- Can't hardly get into the grocery store, all week. Packed with people doing last minute shopping. You'd think there was a hurricane or something.
- Christmas ads have started already. On the radio, the TV, and in the mail box.
- Tacky electronically composed Christmas music plays in the stores. But, employes are forbidden from saying "Merry Christmas" for fear of offending Non-Christians.
- Stores are decorated for Christmas, with tinsel and ribbons and red and white decorations.
- Highways are packed with people going to Gramma's house, or returning.
- People make endless plans to go here or there. Or to invite this or that person over. A large portion of the USA are single and unatached, and promptly go into depressions.
- Suicides and hospital admissions will likely rise. Due to lonely, depressed people.
- Homeless shelters feed millions of people who will be hungry tomorrow, and have no clue how to get a job, manage money, or be self sustaining. The homeless folks are gearing up for winter.
- More driving, and more cooking. Energy use is way up. Price of gasoline goes up.
- Most of the US over stuffs their faces with turkey meat and stuffing, and then goes and sleeps in front of the TV. Would be a wonderful day for a foreign invasion of the US, while all the unorganized militia are sleeping in front of the TV. Red Dawn style invasion would roll right over the US.
- A small portion of the population (typically in kindergarden through 5th grade) does school assignments to list what they are thankful for.