We've had some sort of tragedy or drama at Thanksgiving time for the last several years. It does make you wonder when the other shoe is going to drop, and has made me dread the holidays. I would honestly rather just skip the holidays entirely and thought that the idea in the John Grisham novel, "Skipping Christmas" was a pretty good idea.. I start holding my breath in November and hold it until after Valentine's day...(I'm also disillusioned with all of the commercialism during this exact same period, so that doesn't help.) It is marketing genious... they start playing Christmas music in October now, and that initiates a Pavlovian response so that people start buying gifts. This will be my only post about this because I hate being a scrooge, just thought I would pipe in since Randy was nice enough to make a thread.