The War Against Sukkot
Today I ran some errands at lunch, stoppping to pick up some leaf-shaped cookie cutters and scope out the end-of-summer discounts on hanging candle lanterns and chandeliers. No problem, found what I needed - but you wouldn't believe the store signs:
"Fall Decor"
"Autumn Harvest"
even "Seasonal Items"
Excuse me? Since when did we stop calling holidays by their names?
I am deeply offended that these stores, stores which presumably are catering to their buying
public, couldn't bring themselves to post a single "Happy Sukkot" or "Zman Simchaseinu" sign up.
For crying out loud, it's not like people won't KNOW what all this plastic crap is FOR. Where but in a sukkah would you put up garlands of plastic flowers or fall fruits?
I think it's time we called them on their doublespeak, friends. Sure, it may not be "P.C.," it might make some people feel "left-out" or "unacknowledged," but we need to make a stand.
If not now, when? (At Pesach, when they put out all the beitza-dye as "spring egg coloring kits"?)
If not us, then who? (Are we going to leave it to the Zoroastrians?)
If they want a war, let's fight back.
"Fall Decor"
"Autumn Harvest"
even "Seasonal Items"
Excuse me? Since when did we stop calling holidays by their names?
I am deeply offended that these stores, stores which presumably are catering to their buying
public, couldn't bring themselves to post a single "Happy Sukkot" or "Zman Simchaseinu" sign up.
For crying out loud, it's not like people won't KNOW what all this plastic crap is FOR. Where but in a sukkah would you put up garlands of plastic flowers or fall fruits?
I think it's time we called them on their doublespeak, friends. Sure, it may not be "P.C.," it might make some people feel "left-out" or "unacknowledged," but we need to make a stand.
If not now, when? (At Pesach, when they put out all the beitza-dye as "spring egg coloring kits"?)
If not us, then who? (Are we going to leave it to the Zoroastrians?)
If they want a war, let's fight back.
posted by Tzipporah at 4:38 PM
12 Comments:
ROTFL, my dear.
nice.
Furthermore, why do they wait until the very end of December to put the sukkah lights on sale?
LOL!
(At Pesach, when they put out all the beitza-dye as "spring egg coloring kits"?)
Have you ever heard of colored eggs for Lag BaOmer?
To me, the worst part is the way that stores around here build up Purim a ridiculous six months in advance, while we're still doing Succos!
I've got candles from the kosher aisle.... which were available two weeks before peysach. I never knew about the chumrah not to use electric lights for eight days, before, but now I'm surprised it isn't more widely known.
Electricity is by physics a zeicher for chometz.
Hello, did someone say 'zoroastrian"?
A tower of silence next to every cretch..., cresht...., creptsh... however that word is spelled.
On second thought, that might not be such a bright idea. The spelling of the word has nothing to do with why it isn't.
---Grant Patel
Granty-poo, yer gibbering.
And by the way, it's the kretsh in kretsh-much.
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I had to read these comments aloud.
At first I thought you were asking, "Kvetch much?", and I was going to defend our rights to kvetch about all this.
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