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It's Family Time!!!!!
How many of you went to the movies on Christmas Day? I have always boycotted the movies and other nonessential businesses on Christmas Day as I feel it is a day to enjoy family or stay at home and relish not going anywhere. By patronizing these businesses, it makes people have to go to work (most at $8.00 an hr) and miss one of the most important things in life--spending time visiting relatives and family. And I am not speaking from a religious point of view as I don't believe in organized religion. Why on earth would you go to the movies on Christmas Day?
39 comments from 20 users
posted by
madkow2747
on Dec 31, 2007 at 10:56 PM
Okay, I'll tell you, but keep in mind it was a one-time-only incident, so it's not all hotels! It was a Knights Inn, somewhere in Arkansas, I think somewhere around Fort Smith... okay, I lifted up the comforter and the sheets were totally covered with pubes!!!!!!! I almost threw up!!! But there was nowhere else to stay (I couldn't sleep in the truck because this was when I was with a trainer) so I slept on top of the comforter. *blahhhhh*In NC, I slept in a hotel room full of spiders (I nearly had a mental breakdown- spent the whole next morning smoking to calm down). In Memphis I napped with mosquitoes biting me. In Oregon I slept with a mouse. In Bridgeport, I slept in a room with no lock! In San Diego I stayed in a room while a guy got mugged outside. Guess I've stayed in some pretty crappy hotels! LOL! posted by
bigdog
on Dec 31, 2007 at 01:13 PM
I don't use them any more myself
posted by
countygirl
on Dec 31, 2007 at 01:07 PM
Thank goodness I've only used one of those like once, but now never again! lol
posted by
bigdog
on Dec 31, 2007 at 12:21 PM
So tell me countygirl have you ever used the motel coffee pot 
posted by
countygirl
on Dec 31, 2007 at 12:13 PM
That is so gross Bigdog! Seriously, both of you keep it up! This will help me with my weight loss because after reading this stuff I've lost my appetite! :)~ posted by
gillfish
on Dec 31, 2007 at 12:08 PM
That is making me laugh Bigdog!!! I believe it. Yeah-the comforter is the SEXCOMFORTER!
posted by
bigdog
on Dec 31, 2007 at 12:03 PM
I read somewhere that women wash there stockings and other things in the coffee pots supplied by the motel. posted by
countygirl
on Dec 31, 2007 at 11:56 AM
I love staying in hotels! I tend to be a bit on the picky side about them though. If the outside looks gross and run down you better believe I'm not staying there. My husband tells me I'm spoiled. (shrug) When I go to hotels I always pull back the comforter before sitting on the bed. I read some thing once that said while the hotels clean the sheets daily they only clean the comforters like once every three months. You know this is true! How often have you seen a maid with a comforter?? Blahh. Also socks on is always a must. Gillfish, thanks a lot for the coffee gross out! Thank goodness I've only used one of those like once, but now never again! lol
posted by
gillfish
on Dec 31, 2007 at 11:30 AM
I am a germaphobe. I have done the Big Rig sleeper thing and the whole time I kept thinking of the other truckers who had shared the bed. Let me tell you the music industry drivers are an assortment af drugies, sloppy, smelly and mostly overweight guys and they shared the sleeper! UGHHHH. (Not at the same time:) )What I did for love I wouldn't do today. I always bring my own pillow and light blanket to hotels. Slippers are mandatory also. I stayed at a motel for two months in Rialto while my son was in the hospital. I was really freaked about the place but it was the closest place to him and the firemen paid for it. Thank you Firemen!!! It was actually clean even though the area was bad and truckers seemed like their best customers. One more thing-I brought my own coffemaker. Why do they put theirs near a bathroom? Grossssssssssss.
posted by
awsmom8
on Dec 28, 2007 at 11:01 PM
TELL ME!!!!!! TELL ME!!!!!!
posted by
madkow2747
on Dec 28, 2007 at 06:34 PM
Hah! I love hotels! But a hotel was such a luxury compared to sleeping two adults in a twin-size bed in the sleeper of a big rig. (Although, given your fear, I won't even tell you what I found under the covers of a hotel in Arkansas! LOL!!) Oh and I won't stay in northern NC or Memphis again, but that's just because I hate hate hate bugs!
posted by
madkow2747
on Dec 28, 2007 at 05:32 PM
Sure, make fun of my terror... lol! ;)
posted by
Vickinyg
on Dec 28, 2007 at 05:03 PM
Madkow...I have to say this, I almost wet myself reading your first response on this it was soooo funny!! =)
posted by
TK
on Dec 28, 2007 at 01:44 PM
George Washington led the Continental Army across the Delaware River to launch an attack on the British on Christmas Day, December 25, 1776. Since the British celebrated Christmas and the new Americans did not, the Army was going to gain strategic advantage. Since then, Christmas has become a national holiday that many businesses honor by closing. Thanksgiving is another national holiday that often has closed businesses. The other national holidays are honored by government agencies and departments but not by many businesses. I don't think private businesses should be forced to close on any holiday. Perhaps there are some hourly-wagers who are forced to work, but I bet many are willing to give up a few hours to make the extra pay. That could make an interesting poll. I did not know the theatre was open or I might have gone (and it was discount day: all seats $4.50). Next year! posted by
Vader
on Dec 28, 2007 at 10:04 AM
Well if you truely want to honor what the puritans actually believed in, Christmas wouldn't even be a Holiday. Christmas was a European Custom and after the Revolution English customs fell out of favor with Americans. Congress was even in session on Christmas Day in 1789. In fact Christmas wasn't even a national holiday until 1870. Most of the customary traditions of celebrating christmas are European including the pagan traditions of celebrating the winter solstice. Since Americans have re-invented the Christmas holiday to fit our changing culture shows that there is no "right way" to celebrate the holiday and there is nothing wrong with that. By having Christmas as a holiday in the first place demonstrates that we as a country did "worry about" people's beliefs and accomodated them. As our country changes, we should always accomodate the people's needs. |
