They’re decorating my call center for Halloween today. I guess we’re in the decorating season now. Ghosts, witches, pumpkins and shit for Halloween, followed by Turkeys, Cornucopia, and Pilgrims for Thanksgiving, and then all the tackiness the Christmas can secularly muster to follow.

It reminded me of this guy I worked with at the Council Bluffs Target named Greg Chase. He was an older guy. He had an acid wit, a sarcastic manner, and took solid pride in his curmudgeon status- the kind of person I admire.

During Christmas one year he came into work wearing a red t-shirt that had “Ho Ho Ho” printed on it. Somebody said to him “I thought you hated Christmas, Greg.”

He rolled his eyes and said “These are my 3 girlfriends.”