This week I went to a craft store, and when I checked out, the sales clerk wished me a merry Christmas. As someone who celebrates Christmas, this doesn’t offend me, but I do always think about the people who don’t, and how they feel when they hear this (and I’m sure reactions vary widely). But my reaction on this occasion was complete surprise — I cannot remember the last time a stranger wished me Merry Christmas. Most clerk seem to go with the all-encompassing “Happy Holidays.” Then I realized the only things I had in my cart were:

a stocking

3 Christmas ornaments

Christmas-themed cookie cutters

So perhaps this was a clueless, un-PC woman, or perhaps she actually paid attention to the people she was checking out. In the spirit of goodwill, I’m going with the latter. Peace on Earth.