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Last Christmas I worked at the jewelry counter of a local department store. Although it is supposed to be a season of goodwill, Christmas made ordinarily pleasant people pushy and demanding. Once, an elderly woman insisted that I bring out every watch in the stockroom so that she could verify that all the styles were on display.