'Tis the season to be a jackass...

It's funny how life works. Birthdays are a celebration that many hate. Halloween is a holiday where evil ideals such as death are rewarded with sweets. Christmas, the birth of Christ, the day that the mortal being of Jesus Christ was born just so happens to be the time when people are the biggest a-holes to all that come within a specified radius.

Determining the radius, or rather, radi-ass, is rather simple:

Note:

Brow and cheek slumping determine said radius

Objects (people) are denoted as 'X'

• Divide pre-brow by pre-cheek slump
• Multiple the girth of X by the remainder of Pre-brow/Post-brow slump
• Add the square root of Pre-cheek/Post-cheek slump to the product of Pre-brow/Pre-cheek slump
• Subtract the number of days to Christmas

There's your radi-ass.

All of which I preach on this blog has reached a true test. I honestly never realized that Christmas, my favorite holiday, would be the time I would have to work the hardest to practice what I preach. 

I find myself on the reactionary side, getting very angry with people. Every time I leave the house I am finding myself fighting more and more to remember that I have a choice: react emotionally or move on logically. 

I'm learning more and more that very few people think proactively. School does not teach us to think of why others act a certain way. Truthfully, how could any one teach that? It wasn't until I started teaching people how to use technology that I realized people  getting mean and rude about the subject I am teaching is because they don't get it and don't want to appear stupid. It's 100% human nature. I have always done that myself and I never realized it or really knew why. 

It may not be an answer as much as an observation, but people act the way they do at Christmas out of worry of letting down someone they care about. Or at least, that can be most of the reason. Some, I assume, shop because they don't want to hear someone else whine about it.

The above formula takes time to perfect and is highly scientific. Use it with caution.