Where I'm at almost everything except truck stops, a handful of fast food joints, even fewer liquor stores are closed.

My work is an outlier as we are in grocery distribution. We do shut down for major holidays, but a day earlier. So rather than getting the 25th off, I get the 24th off. We load the groceries on the trucks Christmas night and the trucks arrive at their destination early on the 26th. And yes, we are paid well.

Hospital.

The airport. I try to avoid going anywhere that makes people work on Christmas when I can, but the airport is always open and we have people that helped us cash.

I did! I took out the garbage and recycling, and cleaned out the car!

Ran out maybe 500 meters for beer. Otherwise, we stayed in our humble abode and ate. The holiday was the day before with family, so Christmas was the small-but-mostly-traditional Christmas dinner my wife had planned.

Open: stores whose primary business is intoxicating in some way.

Closed: most other stuff.

I overate turkey (cutlets, cause turkey is a pain in the ass when cooking for two), mashed, noodles over mashed, and green beans w/ bacon. Had a couple beers, and a damn good night of sleep.

I’m easy to please, and struggle with sleep, so the whole thing was lovely.

The previous day, we all had breakfast for dinner. I married into a pretty awesome family, but humans are still exhausting so we both wanted to take it easy on the actual day.

Back to work today, but plenty of leftovers and work is just a few steps away thankfully.

All the pubs where I live, I think both the petrol stations. There’s Co-Op up the road that saw a sign on saying it is open 5 til midnight “including Christmas Day”.

I left the house, but only to drive over to my parents' place for food and presents.

On my way over I saw a drugstore and a Burger King open, everything else looked pretty closed.

Xmas was yesterday now for me, but I never went outside the house. I made baklava ice cream and a green chile cheese ball, petted the dog and the cat, wished it wasn't raining so I could take a walk, and my mother bought some sugar that we needed at a pharmacy.

Alcohol. Open.

nope. no idea.

In covid quarantine. Not going out.

It is boxing day here, and we did get a grocery delivery from my family. So someone delivered that. Poor sod.

I had covid (and still have it), so no.