The zoo-like atmosphere of stores and parking lots, the daily Amazon shipments, the goofy Christmas songs written by non-Christians, the eight-hour ordeals of eating, drinking, and doing small talk with in-laws and people one rarely sees, obeying the rules of older people, especially boomers, and so on and so on! It is maddening!
The same sort boredom and drudgery is in weddings, sweet sixteens, and other holidays!
Sometimes the boredom turns into full-scale irritability and rage!
I can’t be the only one!
I’m not bothered by church going, saying prayers, baptisms, and the taking of vows at weddings, all the serious stuff. Obviously I love seeing my children open gifts. It’s the obligatory social stuff I can’t stand anymore!
