I did all planning and shopping over the weekend so I wouldn’t have to go to any stores. I went to a friend’s house for dinner.
And today is Boxing Day. I won’t be going out again but for the opposite reasons as yesterday; places will be too packed today with people shopping.
Husband and I stayed in all day. We watched football and played video games. I made waffles for breakfast and spaghetti for dinner. Neighbor gave us a box of chocolates so we had some of that too.
No because I have COVID :(.
Oof, get well soon!
All the pubs where I live, I think both the petrol stations. There’s Co-Op up the road that saw a sign on saying it is open 5 til midnight “including Christmas Day”.
Yeah I went out, pretty much everything was open except for the street vendor I normally get my oranges from. I guess Christmas just isn’t as big a deal in China as it was back home - still saw Christmas decorations at a handful of stores and restaurants - my tea said on the cup “Merry Christmas” and had an explanation of what Christmas was on the back lol
Seriously, how many of us lemmies live somewhere else? I’m in Rabat, there’s zero assassinated pine trees covered in brightly coloured plastic shit in sight. And everything is Business As Usual here.
live somewhere else?
somewhere else in regards to where?
I checked all the replies before replying here, and but for this “here in China” one, nobody seems to live / be / exist outside the catholic sphere ?
I’m just curious where you think we all live.
Well, online English speaking communities are gonna have a bias towards native English speakers. Obviously some will browse these communities because they’re the largest, but while machine translation makes communication much easier, it’s still more difficult than with speakers of your own language. And most native English speakers who aren’t also native speakers of a language mutually intelligible with Hindi live in north America. (I’m excluding South Asia because a sizable fraction of the online South Asian communities communicate in the pre-colonization languages, mostly Hindi). Most such people have a shared cultural heritage that is largely European with a British slant.
When you think about it it’s not an unreasonable question, when you interpret it to be asking how many of us are outside of the cultural influence of the anglosphere
Oh so cool! Are you native Morocco, or just visiting? I hear people there are so nice
Where I’m at almost everything except truck stops, a handful of fast food joints, even fewer liquor stores are closed.
My work is an outlier as we are in grocery distribution. We do shut down for major holidays, but a day earlier. So rather than getting the 25th off, I get the 24th off. We load the groceries on the trucks Christmas night and the trucks arrive at their destination early on the 26th. And yes, we are paid well.
Ran out maybe 500 meters for beer. Otherwise, we stayed in our humble abode and ate. The holiday was the day before with family, so Christmas was the small-but-mostly-traditional Christmas dinner my wife had planned.
Open: stores whose primary business is intoxicating in some way.
Closed: most other stuff.
I overate turkey (cutlets, cause turkey is a pain in the ass when cooking for two), mashed, noodles over mashed, and green beans w/ bacon. Had a couple beers, and a damn good night of sleep.
I’m easy to please, and struggle with sleep, so the whole thing was lovely.
The previous day, we all had breakfast for dinner. I married into a pretty awesome family, but humans are still exhausting so we both wanted to take it easy on the actual day.
Back to work today, but plenty of leftovers and work is just a few steps away thankfully.
I haven’t left the house in months.
I did! I took out the garbage and recycling, and cleaned out the car!
haven’t left the house all day 💅
nope. no idea.
Left the house for a walk in the rain with the wife. Lots of mountain bikers were out!
That was yesterday in my timezone. Yes, I spent Christmas Day with family a significant drive away.
Almost none; gas stations, some restaurants and dairies. Most were closed.
Thankfully we had rain all day, a nice change back to traditional rainy and humid Christmas Days.
At the risk of sounding stupid, what are dairies?
Where milk is produced and sold, sometimes along with other groceries.
Left the house to drive the partner to her parents house for some time with them.
Bars were open. I feel sorry for the people who go to bars Christmas day and feel even sorrier for the staff who have to work Christmas day.
Didn’t leave the house.
I worked retail/food service for years. Going to places on Christmas tells employers that they need to be open those days, and that their employees don’t need the day off.
Frankly i find it inconsiderate to the social contract to go out on holidays, and sometimes around them.
Its frankly why i always found Black Friday and the “scope creep” of this festival of consumerism partially so repulsive. I mean its repulsive on its own just in the way people act, but doubly so in that it runs right through a national holiday.
I lost years of Thanksgivings with family due to the scope creep of black Friday. Some years family could work around it, like we would have dinner at noon so I could be at work by 6 - but even then you feel terrible for forcing that.
For me it’s like any other day. I wouldn’t mind working for the double holiday pay.
To be fair, not everyone celebrates Christmas. As long as employees are getting a certain number of holidays in a year for whatever tradition they follow, I think it’s fine to be open on Christmas. But not to force anyone to work on Christmas, only if the business can sustain itself on non-Christmas-celebrating staff
that’s fair, but my experience was unfortunately the latter. Retail was very much “we need you to work today”, and any response other than “okay” was pretty much a reprimand. “Show up or don’t show up again” was said to me when I wanted to have Thanksgiving with family. Now I avoid anything non-essential on holidays.
