Santa’s coming to town
On a side note, tomorrow the 21st of November, St-Catherine Street in downtown Montreal will host the Santa Claus Parade.
While if you’re a kid this might be a big event for you, for the rest of us it will only mean that traffic will be disrupted downtown and hordes shopping crazed parents will invade the streets of downtown; eventually to return home carrying heavy shopping bags with items that will be forgotten right after Christmas as quickly as they were bough.
Really, it is just plain ridiculous that the Santa Claus parade is held so early. It’s not even December yet, Christmas is in over a month time. The parade just goes to prove how Christmas has lost its celebration spirit to turn into a shopping frenzy fueled by guilt and societal and marketing pressure.
This is really not the Santa Claus I was dreaming of as a kid.
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Yes, good point. I didn’t think about the fact that it will (probably) be damn cold in December. I guess it does explain a bit why the parade is so early.
But I still maintain that it is also good for business, to kick-start the Christmas shopping season early, get some of that consumer-blood flowing in people. And actually, there really isn’t anything wrong with that. As long as you know it.
ahhhh parents suck don’t they? the whole culture surrounding having kids, soooooooo pathetic! why don’t they just realize that the secret to life is not to procreate but to just stay relatively single and more importantly barren? you know the city would be a much better place without them, blocking the $%^&*! sidewalks and shopping venues with their big strollers, brimming over with…. stuff. Imagine, no parents, no parades, no kids!!! Now that’s what this enlightened society really needs – ahhhh can’t you hear the peaceful silence now? all the single people, enjoying the city all to themselves…. getting old….breaking down…. uh oh!! i’m old and single and there’s no doctor to take care of me, no nurse, no seniors home, no one to wait the tables at my cafe, no one to cook at my restaurant, no one to change my diaper….. SANTA – (the one I dreamed of as a kid) save me, saaaaavveee me!!!!
WOW, that’s a bit of a rough comment there. I mean, it’s a bit exaggerated. I really don’t think that “the whole culture surrounding having kids” is pathetic. I just think that the aspect of “over-consumption” is pathetic, and that actually doesn’t have anything to do with having kids or not. I know of tons of childless people and couples that go all out on their TVs and whatever else they can swipe their credit cards for.
November 24, 2009 @ 4:38 pm
The early date for the parade date may not guarantee better weather, but it’s only going to get colder. A November date means that more families will be able to stay outside for the parade. It also makes it easier for the kids who are in the parade. As a business owner, we get too busy in December to participate in the parade.