Well it's nearly here, that time of year that a lot of people hate but I truly love, it's Christmas again, fuckin' YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY. I'm really quite giddy about this year too as last year I pretty much missed as I felt like shit and was recovering from a right good kicking and was filled with vile rage and revenge against all pikeys. So two weeks today we'll all be stuffed, pissed, tired, probably have fell out with someone and or asleep. It'll all be over all those weeks of preparation and expense finished for another year and it always seems when people actually hit that point that is when they actually seem to start enjoying themselves. See I always like to enjoy a stroll on Christmas day, well early evening about 5 or 6, nothing too strenuous just to get some air, wake up a bit, level off the days energetic boozing and enjoy the silence as you never seem to get any traffic or day noise at that time on Christmas day. But if you listen closely through the silence, as the clock strikes 6.30, you can hear the entire nation breathe an exasperated sigh of relief .
But watch out as this next couple of weeks your going to see usually mild mannered people turn into raving fucking loonies and utter bastards at the drop of a hat. Can be for any reason, screaming kids, everywheres too busy, spending money they can ill afford, pissed off they can't have the same amount of time off as their kids or just sick to death that they can't for the life of them understand Christmas anymore as all the TV and media consists of is the fucking x-factor and supermarket endorsed festive cooking programmes. When I was growing up Christmas specials started at the beginning of December and they were a real extravaganza they made this feel like a special time and the programme idents used to have Christmas trees and Father Christmas on and shit, just having a flick round now and you wouldn't even know its just mere days till Christmas there's some blue and white abstract shite that comes on between the programmes on BBC 2 that's been obviously thrown together by some digital design tit while he's wanking over his Macbook Pro with a black, unlit Christmas tree in the background.
Even the Father Christmas' are being bastards too. Now the older I get the more I feel that taking your child to see a fat man that smells of booze dressed in red velvet at your nearest high brow department store, plopping them on his unknown lap for a few minutes while he whispers lies into their ear is intrinsically very wrong on many levels mainly as kids now have no belief in Father Christmas shortly after their off the teat. You may as well just sit them on a plushy Argos catalogue with a tape recorder in it. But I was chatting to my friend the other day and she was telling me she had taken her little one to see one, the conversation between them both went like this :-
Father Christmas "So do you like trains?"
Kiddie "Yes I like Thomas The Tank Engine"
Father Christmas "Oh good, and where do you keep them are they tidy?"
Kiddie "Nowhere they are all on the floor"
Father Christmas "Oh? Do you not have a holder to keep them in?"
Kiddie "No they are on the floor."
Father Christmas "Well this year I'm going to bring you a Thomas The Tank train tidy to keep them in."
Kiddie "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!"
Now my Mate heard this and kind of groaned inwardly as her littlun excitedly told her what Father Christmas was bringing him, mainly as it was something else she hadn't budgeted for. But it gets better this, after looking for one it turns out they don't fucking exist even Argos don't sell one and as everyone knows if they don't sell it it probably only exists the mind of someone that's clinically insane and a murderer....... What an utter Bastard! But this gets me thinking what else did he promise that day that doesn't exist just to tip already fragile parents over the edge while they search for something that might as well be the Holy Grail!
I think they all meet in the pub after a hard days Christmassing and use their false promises as a points system to see who gets the first round? " And George is tonight clear winner he promised, 2 unicorns, the flying giant dog from Never Ending Story, a horse to a little girl who lives in a council flat an Optimus Prime pedal car that you can actually get in and turns into a robot and and his tour de force a Thomas The Tank Engine train tidy. Lets give him a big hand everyone!"
So just watch yourselves out there for the next couple of weeks folks it's going to be a bit mental. I've just had a thought actually back in 1984 my Uncle Graham promised me an A-Team van pedal car that you could get in and drive............ Never got one, and like a dick every Christmas I look for one, just had a quick look now and they still don't exist, not one you can get in anyway.
A child's mind is a fragile thing, that one impossible promise has led to 27 years of disappointment, can't wait for next year that'll make 28!
JINGLE BELLS YEAH!