- - What exactly is it that possesses people to rouse themselves before dawn and join masses of like-minded shoppers to wait for store gates to open at four a.m. and earlier the day after Thanksgiving? You may get a few bargains, but is it really worth it? I know of one person in my immediate area who waited in line for an hour and twenty minutes to check out at the cash register with just a few items. Some people really get off on this kind of competitive shopping...it's almost a bloodlust kind of thing.The spirit manifested by some Xmas shoppers is so very un-Christmas as to make your heart bleed, an attitude of get out of my way, and gimme mine! People have actually been trampled to death by the human herd....
...and isn't it ironic that this annual orgy of materialism is supposedly to commemorate Christ, who himself owned little except for the clothes on his back?
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