The Day After - Equipped for Battle

The tree is bare underneath, and the packages are all gone. The lights seem to glimmer a little less, and the music doesn't seem quite as festive. Bags of colorful wrapping paper line the walls, and even the ornaments on the tree do not look as special. The food is now considered leftovers, and the taste is much more bland now that the morsels have had a little time to age. However, among all this passing shadow of the most wonderful day of the year is the opportunity to brighten everything once again by getting out to the stores that will be filled with the joy and festivities of returns! Everyone say, “Yay!” for returns on the day after Christmas.

Those horrible shoes and that hideous tie, that atrocious blouse and that head swallowing hat, those much too small jeans and ugly colored belt shall all have a place in the refuge of exchange, the mound of returns, and the chambers of swapping. There is no article safe from the day after Christmas. At any time those items deemed unfit, improper, the wrong brand or broken shall be included in the festive parade of people lined within stores to rid themselves of the site of them. It's the day of a different party, and the invitations are abundant and within everyone's hand who received any gift at all during this Christmas season.

So get out there. Push among the masses. Persuade, convince, move and wrangle if you must, and continue the activities of the holidays by joining in the “day after”. But then again, maybe, quiet satisfaction and peace at home would be a better choice.

Until tomorrow...Why Say More?

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