Dear Holly,
There’s a woman who sits opposite me at
work who every year insists on festooning her desk with an array of
cheap, gaudy Christmas shit and gabbers inanely about how she did all
her Christmas shopping online in January, and how she’s cooking for
12 people on Christmas day, and how she’s gone for a real tree
instead of a fake one this year because it looks so much more
‘authentic’, as if that is not unbelievably fucking obvious. Yesterday she turned up wearing reindeer earrings and
tinsel round her pony tail and insisted that I open a door on a
child’s advent calendar. What’s the most painful way to kill someone
with a fountain pen?
Debra,
Macclesfield
Dear Debra,
Are you a Jehovah’s Witness? They
pretend not to like Christmas just like you. A weird, ginger girl in
my class called Caroline Fraser is a Jehovah’s Witness and she
doesn’t get to have any fun at all at this time of year, or in fact
ever. At first I felt sorry for her, because she gets no presents and
has to wear a daft headscarf, but then she told me that her family
will live in paradise while mine burn in hell for eternity, and so,
on balance I can see why they’ve taken that decision. At first I
thought perhaps I could be a Jehovah’s Witness too so I don’t have to
burn in hell, and then I realised I’d be better off joining a satanic
cult because at least then I’d still be able to have a birthday
party, plus, when Armageddon occurs I can make myself useful by
helping Satan to set fire to all the non-Jehovah’s Witnesses. So if I
were you I’d stop wasting valuable time worrying about this woman
and her irritating festive habits and instead start making plans for
the Day of Reckoning before it’s too late.
Hope that helps!
Holly
