This final weekend before Christmas is always the busiest shopping-wise as folks scurry around to finish up their gift giving chores (click here.) Accordingly, the last Saturday before Christmas is often referred to as Super Saturday or Panic Saturday (click here.)
While Black Friday still remains the busiest shopping day leading up to December 25th, today figures to be a close second. (It has something to do with Christmas being on a Thursday this year (click here.))
When the topic of last minute shopping was discussed in Buzzy’s Country Store recently, the consensus seemed to be, in the words of one of my Buzzy friends, “It’s simple. Lay some Lottery Tickets on their ass and wish ’em a Merry Christmas.”
With the Powerball payout currently over a billion dollars, it brought up another one of those bar room hypothetical lottery questions that went “If you give a ticket to someone and they win, are you expecting, or should there be, a payback in return?”
As you can imagine, the answers varied among my Buzzy friends from “No, you give a gift and what they do or don’t do with it is up to them” to “They better damnsite give me back something!” Couple of folks equivocated by saying “It depends how much they win.” (For more discussion of this so called “dilemma” (click here.))
Related to this, I found a nice story from a year ago when a Virginia father gifted, not just any Lottery ticket, but a winning one to his son as a wedding present. Stay for the end when you will learn that Dad did have an ulterior motive.
Musically, check out another of those underrated, but great Christmas tunes. I have played it previously, but always enjoy hearing it again. Written by Chris Butler it was recorded by The Waitresses with Patty Donahue on lead vocals.
To learn more about Patty and Chris and how he wrote this tune (click here.) Go to the 8:15 mark to hear how he hated Christmas and wrote the tune to reflect his negative feelings. At the video’s end it is noted that although the tune has since helped pay for Chris’ kids going to college, nevertheless, he still hates Christmas.