Originally Posted by
sodascouts
I don't like "The Christmas Shoes" either. It's so cloying and emotionally manipulative. Plus, it's full of holes. If I'm dying, I want my son by my side, not off at some store spending his last dime on a pair of shoes I'll only be wearing in my coffin! Plus, you'd think the guy in the song would just give the kid the shoes instead of forcing him to beg. I still cry when I hear it, though, which just makes me madder, lol.
One of my least faves: "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer." Way to crap all over the Christmas spirit.