My Christmas Cheer

I have often been accused of being a bit of a Scrooge at Christmas, however, after my youngest daughter's preschool Christmas program I feel like I have been uniquely suited to wish a special kind of Christmas cheer to some people. So begins my Christmas wish list:

1. For the lady in the third row who elected to stand to see her child despite the twenty five rows of people behind her that couldn't see a thing because she chose to do this -- I wish you a seat at a very important occassion directly behind a lady with an obnoxiously large hat surrounded by two very tall men.

2. For the family behind me that talked throughout my daughter's whole performance as they relished in how cute their two year old looked just moments before -- I wish you the opportunity to sit in front of a family just like yours next year.

3. For the people who could not be asked politely, cajoled, or even ordered out of the aisles by the people in charge of the program during the performance -- I wish you many happy traffic jams and a nudge or two by those cars only interested in their own spot on the freeway.

and finally,

4. For the folks who thought that the instruction to wait to pick children up from the front of the auditorium applied to the other 100 children's parents but not them -- I wish you children with the same ability to perceptually distinguish the irrelevance of instructions to them even though it sounds to everyone around them relevant.

Oh - and God bless us everyone!