It's beginning to look alot like xmas....but where is the xmas cheer?

I'm looking around and everywhere you go there are reminders that Xmas is very near. But no one seems happy. Santa at the local shopping centre is a grumpy old man this year, there are people looking very angry in the shops and pushing their way through the line ups, kids are on holidays and fighting amongst each other already and the crime rate around here is making me feel like I am living in the centre of a ghetto! Well that may be a little bit of an exaggeration...or maybe it has taken me this long to see how miserable the lead up to Xmas is for some people.