It’s the holiday season, the time of year when everyone is supposed to be on their best behavior and put up with the most crap from people. Drunk relatives at dinner on the holiday, relatives in jail on the holiday, gossipers, mean spirited people, they all need love during the holidays.

Regardless of the dysfunction in your own family, it’s good form to swallow your pride, show up and smile and make like you like these people. They are after all the reason you are the way that you are, and we’re proud of that aren’t we?

So go ahead and use this post as your personal purge place of all that is your holiday irritation. Something happen every holiday that you’re not looking forward too? We’ll comfort you, share here, we all have that one thing that we know will happen that really gets under our skin.

I’ll start. Growing up, my Mom didn’t express a lot of care, affection or any of that sort of gushiness you expect from mothers that love their kids to death. However, the grandkids are a different story, they get love, gushiness, the whole ball of wax. It grosses me out. I’m glad for the kids, they need it and should have it, so it’s great that she does it for them, I just can’t help but wonder if it’s an act to be accepted.

It just grosses me out. Your turn.

This morning as I was driving to work I saw two motorcycle officers riding side by side in the HOV lane on the opposite side of traffic. I couldn’t help it, I started laughing as my mind replayed the opening to CHiPs – the show from the 80′s about the California Highway Patrol.

LMAO, I can hardly sustain my giggles as I write this, what a lame show that was eh? Preview to Cops I suppose but still hilarious, much like Cops is today, what do you do when you hear Oasis?

All this reminded me of some of the shows I used to watch all the time when I was a kid, great shows that actually had values and morals built into the story line. Not that I’m complaining about the TV of today, but morality on TV is hard to come by these days, I don’t think you’d disagree. Want an example? Rehab on TruTV, WTF?

Take for example, The Cosby Show:

Or, Different Strokes, when they weren’t afraid to talk about spankings on television:

Instead, this the kind of crap we can see, any night of the week:

I’ll stick with watching the Dallas Mavericks.