song on repeat. Maybe I’m just grumpy because this year I’ll be joining the last-minute shoppers, or it could be because I’m already tired of hearing Christmas music on the radio and in stores, but in the end, all I can honestly say is if I have to listen to “Deck The Halls” one more time in a store and hear it on repeat, it’ll make me want to scream.

With that rant over I hope you all have a good week.