or any other "prewritten" greeting? (happy holidays, joyous yule, happy Hanukkah, etc etc...)
Because in all actuality, I mean..."Hi, it's cold, the holidays are coming, and I don't know you well enough (or care enough) to actually strike up a conversation with you, maybe I'm too busy, maybe not, but I want you to agree that I'm sociable and polite"
2007-12-13 02:49:13 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
thats the shortened version UP, lol
2007-12-13 02:54:40 · update #1
excellent Tawaen
2007-12-13 02:59:56 · update #2
LOL wyvern, thanks
2007-12-13 03:07:10 · update #3
"I'm only saying this because my job has asked me to, and whether or not you do actually have a happy holiday is niether my job nor my concern. So please take your books and move aside for the next customer, because I get out of here in an hour and I have to catch up on The Hills before the finale, because reality television is MY religion. Oh, and next time, don't write a check; It's 2007."
2007-12-13 06:05:08 · answer #1 · answered by Blue bird 2 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Christmas is an official holiday, on the calendar. Merry is another word for happy. By saying "Merry Christmas" you are expressing a wish for a person to be happy on that day. If someone wishes you a Merry/Happy (Holiday that you don't celebrate) is it really that big of a deal? Getting pissed at someone who was only trying to wish you well certainly doesn't make anyone happy.
2016-05-23 09:17:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I mean "I hope you have a Merry Christmas". I suppose I'm weird.
I love this time of the year. No amount of commercializtion and political correctness is going to change that. I have ALWAYS loved this time of year. I love the lights, and the eggnog and the french vanilla whipped cream that they ONLY put out this time of the year (Which is crap. I love that stuff) I love hot choclate and apple cider and singing songs. I love family and huge meals and fires in the fireplace. I like that most people at least TRY to be better people, even if it is just because they feel like they have to be LOL. I love all the specials they put on and the books we read once a year like How the Grinch Stole Christmas and the Night Before Christmas. I love the trees and the ornaments that I can remember that I got each year. I love the gifts but really that is last on my list.
So if you celebrate Christmas I hope you have the really great one. I hope people have a great holiday no matter what they celebrate. I mean it in all good cheer. I freaking love this time of the year. I'm that person that gets on everyone's nerves but I throw one kick *** party so everyone comes. LOL
2007-12-13 03:09:16 · answer #3 · answered by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Heathen Daughter took the words right out of my mouth - so I ditto everything she said. I too love this time of year, find lots of happiness in it and all the things it brings for me - extra and special times with family and friends, special and yummy (if fattening and sugar coma inducing) foods, crisp air, the opportunity to give special gifts/love/attention to people who are important to me, and an opportunity to recieve the same back, cheerful music, etc. etc. etc. and so on - and so when I say Merry Christmas - whether to a friend, family member, aquaintance or stranger - what I mean is "I hope you experience this year all of the wonderful things that Christmas brings and I wish you all the best. I hope you're feeling the same kind of love and happiness I am so fortunate to feel. I wish you happiness and joy" to put it in a nutshell.
2007-12-13 03:23:05 · answer #4 · answered by Marvelissa VT 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about you, but my employer wouldn't take too kindly to me taking significant amounts of time away from my work to strike up conversations with each of the scores of coworkers I see every day. If I struck up lengthy conversations and in-depth getting-to-know-you sessions with each of them during the work day, I'd get no work done, and would be fired.
When I am out shopping or doing errands and run into acquaintances, it is pleasant to chat for a bit, but one or both of us often have limits on our free time just then. We might have a hungry, fussy baby with us, or we are on their way to the daycare to pick up a child. Maybe one of us has dinner to fix or an appointment with a client.
Long visits with family and friends are great and I enjoy them very much, but if you work and run a home, you don't often have time for these. But it would seem a shame to utterly snub everyone else around you, because the maximum time you have is one minute to say "hello".
Any number of standard pleasantries seem good to use throughout the year: "How are you?" " Nice to see you!"
"How is your summer going?" or "How was your summer?" seem to be popular. "Are you ready for the cold weather?" is something people ask in the fall. "How 'bout the 'skins, the Vikings, the Dolphins?" is what they ask if they know you like sports. "How's the family?" "How's your Mom?" "How's your husband (or wife) doing?" is what people often ask if they know one of your loved ones was recently in the hospital.
I think of these and other expressions such as "Happy Holidays" and "Happy New Year" as just simple, pleasant, charming ways to "reach out and touch someone" when it would be inappropriate to drop everything you are doing and sit down for a half-hour conversation with the other person.
2007-12-13 03:10:18 · answer #5 · answered by Catherine V. 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Merry Christmas = "I wasn't able to slip out of the moment without you noticing that I didn't say 'Merry Christmas' back, and since you've just wished me 'Merry Christmas' and I know that you're Christian from the pictures you showed me of when you got your son/daughter baptised and/or the couple of times you've talked about going to church, but I don't know you well enough to say 'Blessed Yule' because you won't have any idea what I'm talking about, almost certainly and I don't feel like standing out here in the cold explaining my belief system to you and I don't want to abbreviate my belief system to save my freezing feet any have you leaving thinking that I believe in Satan because I'm Wiccan so our next meeting can be awkward and strained, here's the acknowledgment of your holiday and at a later date when I'm not losing feeling in my toes we'll discuss my beliefs."
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2007-12-13 03:03:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
I just mean that this time of year makes me very happy, and I hope that they are happy too. It's always well wishing.
But I don't say Merry Christmas to strangers, on the off chance they'll be all sensitive about it even though I'm just wishing them well. I say "Happy Holidays" and it means just that: have a happy holiday season.
2007-12-13 03:00:05 · answer #7 · answered by Rachel loves lasagna 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Man...you're killing my X-mas (or whatever) spirit this year! (lol) To me, it's a shortened version of "Hope this season is kind to you and yours, and hope we can get together before the snows block us in". Oh - and Peace on Earth, Goodwill Toward Men.....but there's not a lot of that on here right now! (lol)
2007-12-13 03:11:41 · answer #8 · answered by Blue Oyster Kel 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I say it, and then watch the response to see if I should be offended. There is a war on Christmas going on, and one can't be too careful. Loose lips sink ships, I always say.
2007-12-13 02:55:56 · answer #9 · answered by 2 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Merry Christmas=May the day that our Lord and Savior was born bring you many blessings
2007-12-13 03:01:16 · answer #10 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋