I think we have a new phenomenon called New Year’s Creep. It’s not just Christmas. Now people want to speed right on to the next thing.
I was walking through the mall the other day, and I heard Auld Lang Syne playing! This was in November. All I could think was way to make me feel even worse about the fact that I haven’t bought any Christmas presents yet. Now you’re giving me the feeling that I missed the whole holiday. In half a second, I was filled with that letdown feeling I always feel after the noise makers stop dinging and the people stop singing at the end of New Year’s Eve, that feeling that all the fun stuff is over and now it’s time to drag myself through gloomy January.
It was just once, and maybe I’ll never hear it again. But I sure thought it was weird.