Donuts Or Christmas – They Are Very Much Alike

It was fun to watch that old Dunkin Donuts Commercial where the chubby, bleary-eyed man stumbles out of his bedroom and, while wiping his eyes, he says, “Time To Make The Donuts”.

The same thing happens every year with the Christmas Shopping Season. The people who feed us our thoughts have in their word processors articles that predict for us every year how bad the Christmas Shopping Season is going to be. They just change a few “facts” in the article and change the date and publish it to us and there you have it, We Are All Worried About How Bad It Is Going To Be...again

We worry about...

• Do we have a personal obligation to spend more money than we thought we were going to spend or even more than we have in order to keep the economy going?
• These articles cause us to be greatly concerned about the children of the Christmas Retailers who depend so much on the Christmas Buying Frenzy for their continuing ability to buy stuff for themselves.
• If there really is a Santa Claus, how could he allow this to happen?

Then Christmas comes and goes (it does this every year) and, if (as so often happens) the Christmas Shopping Season turned out to be not as bad as predicted or absolutely bonkers good, we read about it on Page 42 of Section C of our newspaper.

Would I kid u?