How to avoid holiday shopping stress
I'm no great fan of Inside Edition, that tabloid news show hosted by Deborah Norville, but the local broadcaster shows it right after the local and national news, so I usually have it on in the background as I'm making or serving dinner.
They did a piece on "shopping rage" right before Thanksgiving, and talked about how normally mild-mannered people can be driven to psychopathy by the large crowds, long lines, crowded parking lots and anti-social behavior of people who are doing their holiday shopping. They interviewed some experts about it and offered suggestions for how people could safely avoid shopping rage.
Norville delivered the coup de grace after the piece was over, though, and it's one of the more sensible pieces of advice I've heard this year: Avoid shopping rage by shopping online.