A Higher Claus

Christmas is nigh and i have (for the most part) successfully avoided christmas carols. Mercifully i only heard a snippet of "Grandma got run over by a reindeer" once this year. I was forced to peruse the shelves of the store i was in with even more concentration, thus blocking out any extraneous (carol) noise. I'm sure at this time last year my hatred for the song could not have been any more vitriolic; I swear it was played every five minutes, and it doesn't even have any redeeming musical features! The melody is inane, and the spirit of the song is not particularly festive. Perhaps one can liken "grandma" to Jesus in that she too is a martyr to a higher claus, though Jesus, unlike Grandma, had not been indulging in Egg Nog which i suspect contained more than a snifter of brandy and rum... It's a tenuous link at best.

Merry Christmas. I think.