The Popcorn Stand: Everything seems so cluttered

As I’ve written before the old fuddy duddy can’t handle the intermingling of seasons. High School football practice has already started and school is going to start next week.

And as I’ve already written Balsam Hill has already focused on the Hallothanksmas season by airing commercials about the tradition of Christmas with artificial Christmas trees while it’s a 105 out in the middle of July.

It’s going to be around 105 again this weekend, so starting fall so early while it’s a 105 just doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me.

I’m also having a hard time getting used to the fact the high school football season begins in August. As far as I’m concerned, no high school football game that means anything should be played until September.

Which reminds me of something Pulitzer Prize winning sports columnist Jim Murray once wrote: the World Series should always be played the first week of October.

Of course those days are long gone too. Generally now the World Series ends around Halloween right in the middle of the Hallowthanksmas season.

Society just seems so much more cluttered nowadays with everything encroaching on each other. When I was a kid I promised I would never use the phrase “In my day.”

Well, “In my day” there seemed to be so much more order to everything. High school football practice didn’t begin until mid-august and school didn’t begin until about the first of September. In other words, the summer was still summer and the fall was still fall.

I love fall but even the fall season seems to be all out of whack. Fall seems to begin about mid-october and end around Thanksgiving — right in the middle of the Hallowthanksmas season.

Everything seems just to be a little out of whack these days. I honestly believe I had the best upbringing one could ever have. I grew up in a time where there was just enough technology — but not too much technology — so kids could actually still be kids. I grew up in a time when the statement “the groceries are in the car” by my mom wasn’t an declarative statement but an imperative statement. She wasn’t informing me the groceries were in the car, she was telling me to go get the groceries in the car.

But I’m sure 30 or so years from now, Millennials and Generation Zers will be saying things like “in my day things were so much simpler. We had Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, not all this fancy stuff these kids have now.”

The more things change, the more things stay the same.