Hey, Hey, Hey! Christmas music starts on the radio Wednesday!

[rurallib]

You have been warned!

[Cereal Killer]

1. I went to

home depot last week and they had Christmas trees up on display.

[lunasun]

2. Not on my radio

[rurallib]

11. they will get you and make you surrender!

[elleng]

15. Nor mine!

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[SouthernLiberal]

3. AARRGHHH!

That makes me glad that the radio reception in my home is horrible. I love all of the fall and winter holidays, but I strongly believe in leaving each on to it's own season. For Halloween, I'll play a little spooky music. But not a single note of Christmas music until after Thanksgiving dinner.

[cemaphonic]

4. It would be ok if it was good Christmas music

Traditional carols or thematic classical music like the Messiah or Bach's Magnificat.

But instead, we get 2 months of shitty novelty songs from the 50s-60s because Baby Boomers just love their childhood nostalgia.

[SouthernLiberal]

14. Not all Baby Boomers

I was born right in the middle of the baby boom. I never liked novelty songs. Even so, I think 2 months is too long!

[doc03]

5. Oh no I have to hear Little Drummer Boy again.

[Initech]

7. If they play "Mary Did You Know", some is going to patch a hole in my drywall.

[longship]

9. PRUMM, PRUMM, PRUMM, PRUMM!!!

Arrrrrrgh!

[Initech]

6. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

[pansypoo53219]

8. remember when this music was confined to TWO DAYS???? i refuse to go where music is played once it

starts. GAH!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

13. Uh, no, but as long as you're here, what were dinosaurs really like?

Okay, that wasn't nice. Anyway....

My family's first foray into the wonderful world of stereo was a Zenith (I think. Magnavox? Capehart? I can't recall.)* console with AM and FM radio and a record changer. You'd flip the needle over for 78 or 33. It had 45 too, but I can't recall which needle position that was. We bought it before the standard for FM stereo had been set. The AM and FM tuners, accordingly, could be tuned separately. In case FM stereo broadcasting took the form that one channel was on AM and the other on FM, we were set. That's not form it did take. We never did get the FM multiplex adapter, so mono FM was all we had. Stereo records could be heard properly, but my family never did cotton to paying extra for the stereo versions of albums, nosirree.

The console never saw use except between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Then, we'd break out the Perry Como, Texaco, and Norman Luboff Choir albums and listen to Christmas tunes for that stretch of the year.

The radio stations - AM, well before the advent of talk radio - adjusted their programming accordingly. FM? There wasn't anything there.

So at least in the early 1960s, we listened to Christmas music starting right after Thanksgiving.

I was checking my Christmas lights earlier today. In just three days, November will be here.

I still see those albums, horribly scratched and priced as collectibles, at yard sales.

* Just as Wonder Woman has her lariat and Popeye his spinach, I have Miller High Life. After just a few sips, I was able to recall that our console was a Stromberg-Carlson.

[SamKnause]

10. Being agoraphobic has its advantages.

I never have to hear Christmas music.

Rarely leaving my house limits my chances of random Christmas music assaults.

The occasional commercial on the Internet (I use AdBlock; works great) is my only

exposure to Christmas music.

I am pro Christmas.

I love the beautiful decorations, especially the lights !!!

I just don't enjoy Christmas music.

[Rhiannon12866]

12. Hallmark Mysteries and Movies started showing Christmas movies on Friday

I'm used to switching to "Monk" or "Murder, She Wrote" when the news gets to be too much. I started doing that during the campaign, figured once that was over I'd never have to see or hear from Trump again.