And while it used to be unusual for people to live alone it is becoming more and more common. Think of divorced parents that maybe this was not their year to have the kids.
Even if you go to church ( and many churches do not have a Christmas Day service only Christmas Eve) the service is only about an hour long at best. What do you do the rest of the time? Clean a empty house? For the love of mercy don't turn on the TV or you will be bombarded by pictures of happy families. You feel like the poor kid with his nose pressed against the candy store window. You can only look but not have.
And some people wonder why suicides rise around this time of the year.
And now that I have gone and depressed everybody, I feel better.
There's been talk on this thread about the great deal that employees will get by getting triple pay, but be assured, it won't be those who are making the highest hourly wages. It will be some apprentice who is at the bottom of the totem pole, with no seniority. She'll have to stand there at a checkout counter without her family because someone's Aunt Tilly forgot to buy Cool Whip the day before.