The holiday season has the unique ability to either enhance or destroy the human spirit. Regardless, we can all agree people act a bit strangely from mid-November to the beginning of the new year.
We created this illustrated guide of 10 people who only appear during the holidays. For the other 10 months of the year, these special people live their lives as ordinary citizens: going to work, filling up their gas tanks, paying their rent on time. But during the holidays, something inside of them snaps.
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Scroll through our list and see if you recognize these common holiday personalities. Is there anyone we forgot?
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What is it about the holidays that causes otherwise normal people to roam in packs through neighborhoods singing songs? Imagine a group of people wearing polo shorts approaching your front door singing Don Henley covers in August. You'd call the police.
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An 80-year-old woman punched him in the throat over a discounted Furby today. He's lost all faith in humanity.
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A dedicated energy conservationist during the rest of the calendar year, something deep within this person breaks right after Thanksgiving. She strings her home, her trees, her animals and her neighbors with bright, flashing lights. We should probably sit her down and talk about it, but it can probably wait until February.
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He's been training wild turtle doves for weeks. This fourth grade play is going to blow Cats out of the water.
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You wouldn't snatch a discounted Playstation 4 out of a baby's hands, would you? Of course you wouldn't, and she knows it. That's why you will never get the deals she gets.
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Forecasts are calling for partly sunny skies with temperatures reaching 50 degrees. He's gathering firewood from his neighbor's lawn to survive the afternoon. He will eat you if he has to.
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Everybody has a friend that, come December, pulls some insane skill out of his hat. Often, this skill involves a winter sport. "Greg, what are you wearing and who taught you how to ski? Aren't you from Miami?"
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These devilish little crews exist in only two places: Les Misérables and the electronics section of Best Buy. They speak in thick accents and stole your credit card five minutes ago.
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Perpetually there to remind us of the precipitation we can already see, this holiday mainstay will post four statuses and six tweets every hour until the last snowflake hits the ground. We thank her for her dedication.
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He knows if you've been bad or good and can see your Google search history. This list wouldn't be complete without jolly ol' Saint Nick.
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