Christmas was clearly not for me, I thought to myself. I lived my life by rules; I needed structure. The holiday season was chaotic, and seemed to bring out the worst in people. I wondered how family would react to the gifts they received if they knew to what morally questionable lengths their loved ones went to get them, how they mistreated others, shoving, pushing, cursing, filled with impatience at every turn; in their vehicles, in their shopping, everything. It was deplorable.
If any of my pilots were to act the way I had witnessed innumerable civilians act in the name of Christmas, I would have them under court-martial faster than they knew what hit them.
I was losing myself in the madness. I needed order. I needed direction.
ADVENT DAY 16
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ROC'S RAMBLINGS 
Do not traumatize sales associates! Despite popular belief they are people too and the good ones are doing everything they can to make your shopping go as smoothly. Keep that in mind when you are standing in line!
Go out specifically once a year to a randomly picked superstore or shopping center and donate to the Salvation Army bell ringer stand. Only afterwards may you begin your Christmas shopping.
It’s only once a year and towards a good cause: those people who have troubles in communication, not a place to go, no warm food to eat, and no clothes to wear.
Also it makes “justifying” those larger purchases more easy to swallow 😉
“The Mistletoe is not a requirement should the other person be unsightful, or of the same gender and unwanted”
For the holiday this year, let one pod go….
Yeah, I couldn’t keep a straight face either 🙂
Buy yourself a gift before you buy anybody else one
If you’re thinking of eating that store bought fruitcake, stop. It’s not as delicious as it looks.
Candy canes are meant to be licked slowly by a hot woman.
No good deed goes unpunished – so do one good deed.
The gifts you say you want over and over, are the gifts you won’t get.
Most people prefer not to have to fly all the way back to their base in a pod. Do them a favor and send them home faster.
Spread some Christmas joy: be sure to wish everyone a merry Christmas when you pod them.
I something like this earlier in the comments, but it bears repeating as a more general rule.
Don’t EVER eat the fruitcake.
A faction fitted ship always makes a good present, especially in a killmail.
Don’t ask for it if you’re not ready to not receive.
Rum makes everything better. Overproof rum doubly so.
Christmas is very much like a very good whiskey (my preference being a Scotch Single Malt).
Should savoured with every sip and never greedily gulped.
Once truly appreciated and understood, can be enjoyed quietly solo or with others (both is best at equal measures)
Has a beautiful body/aura/flavour as it slides across your palate/soul.
And finally, leaves you with a nice warm fuzzy feeling.
Internet shopping. ’nuff said
If the present has air holes don’t shake it.
If you mix red and green nyquil together it’s not a Christmas drink.
If you give your cat a Christmas gift don’t make it cat nip. Because they will open it prematurely with great prejudice.