If anybody tells me we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, I'm going to bust that person in the chops. It's not going to be a light busting, either; I'm going to knock their chops off and mangle the chops-area so thoroughly that chops-attachment surgery will fail.
I think I'm so worked up over Thanksgiving because 1) we haven't really had any pants weather here in Austin and 2) Halloween sucked.
To address my first point, I think that every day since February, it's been possible to wear shorts. And by possible to wear shorts, I mean socially acceptable for regular people to wear shorts around town, not just stoners who only leave the house to hit the post office.
With regards to point 2... I can't really justify that. But did anyone get spooked? Did anyone see any great costumes? Since I didn't hear about any of this, I think not.
Could we just keep Thanksgiving in a holding pattern until both conditions are met? We could just have week after week of trick-or-treat and balmy weather, until finally, sometime in late February, it gets chilly AND we stop half-assing our costumes.
That actually goes back to an idea I've long held: holidays would be a lot more interesting if they were held arbitrarily. Instead of having Christmas once a year, we could skip a few years, then have it two weeks in a row in June. I think we should only get a day or two of notice before the holiday, also. If you think the holiday shopping season is intense now, just wait until all of Dillards have been wiped out by last week's Christmas.
These are my ideas, and I leave it to Congress to implement them as I see fit.
Finally, let's all direct some good thoughts to Danza, who's loaded up on pain meds and sassing the nurses at a Dallas-area hospital. Get well quickly, amigo.
Posted by Cody at November 12, 2007 9:50 PM