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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
The hope that I don't have to do it.

And I think I've discovered that fringy is, in fact, Sars from Tomato Nation. From her latest essay:

I think this woman overheard a rant I made about mall music blaring from every individual store to a friend whom I called on my cell while inching out of a parking lot of a mall on Long Island that was already decorated for Christmas on October 23rd.

I do most of my shopping online, so I can avoid the mall, which is a unique Christmas-music hell in that every store has a different song loop, each one blaring out the open front doors and competing not only with each other but with the mall's own PA system, and the mall's mix is extra-heavy on the sleigh bells and psychotically cheery trumpets in order to make itself heard over ringing cash registers, children screaming their heads off in terror because Santa smells like a rum-soaked diaper, rustling wrapping paper, crinkling bags, couples fighting over in-law gifts, the Andrews Sisters, a clumsy woman who just knocked over an entire display of stock pots in Williams-Sonoma with her messenger bag (that happened to a friend), cell phones ringing, screechy teenagers running up the down escalator ...