Christmas comes to Kroger

I had a wonderful time over the Holidays and now that it's finally Christmas I'm looking forward to a little bit of calm. Sunny and I drove from Hot Springs to Tulsa, from Tulsa to Harrison, and from Harrison to Hot Springs, then from Hot Springs to Clarksville and from Clarksville back to Hot Springs all in a week. I like to drive but enough is enough.
I do need to confess though that a few days before Christmas I had an euphoric moment of Christmas cheer. Believe it or not I was at Kroger (a giant grocery store) and when I arrived I prepared myself for the normal pushing and shoving and grabbing and greed that is so pervasive in any retailer at Christmas time. As I walked through the parking lot on my way toward the store I looked up and a woman was coming out the door. She made eye contact with me and smiled brightly and said, "merry Christmas". To which I replied, "merry Christmas to you". The music inside the store was not Janet Jackson Strips To Your Holiday Favorites, it was an actual choir of Christmas carolers singing Christmas music. More than that, everyone I passed looked me in the face and smiled and wished me a merry Christmas without grabbing products from my cart or reaching over me to snatch away the last tin of spam spread. I started to look around for the candid camera host, but as it turns out it was an honest to goodness moment or Christmas spirit. A Festivus miracle.