Tom Griswold won't go to a gas station if there is a fuel tanker there and when he is in a hotel he puts the TV remote in a ziplock bag to protect himself from germs, but he is a very funny guy.
(Noun) - Someone who gets possessed by the Christmas Spirit and enjoys it a little too much
(Verb) - its the act of getting way too into Christmas, including decorating your house in an obscenely obnoxious way or traveling out to the middle of no-where to cut down an oversized Christmas tree.
John realized he went Clark Griswold on his house when he could see the lights from across town.
A major oversight or obvious err in judgement or planning. As in the movie National Lampoon's Vacation, the Griswold family drives cross-country to Wally World theme park to find that it was closed. Or, failing to see an obvious easier route, short-cut, shorter line or less crowded approach to anything while preoccupied following the masses. "Stupid tourist, sheep, rookie mistake".
After spending nearly an hour looking for parking, Ves realized his Griswold mistake of shopping at the mall on the weekend.