Lifetime ghost of christmas past9/13/2023 ![]() ![]() The people below quickly gathered and shouted out “Jump! Jump!” I wondered what I was doing here. In the Christmas dream I was dressed as the Grinch and stood upon the precipice of one of NYC’s tallest buildings. Where did the time go? This year eternal youth was discovered, and I was 100 years old but now looked youthful. But I figured they weren’t charitable enough. But 20% of the USA population still believed in Heaven at least as a possibility.īut for Christmas people were still charitable and festive. And the Christian roots of Christmas were fading away. And 80% of the populace believed in aliens. And many people claimed to see what they figured were undead souls, haunting them. Androids now had an IQ of 100 so too cloning was now a reality and eternal youth seemed to be on the horizon. Now people could use MRT (Mind Reading Technology) and entertain one another. More people were above the poverty line, but there were still a lot of poor. ![]() “ Of all the spectres I have seen, I fear you the most.” – Dickens, ‘A Christmas Carol’ I said, “It’s a time for romance and parties.” She said, “You don’t look like the romantic type.” I said, “To hell with the bar let’s escape to the Maldives where we’ll get our own island for Christmas.” She said, “I know you are a struggling writer, so the trip is on me.” So off we went, I got my friend Paul to keep the bar going and we arrived on Christmas day. And I added, “I’ll grant you free admission to the bar for one whole year!”Īnd then a sexy woman who asked me, “What does Christmas mean to you?” Then a woman who asked, “What do you want for Christmas?” I said, “I wanted to be surprised.” She said I bought you a case of Canadian whisky and sent it to your address.” “Kind of you,” I said. Some people, think it is romantic, others think it is a giant fraud foisted on the people.” The carols, the festive spirit, the charitable behavior.” I said, “Romance is all in your head. Then a woman who said, “Christmas is so romantic. Over the next week I talked with all sorts of special people. I said, “It’s an excuse for parties and fun. But the Virtual bar was good to meet friends and lovers.Ī week before Christmas I opened and my first customer asked, “Don’t you think Christmas is a humbug?” These days I was an Online English teacher and didn’t get to meet too many new friends. Plus $20 for the joystick, sent in the mail. To get into the bar you needed to prove to me that you were special, and the door charge was $25. You simply used a joystick to move around the bar and could use it to converse with someone. In 2020 as Christmas approached, I set up a Virtual bar because of Covid-19. Then when I was 15, I determined Christianity was all a lie. In my life I have watched it more than 50 times… My father said the film probably did more good, than the Catholic church ever did. I didn’t really care for lit up houses or Christmas Carols.Īnd I didn’t understand the frantic shopping.Įvery year we watched “Scrooge” with Alistair Sim. Festivity was in the air and I went back for 3rd helpings of Turkey as my mom was a good cook. When I was 10, I played Rudolph in the school play and my red nose kept falling off and everyone laughed.Īs I grew older, I sensed that it was truly a spirit of Christmas. I told my brothers, “It is not Santa, it’s Uncle Jim.”īut even though it was a lie, I liked the toys, and we had a lot of them. I remember when I was 6, Santa came to our house. I loved the Grinch.īut then I learned Christmas was all a lie. I opened all the ones I could and remember pulling apart a video tape and having fun with a kaleidoscope.Īnd I thrilled to watch Christmas cartoons. At about 2 am, I snuck down to the basement where we had a tree and many gifts. My first memory of Christmas was when I was 3 years old.
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