Single Christmas Bells

Single Bells. single Bells, single all the way.. Ok, it's a bad play on words to a famous Christmas tune. But what is the role of the single adult during Christmas season? It used to be considered a sad holiday for those without spouses or boy/girl friends with whom to share the holiday. But that clearly is not the case with most singles today.
Statistics show that about half of all adults in the U.S. are single, meaning there are more single households than married ones here (and in many other countries). Those singles often prefer the un pressured times to the family or significant other pressures that are so common during the holiday season. They do not get the judgmental looks and expectations either. And "no relationship" is always better than a bad or unfulfilled one, especially during the holidays.
Many singles also say it is a whole lot cheaper and budget friendly to be unattached at gift giving time. They instead often travel or spoil themselves by buying a gift for themselves that they may have longed for all year. Single bellers (I made up that stupid phrase, go ahead and shoot me!) also love hearing their married or romantically involved friends tell them "You are so lucky to be free to do what you want at Christmas".
I like the freedom of the single beller existence too and think it is much less pressured than the alternative. I have even heard stories of men or women in unhappy relationships breaking a relationship a couple of months before Christmas to avoid the hassle of a Christmas as a (unhappy) couple routine. The hardest part for the single beller is the perception of parents, other family members and friends that they must not be happy at Christmas because they are unattached.
Hmmmmmm It is often a false perception. Why look at Santa himself. He is so desperate to get out of the house and away from Mrs. Clause that he works himself to exhaustion every Christmas Eve delivering those presents. And the singles always seem to get the nicest ones. Ho Ho Ho, Merry Christmas Single Bellers.
One person Santa won't visit this year (unless he is making stops at city jails) is Eloise Reaves, 50, of Palatka, North Carolina. Eloise doesn't deserve gifts anyway because she is undoubtedly to stupid to handle them safely. I know this because of what Eloise did the other day. You see, she was arrested after complaining to a police officer that the crack cocaine she had just bought wasn't very good.
Haha Let's hope her brain was impaired by the cocaine when she did that, because a more stupid police report could never be filed that that one. But Eloise calmly approached a police deputy at a convenience store, and told him that a man sold her "bad crack" that contained only wax and cocaine. She then pulled the crack rock out of her mouth and placed it on the police officer's car so he could inspect it.
The officer then told Eloise that she was going to be arrested if the crack tested positive for cocaine. It did. She was charged with possession of cocaine and is probably waiting for Santa to bring her a better rock this Christmas so she can get high high high for the holidays....