Did you see any nurses on Christmas Day? Were they cranky?
I discovered that nurses (and by extension many essential service people) were ornery at work on Christmas. Union labour gets a substantial bonus to work on this holiday, and a sizeable number of workers don't celebrate Christmas, yet the ill cheer was unilateral.
Then I also discovered that all the Starbucks coffee shops were closed for Christmas. The nurses were irritable because they had headaches from caffeine withdrawal.
"Could you not make your own coffee on Christmas?" I asked, naïve as some twig-legged fawn in an old Disney movie.
"Ghrrrahrrr!" was the reply.
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