My Creative Writing students spent the last few minutes of our class before break decorating the board with their own additions to E.B. White’s “Christmas Greeting.” The “Holiday Season” annoys me to no end, but every once in a while, I find something I like about it.  This piece is one of those things.

Merry Christmas to uncertified accountants, to tellers who have made a mistake in addition, to girls who have made a mistake in judgment, to grounded airline passengers, and to all those who can’t eat clams! We greet with particular warmth people who wake and smell smoke. To captains of river boats on snowy mornings we send an answering toot at this holiday time. Merry Christmas to intellectuals and other despised minorities!

Enjoy your time off, students and teachers!  Enjoy your higher salaries, businesspeople and lawyers!