It's beginning to reek a lot like Christmas :(

[John Sansker]

So, I'm in the grocery store the other day 9/27/05, grabbing stuff before I head out to work.
I'm at the self check stand and glance up, there is a shelf on the other side of the stand. This shelf is at about shoulder level to me, so I'm looking at this object on the shelf and my brain refuses to process it.
I look back down and finish scanning my items.
As I grab my groceries, I hear one of the store employees said to someone she knows "how do you like our Christmas stuff?"
The words "Christmas stuff" echo around in my head for a few seconds and I look back up at the item on the shelf.
It's a snowman.
A plastic snowman.
And lots of other Christmas crap.
I was pissed last year becuase I walked into a Dillard's store on the 1st or 2nd of October and they had just finished putting up the last of their Christmas trees.
I guess next year they'll start in August :(
Anyone else have this misfortune yet?

[BooTx]

Our Wal-Mart has a dancing pirate skeleton that sings 70's funk.

Oh and yes there's also a giant inflatable snowglobe in Home & Garden.

Merry Christmas, everybody!

-- BooTx

[Pastafarian]

Our Wal-Mart has a dancing pirate skeleton that sings 70's funk.

Yep, we have that here at the Wal-Mart I work at too. Damned annoying if I do say so myself, driving the chick in seasonal even more insane.

[BooTx]

Welcome to the forums, Pastafarian. Don't feed the Koontz.

[Pastafarian]

Welcome to the forums, Pastafarian. Don't feed the Koontz.

Why thank you, and who is this Koontz you speak of?

[Mattc0m]

Part of the Koontz experience is your first reading of one of his posts.

[LarryLard]

Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Koontz is. You have to see it for yourself.

[Joe O'Malley]

And don't read the first one if you've been drinking. No point wasting a pefectly good drunk.

[Robert Sharp]

Brian Koontz is our local prophet/loon. He is a genius...or a genie's ass...we aren't sure.

Anyway, I LOVE this time of year. Halloween stuff is it for me, but once it is gone, I enjoy the Xmas stuff too. I remember when I worked as a meat cutter though, and the Xmas music used to drive me crazy after a while. So I sympathize with those who have to put up with klitschy Xmas or Halloween displays.

[Lake]

K-Mart started selling Christmas trees in early September.