I don’t understand what the holiday crap is all about. I have never seen a more discontented foul-mood bunch of nimrods than in a shopping mall. <\/p>\n
It’s fun to be nice to them and watch their reactions. I sang carols- just under my breath- all day long, people next to me in store lines looked…. and sometimes smiled. SOmetimes they shook their heads as if I were insane. WHich showed good judgement on their part. <\/p>\n
Still. I have a lot of friends in dire straits. A lot of people who have actual problems. I have some things going on in my life but nothing the careful application of cash (or credit) cannot resolve. And, thankfully, I have the cash- and credit.
\nI’m the luckiest sonofabitch alive, and I ain’t afraid to say it. I could have real trouble, and I don’t. You know what’s REALLY miraculous- at the time of year when I’m usually packing on an extra twelve, thirty pounds, I’m not gaining a pound- though I’m constantly surrounded by wonderful things. Which I sample with glee. “Sampling” being the operative term. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I don’t understand what the holiday crap is all about. I have never seen a more discontented foul-mood bunch of nimrods than in a shopping mall. It’s fun to be nice to them and watch their reactions. I sang carols- just under my breath- all day long, people next to me in store lines looked…. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}