Christmas is the best time of year and there’s no convincing me otherwise, but I swear I’m not coming to your Secret Santa or White Elephant gift exchange.
Unless …
In theory, a gift exchange with mixed company, like marital family or friends or work colleagues, is nice. A person can bring a nice giveaway that someone else receives by choice or at random. In practice, it sucks.
As a good and thoughtful person who loves the season so much it will make your mistletoe hurt, I would merrily attend a gift exchange with something really nice for a person to take home. But not everyone is like that. Some people just don’t have the Christmas spirit. It’s not their thing, which is their problem, not mine, and that’s how it should remain. I don’t want those people coming to a gift exchange and messing with my holly jolly. Invariably, they do. They…
