One holiday season not many years ago, I was shopping (you know where) for my traditional black turtle neck.  Nearby, was a rack of those holiday sweaters that you or I would never wear, but an elderly woman was looking through them.  Her husband was standing next to her and she asked him,”Do you think this one would look nice on Ruthie.”  Without missing a beat, he replied, “Yes, I do, but I think it would look really pretty on you.”  Just warmed my heart to be in the presence of such a man.

On a much less-charming note, you could be certain that some company would take the awful Christmas sweater to the next step with the following, which I spotted this morning: