I hate holidays

Well, I don't hate holidays mainly because I work for the State and we get a day off for holidays no one has ever heard of (Confederate Heroes Day, for example).

There is something I do hate about holidays though. Every single holiday is preceeded for what seems to be a month by a complete media blitz of "events" around whatever the holiday du jour happens to be. Recently, it's been Cinco de Mayo which is, if I'm not mistaken, the equivalent of the 4th of July in Mexico. The problem is not that we are celebrating Cinco de Mayo, the problem is that we are NOT celebrating Cinco de Mayo, we're using it as an excuse to get people into the bars and clubs.

Just for the record, I don't drink alcohol but I understand the whole, "any excuse for a party" mentality. If that is what this was about, I wouldn't have a problem but it's not, it's all about the complete and utter commercialization of everything in our lives.

Well, it's actually about having to hear the phrase "Cinco de Mayo" 10 billion times till I want to find a nice sharp ice pick and puncture my ear drums to get some peace.

Am I offically an old curmudgeon yet?