Winter Fun

Nothing says Holiday Season as well as the Salvation Army member standing next to his or her collecting box with Christmas carols coming full blast out of a speaker system straight from the eighties. They are indeed today's town criers, alerting the people that for the rest of the month shopping on Saturday equals death by human stampede.
I did manage to come out of it alive, carrying the items I needed, picking up P. from the station in the process and even managing to find an extra gift from Saint Nick for my littlest niece, who doesn't have a pseudonym yet, for she is only one month old.