Monday, October 26, 2009

Happy Hallowchristmas

Well, here we are only in October, we haven't even gotten to Halloween, and the GG has noticed that some business establishments have already started to put out their Christmas decorations. It seems to the GG that this is happening earlier and earlier with each passing year. What the heck is going on? GG loves to watch old movies where the father and the son hitch up the horse and wagon about 2 days before Christmas and go get the Christmas tree. Then they bring it home and the whole family decorates it on Christmas eve. Whatever happened to those days? The only things that peeves your GG more than having to contend with Chirstmas in October is folks who leave their Christmas decorations up until after Easter. If it were up to me, there would be a fine assessed for each day decorations are left up beyond,say, January 1 and a surtax on the value of any decorations put out before, say, December 15. All our seasonal traditions and holidays now seem to overlap each other. Next week will be November, which judging by October and Christmas will mean it's time to start getting ready for Valentine's Day. All of this makes me very grouchy.
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Welcome, fellow grouches. Come in, put on a frown and make yourselves at home. According to my family and friends, I've been a grouch for quite some time. I turned 65 a couple of years ago so now not only am I a grouch but an official geezer to boot. A Grouchy Geezer! (But truth be known, I'm a grouch only on days ending in a "Y").

My purpose here is to share some of the things I've observed and experienced over the course of my life that have peeved, annoyed and irritated the crap out of me. Things that helped make me into The Grouchy Geezer. As fellow grouches, I feel sure you, too, have encountered similar things in your lives that have peeved, annoyed and irritated the crap out of you as well. If so, you'll have the chance to share them on this site.

The format is simple. From time to time I will post a pet peeve based on a particular life experience or observation or something currently in the news or in the culture that makes me grouchy.

This will be a free and open board and anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment on my peeve or relate one of your own. Any topic is fair game as long as it is something that makes you grouchy. The only requirement is that you use good taste and refrain from personal attacks. Use of profanity will make me even grouchier and bar you from further access to the site. That means you will have to grouch to your wife, not on here.

None of this is to say that uplifting banter is not encouraged. By all means, if you have something to say that is inspiring or that might force other readers to have to suppress a smile, let us hear it. But don't overdo it; after all, it's our grouchiness that defines and unites us and makes this blog possible.

GG