This past weekend marked the official start of the holiday shopping season. After stuffing themselves with turkey, dressing, and mashed potatoes on Thanksgiving, millions of Americans got up earlier than they would on a work day to hit the department stores the day after Thanksgiving.
This always leads to CNN, MSNBC, and local affiliates running stories on the chaos in the malls. As usual, I saw stories about people getting trampled at Wal-Mart, violence at the mall due to "holiday rage". I even saw a twelve minute piece on CNN devoted to "holiday rage". What is it? What are people doing to curb it. What meds should we take to reduce the rage in all of us during the holiday season. Two days after Thanksgiving, I was heading to a local coffee shop to get my morning fix and there was a line of people outside of PetCo waiting for the store to open. Is there some kind of hot dog toy on the market this year that all of the dogs want? What could you possibly need to wait outside of PetCo, in the cold, for?
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