have yourself a merry little christmas.

So, the Christmas (holiday if you want to be PC) season is upon us once again. This time of year I enjoy being inundated with holiday commercials, tunes and decorations. You can't help but feel a little itty bitty touch of magic in the air. People kinda have a bounce in their step. Well, some people.
As the weather gets colder, and the season more stressful I have begun to notice more and more angry couples whisper fighting. It is the oddest thing. Walking down the street, bumping along the subway, hailing a cab... etc. It is always the same scenario, just the setting is different. The girl is usually walking briskly ahead of a frustrated/down trodden boy. (It was probably his fault anyway). When they arrive at the crosswalk, the whisper/mumble fight is commenced, yet if you weren't paying close attention, it would look like they weren't even talking at all. The girl is angrily staring straight ahead, shaking her head erratically while the boy is whispering over her shoulder in a desperate attempt to get her to at least look at him. Then, in an extremely awkward, socially inappropriate, very public area, the girl will spin around to face boy and start finger pointing and gesticulating aggressively at his chest or head. Boy stands there, leaning slightly forward as if to say, "Please stop admonishing me in front of all of NY. I'm really embarrassed but too chicken to say so..." with a pitiful look on his face. At this point, I am so sick of trying to piece together this whisper fight, I walk off, wondering how it was resolved or what they were even fighting about in the first place.
I mean, c'mon people, it is Christmas. Lighten up. I understand you are EXTREMELY busy/stressed out/stretched too thin or whatever, but I am sure the nothing fight you were just having outside of Starbucks on 84th Street wasn't that important. But, I have to thank these people because it reinforces my belief that my life is not that hard. I could be Girl, whisper screaming at Boy because he brought home the California Roll instead of the Spicy Tuna and he KNOWS that she likes Spicy Tuna rolls on Wednesday nights!