Don’t get me started on the creeping onslaught of Christmas decor, either.

No matter how bad you’ve got it, somebody probably has it worse… and is sick of hearing you whine about your lot in life.

Let this be a lesson, kids: Just because you hung a lampshade on it doesn’t excuse that you did something terrible. But since this joke (such as it was) wouldn’t let me go… here it is, purged from my system at last.