Being Open or Closed on Christmas Argument Reminds me of my Great Grandma

Every Christmas I like to drive to the Walmart to take a picture of the parking lot. It's the only time of year you find it empty since they actually close down for Christmas.

I found out they do this a few years ago. I had not bought anything for my Christmas meal

so I figured I'd run to Wally world and pick me up something. Well color me shocked when I pulled up to an empty parking lot. What the hell! How is a fat man supposed eat a horrible meal on Christmas when the store that says their open 24 hours is closed! I ended up finding a dollar store that was open so I bought some type of meat product that was two years past it's expiration date.

So each year now, I pick up something horrible to have for Christmas. This year it was low sodium SPAM. God awful. Then I put up my usual Facebook post on the empty parking lot. One of my friends mentioned that a few of the fast food joints were open on Christmas. What the hell! She mentioned that everyone had a kiniption fit when Walmart was open for Thanksgiving, but no one is saying anything about restaurants being open on Christmas.

This brought back a memory from my Great Grandma. Back in the day in North Dakota the only thing opened on Sunday were restaurants. I once brought up the fact that you couldn't go shopping on Sunday. She said that God rested on Sunday and so should we. I then mentioned that I noticed she goes out to eat a lot on Sunday and that she didn't seem to mind that waiters and waitresses worked on Sunday, as long as she got here meal brought out to her.

It seems to be the same type of thinking. Food servers don't count in the eyes of God it seems.