On my way back home today I stopped by a pub and had lunch. During the meal I got to thinking about some soft drinks I kept promising to buy for myself. So, after leaving the pub I drove around the corner to a mini-mart and went inside and collected the drinks. At the check-out there was an old guy deep in conversation with the check-out girl. They were talking about the unnecessary food consumption that goes on at Christmas time. I waited patiently and tried not to seem too eager to pay for my drinks for I was interested in the conversation. The girl was saying that she and her family were going to spend less on food this year than they normally do. The old guy was talking about ‘tradition’. When they glanced in my direction I popped in with, ‘I have beans on toast for my Christmas dinner’. I didn’t think they believed me but I reitterated and the girl replied ‘Well it is silly spending too much on food because it is Christmas’. It seems to me that today, because of ‘tradition’, people do spend unnecessarily large amounts on food. The way I see it you can only eat so much in any one day and normally you would eat the same amount no matter which day it was. However, because you’ve bought more ‘delicacies’ you indulge more with the subsequent consequences. I piped in again, ‘People don’t celebrate Christmas for the right reason anymore’, to which they replied, ‘No they don’t’. Christmas isn’t about stuffing as much food and drink inside you at all but it appears that it has become that way for the majority. What a shame that they misunderstand the true meaning and reason for the Chistmas celebration. The old guy finished by saying, ‘People should give food to the starving and poor instead’. Now there’s a thought eh?
Shirley Anne
