Ray has been ostracised and marginalised again at Clays where he works {NOT for the first time}.
This time it is beacause he has boycotted the 'Secret Santa" Club they have going there this year.
Ray says why should he spend "Up-To-Five-Pounds" (sterling) on a present he doesn't want to give to a person he doesn't like and who doesn't like him and doesn't want the sort of present Ray would buy for them, at the same time wishing them a "Merry Christmas" through gritted teeth, all in November, when we haven't even started Advent? Ray says this isn't why Jesus came in to the world, God made flesh and all that.
He calls the club, "Secret Satan" and now nobody will talk to him or look at him.
"Poor Ray," you may be thinking.
"Well don't," he says. He prefers it that way.