i can deal with familey, and even the occasional "friend" i havent seen for a while.
for me, its the masses and hords of people with nothing else to do since bussiness and schools are closed, all spilling out onto the streets, and into stores all in a rush and trying to push in front of you weather its on the street or in a shopping line.
between this and the social pressure to spend more money than you have or will have in the near future on stupid crap that will be played with and then shoved in a closet after a couple weeks, between these two things alone, i LOTH Christmas as a whole.
thanksgiving is the perfect holliday.
the capitalist machine has stolen Christmas from us, from its true purpose, and transformed it into a commercialized super bowl of hollidays. and the masses obey because the television tells them too. worked for iraq, works for christmas. all hail the shiny box.......