Thanksgiving

I read a lot of science fiction. It's not Curmudgeon Handbook required reading, I happen to enjoy perceptive and creative views of the future, alternate realities, and alien life. It can be quite illuminating.

Take a short story - set in the future - I once read about the Christmas season. It was starting with its usual bang just after Labor Day. And guess what? We're on that very path as I speak.

When I read that story, Black Friday was yet to be born. Stores started stocking Christmas decorations and playing Christmas music sometime after Thanksgiving. Black Friday, of course, changed all that. Today we have the initial rush Thanksgiving evening (the idiots are done with our meal, nodding off in front of the big game, let's go shopping).

We are on the march to a September start of the season - mark my words, and those of a perceptive science fiction writer. . And guess what? We're on that very path as I speak.