I haven’t experience an interaction with an accusatory ‘Merry Christmas’ person, mostly because that would involve interacting with people, which is right out. But I’m pretty confident that my response would be to stare at them as though they were insane.
Make that three Jews with one opinion - oy vey, someone check the temperature of hell for snow and ice!
Add me as another Jew who agrees. Happy Holidays has always included New Years.
Some More News (aka “Cody’s Showdy”) on the War on Christmas.
On a related note this week a woman going through my register line kept going on and on about “there’s no Jesus in the store. I can’t find Jesus.” After the second or third repetition I figured out she meant nativity scenes. I have no idea if we didn’t stock them or we were sold out.
But I still had to bite my tongue because what I wanted to say was “Do you want me to page him for you?”
Not that it would have done any good - we do have a couple guys named Jesus, but they’re on the night shift stocking crew and this was around 11 am.
I don’t think “retail establishment” is generally considered a great place to find Jesus. I’d have been tempted to suggest she look in a church or homeless shelter, instead.
Not many modern churches he would want to hang out (no pun intended) in either.
I seem to recall He got kind of pissy about the practice of selling things in a church.
I work in a store owned by observant Jews, and customers do say “Merry Christmas” and even mention Jesus quite regularly One regular customer even hands out Chick tracts!
One aisle has Christmas items on one side and Hanukkah on the other side. People put Christmas in the Hanukkah, but never vice versa. The Hanukkah items are now 50% off, as the holiday is over. Twice I’ve had customers tell me that the Christmas items should be on sale too. I tell them to come back on December 26th.
I picture two guys wearing yarmulkes and paying close attention to minor details.
As opposed to observant Catholics, who pay close attention to minors.