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Locker Talk: What is your least favorite part of the holiday season?

December 1, 2014 by lpahomov Leave a Comment

by Staff Writer Calamity Rose Jung-Allen

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Harrison Freed: “Capitalism.”
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Kai Burton: “Thinking about people that don’t have.” Don’t have what? “Have Christmas. Have a home. Thinking about the people that don’t have anything.”
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Indee Phillpotts: “The people who only care about receiving presents and not about giving them.”
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Chelsea Middlebrooks: “Green and red. Literally, so overused.”
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Gabriel Coplan: “The lack of people doing charity when they keep advocating for it in front of people. Please don’t be hypocrites.”
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Ella Donesky: “I love Christmas, I can’t say anything bad about it!”
Eva Karlen: “Charity organizations that use Christmas as a front for money, then don’t donate to actual people in need.”
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Xavier Carroll: “Commercialism.”
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Joel Johnson: “I could do without the travelling.”
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Teylor Ellerbe: “Not being able to see my friends.”
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Ms. Thompson: “Not enough snow. Correct that, I meant not enough snow days.“
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Miranda Abazoski: “The fact that I make 10 billion Christmas lists and my parents act like they won’t get anything for me, and then at the last minute they do. It’s stressful!”

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