'Twas A Kris Kringle Story
Whatever happened to the simple act of gift-giving? Its apparent that life just isn’t worth a crumb off a piece of toast unless we complicate, and corrupt, distort and destroy the simplest goodwill gestures.
Whoever renamed Kris Kringle to ‘Let’s-rip-other-peoples’-presents-off-them-&-watch-them-sulk’? You know the one? Where everyone picks a number out of a box, seemingly in a normal, orderly way at first, to determine who gets preferential dip at the presents sprawled on the table. Ooo! Look! I got #9! With 21 of us in this office, 12 remaining presents to choose from isn’t so bad! Mmm…shinyyy wrappinggg paperrr…
But as quickly as you can say “Oh gosh, is that pudding flying at me??”, you realise that Christmas time was nothing but an extension of the 360 plus days of workplace competitiveness and pretentiousness and shadow conflict.
Gone are the days where the present you pick unquestionably belongs to you! Now you have to open it in front of everyone and any Kris Kringle-rer after you has the option of either picking a ‘new’ present, or taking yours! Ouch.
It’s baffling. Why is it…of all days in a year, you would pick Christmas time to look someone square in the eyes and rob them of their one, even if only just momentary happiness for the entire work year, as you walk away in slow, triumphant motion with their present in your hand. What point is there in making other people miserable, and secretly hate you for the rest of the year? No more favours! No, I can’t get your printout from the copier even though I’m on the way to your desk. No, I can’t cover for you over lunch. Yes, she talks all day and never gets anything done!
It just isn’t worth it. It just turns people ugly, and in some cases, it makes wise judgement not to amplify it! People will yield to the quality of their own luck, or lack thereof, in picking good or bad presents, but they will not accept anyone else playing God, or assuming the role of Karma. Aren’t we just built that way?
Out of all the mugs, chocolate boxes, cookie tins, desk fan, esky, more chocolate, and gift vouchers that were up for grabs, I must say I’m a stressed-out, but generally most happy recipient of a Village Cinemas gift pack with three movie passes. Stressed because naturally, the movie tickets were twice challenged and taken from me, and oh boy, the sooky smile doesn’t quite hide the evil burning eyes. (@_@) Thankfully, by the grace of loopholes in this forsaken method of KK, it somehow ended up back with me. ^_^ Sure this time it worked out, but gimme traditional KKs any day….especially…at Christmas….
This will be my last entry for the year - I’m off overseas from tomorrow afternoon! Yippee! *doin’ a dance, doin’ a dance* Merry Christmas to all of you, and have a safe new year… (p.s. only 10 days left to fulfil 2005’s resolutions too, so get on to it!)
Whoever renamed Kris Kringle to ‘Let’s-rip-other-peoples’-presents-off-them-&-watch-them-sulk’? You know the one? Where everyone picks a number out of a box, seemingly in a normal, orderly way at first, to determine who gets preferential dip at the presents sprawled on the table. Ooo! Look! I got #9! With 21 of us in this office, 12 remaining presents to choose from isn’t so bad! Mmm…shinyyy wrappinggg paperrr…
But as quickly as you can say “Oh gosh, is that pudding flying at me??”, you realise that Christmas time was nothing but an extension of the 360 plus days of workplace competitiveness and pretentiousness and shadow conflict.
Gone are the days where the present you pick unquestionably belongs to you! Now you have to open it in front of everyone and any Kris Kringle-rer after you has the option of either picking a ‘new’ present, or taking yours! Ouch.
It’s baffling. Why is it…of all days in a year, you would pick Christmas time to look someone square in the eyes and rob them of their one, even if only just momentary happiness for the entire work year, as you walk away in slow, triumphant motion with their present in your hand. What point is there in making other people miserable, and secretly hate you for the rest of the year? No more favours! No, I can’t get your printout from the copier even though I’m on the way to your desk. No, I can’t cover for you over lunch. Yes, she talks all day and never gets anything done!
It just isn’t worth it. It just turns people ugly, and in some cases, it makes wise judgement not to amplify it! People will yield to the quality of their own luck, or lack thereof, in picking good or bad presents, but they will not accept anyone else playing God, or assuming the role of Karma. Aren’t we just built that way?
Out of all the mugs, chocolate boxes, cookie tins, desk fan, esky, more chocolate, and gift vouchers that were up for grabs, I must say I’m a stressed-out, but generally most happy recipient of a Village Cinemas gift pack with three movie passes. Stressed because naturally, the movie tickets were twice challenged and taken from me, and oh boy, the sooky smile doesn’t quite hide the evil burning eyes. (@_@) Thankfully, by the grace of loopholes in this forsaken method of KK, it somehow ended up back with me. ^_^ Sure this time it worked out, but gimme traditional KKs any day….especially…at Christmas….
This will be my last entry for the year - I’m off overseas from tomorrow afternoon! Yippee! *doin’ a dance, doin’ a dance* Merry Christmas to all of you, and have a safe new year… (p.s. only 10 days left to fulfil 2005’s resolutions too, so get on to it!)
Merry X'mas from mr.roo-dolph & I
Muahhh muahh muahh! xoxoxo…
posted by joni @ 9:44 am
2 Comments:
people are real good at wrecking things sometimes.
Sad, isn't it? Sighhh..I'm surprised not more have people picked up on this 'flawed' Christmas anti-tradition...
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