What Does Christmas Mean To YOU?

Here's a new spin on it - I am not going to say much, I am going to let you dear snarkfans tell me what Christmas means to you.  I think it might combat some of the bah humbuggery going around the Main Line this holiday season, as for many it is a tough year...especially if they can't  (or won't) admit it.

Of course there are some others who are just idiots no matter what the season, but there is no help for the delusional unless they want it.

What am I talking about?  Why the people who presume they still matter. The ones who were embroiled in some super scandals in their day who think because some will now speak to them again that they matter.

They don't.  It might be Christian to think they also deserve the blessings of the season too, but let's not get ahead of ourselves, shall we?

Then of course there are the people who have gone out of their way to hurt others during the course of the year - where do they sit at Christmas?  What does Christmas mean to them? What will Christmas mean for them?

My comment is truthfully, Christmas on the Main Line used to mean a little more - as in you used to find it a little more O. Henry and a little less Henry Bendel or Neimans.

Christmas on the Main Line even in this economy is more about the excess then the actual meaning.  Christmas to me is all abut friends and family and the simple gifts.  Considering how much of the Main Line I think is broke and just putting on a front - you know like during the Great Depression - maybe simple is better.

Other then that I can't decide how I feel, other then tired and a bit jaded and am glad 2010 is almost finished.  I will be looking forward to the promise of the new year and 2011.

The floor is now open. And one last thing?  Here to remind you of what love and the season should mean, here is O.Henry's The Gift of the Magi (click on this to read)

The magi, as you know, were wise men--wonderfully wise men--who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents. Being wise, their gifts were no doubt wise ones, possibly bearing the privilege of exchange in case of duplication. And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house. But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

Nothing Says Christmas Like a Hit and Run in Wayne

The local paper says (in essence) that  someone's grandmother was mowed down near 384 W. Lancaster Ave in Wayne, so was this poor granny leaving or entering Ristorante Primavera?

Yes, nothing says Christmas like a hit and run.  What is wrong with people that they don't stop?  Can't slow down and are always in a god damned hurry?  Can't stay off that crackberry or I-am-important phone for five minutes? Someone is DEAD, doesn't that matter?

Of course we are lucky this doesn't happen more often because face it, the holiday traffic is horrid this year, and Wayne is a state of chaos - and let me tell you - a lot of that chaos has been near the new White Dog Cafe (those youngsters  sure can't hold their martinis), so I hope those bartenders know how to cut off drunks, don't you?

I am appalled that this hit and run is but a teeny little mention.  It seems to me that other hit and runs get more attention.  Maybe Radnor doesn't want to admit these things happen in the Main Line Glocca Morra?

Radnor police ID elderly pedestrian killed by car and ask for witnesses

Published: Thursday, December 09, 2010

Radnor police are asking for help from the public, specifically anyone who might have seen a woman killed by being hit by a car Sunday night on Lancaster Avenue in Wayne.


Police identified the woman as Mildred A. Heintz, 78, of Horsham. She was struck near 384 W. Lancaster Ave. in Wayne Dec. 5 at 6:38 p.m.

Heintz was taken to Paoli Hospital where she was pronounced dead from her injuries. The driver was a 53-year-old man from Wayne.

Anyone who might have seen the crash is asked to call the Radnor Police Traffic Safety Unit at 610-688-5605, ext. 276 or 103.

Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Dickheads

I have noticed that there are a lot of men with very bad manners living on the Main Line.  So I thought of that old Waylon Jennings/Willie Nelson song.

It's holiday/Christmas party season and that means 'tis the season for ass grabbing and all that lovely fun, but seriously, all that aside?

There are just a lot of rude assed men on the Main Line. Married, single, old, young, many could do with a sit down with Miss Manners, Emily Post, Dr. Ruth and Steven Treat! 

There!  I said it and I feel much better.   I suppose the Main Line is like some twisted Noah's Ark where these men are the perfect match for a lot of these Main Line bitches....