Death of a Holiday Legacy
I'm a pretty festive person when it comes to the holiday season. It takes very little to make me happy and start belting out the holiday tunes. With my Santa hat in check, and some "fa la la la la" in my pocket, I'm all ready for the holidays. 'Cept thsi year something is different; something is no more; something died; it was a legacy (as the title indicated).
So, I'm flipping through the flyers the other day, looking for video games, or pictures of transformers, when I come across the Canadian Tire flyer. Now, it's never really been known as a child's toylan paradise, but they DO have some toys, so I ventured a look. The first part was just regular flyer, blah blah blah. Then, as an insert was the "Christmas flyer" - the true meat of this flyer, despite it's being just an insert. Anyways, I get about halfway through that, when something occurs to me. Where's Santa? Hold on a second... where's Scrooge?! Where the hell are they?! Where is my reminder to "Give like Santa and save like Scrooge"?! There's plenty of pictures of those 2 jackasses who do all their damn shopping at Canadian Tire, but not one picture of Scrooge (or Santa for that matter, but I'm mostly upset at the lack of Scrooge). Yes - I am highly upset by all of this.
They did something that not a lot of companies do around the holidays: namely put an old dude in Victorian clothes, in a modern auto-parts store, griping about prices, and a jolly fat man buying everything he comes across. That's needed! That's what the holidays are all about! Victorian-style griping and fat men! And they have the gaul to take it away! I mean, other than those ads, why is there a need to even go to Canadian Tire this Christmas? You really dug yerself into a hole with this one, Canadian Tire. You know who else did that? Dug his own grave, with evil and non-Christmas Spirit? Someone from "A Christmas Carol" maybe? I don't actually know, BECAUSE YOU KILLED HIM!!! Sorry for the caps... I've just got so much holiday-rage in me right now.
What's next? No more Toblerone's at Swiss Chalet for their holiday special? No more "Star of Christmas" in the Sobey's ads? No more Chipmunks at KFC? Okay, so I know that last one hasn't been around for like 10 years, but shut up! It was cool when it was around... just like Scrooge. *sniff, sniff, weep*.
Scrooge buddy, I'll be missin' you. *pours out a 45 of egg nog and motor oil on the curb*