The Antidote!
I find it fitting that Halloween comes right before November. All Hallows Eve is hyped as being the spookiest day of the year. It’s a day of scary movies, costumes, tricks, and frights. To the average Joe this day looks like it’s the most terrifying day on our calendar but to me it’s not. Halloween is just a last reprieve, a ghoulish celebration that distracts us from what is coming. It gives us one last chance to smile and party carelessly before the real horror begins; the holiday shopping season.
Every day, starting November 1st until Christmas Eve, becomes exponentially more ghastly as throngs of people clog the malls and shops, snarling traffic and growing more and more anxious as they try and find something for the relatives and friends that they barely see or talk to anyway. The for those two long months the all normal people disappear and the world becomes infested with clueless shoppers, aimlessly rambling about looking for a bargain or, at minimum, an item that they can buy in bulk for multiple aunts, uncles, and so on.
Coming to a Mall Near You!