A Rose by any other Name...

Its amazing how giving a holiday a particular name, can change how people behave over huge chunks of time. Case in point, ever since Christmas slipped into view wayyy over the horizon (lets say around late October), people have just been so nice. I'm talking about strangers here, regular random people on the road. People smile at you, they step back and let you go ahead of them in line (this is NOT an urban legend, this middle-aged looking man did ACTUALLY let me go ahead of him at the post office), and you know how when you want to change lanes on the freeway and noone will let you? or when you've missed a turn and you need to get on the right hand lane IMMEDIATELY and noone will budge an inch? Well, since November I haven't had it happen to me EVEN ONCE. And that's saying something. I wish we could just call the whole year Christmas. What a lovely world that would be!