Why The Accelerated Holiday Rush???????????????????

                               No one loves the Holiday season better than I, having been born just prior to it, after all.  But this year takes the cake.

                                "The Nutcracker" is already performing at the New York State Theatre, at Lincoln Center.  The Neapolitan Tree is up and showing at the Metropolitan Museum Of Art.  I just found out that this evening--THIS evening--the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree will be lit.  Hey, between that, and the firing of Matt Lauer, don't you DARE go near that sure to be overpopulated area!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                   Added to this, on Fifth Avenue, in my neighborhood of Bay Ridge, my quiet little hamlet, the overhead decorations above the street have been up since late October! Late October!

                                   All these Xmas events used to take place early in December. People were allowed to get through one holiday before segueing into another.

                                    But once Halloween comes, it is just one big rush through all the holidays, and to end the year!  Who has time to take the time to enjoy anything?????????????

                                    Is it money?  Well, of course.  But things  have gotten so out of control, propriety has gone out the window!

                                     Why, I bet, right now, at Macy's Santaland, hidden behind some pillar or post, the Easter Bunny is now lurking, awaiting his turn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!