12 Biggest Jerks of Christmas
Love your enemies. Of any other time of the year this saying should be most closest to our hearts. Yet despite the yuletide spirit that pervades the air this time of year, there still are those who persist in being a pest and pain not just to you but to the world in general. I'm talking about the those we refer to as jerks (a.k.a. bozos, stinkers, cads, finks, heels, slime-balls or creeps). In case you didn't know Christmas for jerks is a grand opportunity to up their game. What better time of the year, when there are so many pressures and obligations weighing on people already to really crank up the torment and send someone into a seasonal nervous breakdown. The fact that we can make it through the holiday season, having dealt with so many disagreeable people should not be taken for granted as one of the great miracles of Christmas. We owe our survival in part to the lessons we learn from the Christmas movie classics we watch this time of year. While most Christmas movies (the good ones anyway) are often thought of in rosy terms, we often forget the very common struggles most of our holiday hero's go through in these films. They face many of the same trials we face around this time of year: including annoying relatives, crazed consumerism, and most importantly the seasonal jerks that come along this time of year. The main character in most Christmas movies always faces off in one way or another with a colossal jerk. Either that or the main character himself is a jerk who must undergo a dramatic transformation of some sort by the end of the story. Whatever the case, whether in dealing with jerks or being one yourself, we come away from these films learning that how to deal a little better with those who would seek to make our Christmas no so merry or bright.