The worst thing about christmas

The worst thing about christmas is not: the packed shopping centres or supermarkets (with people stocking up as if for WWIII, despite the fact the supermarket will indeed open again two days later...); it's not the fact that if you buy a real christmas tree it's guaranteed to die before christmas day; it's not even that we feel the need to roast various types of animals in 40 degree Australian heat (I'll be guilty of that one too!).

The worst thing about christmas is that suddenly you start to see otherwise sane-looking humans suddenly dressing in oversized t-shirts with christmas designs on them, with tinsel in their hair, or blinking christmas earrings. The worst thing about christmas is christmas clothes. I find them incomprehensible. We don't break out the easter egg shirts for Easter, and I've yet to see any Passover earrings. It's obvious that a lot of these people have had their shirts a while and wear them every christmas - which indicates foresight and the wish to wear this hideous clothing again and again!

Maybe I just don't enter into the whole christmas spirit enough. I can accept christmas spirit - but only so far. Christmas clothing is taking it too far.