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Journal nizo's Journal: Hot for santa 10

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Well took the kiddo to see santa last night. Waiting in line was a real treat,
with dozens of sugared-up kids running amok like a troop of chimpanzees.
My favorite was the couple in front of us who kept saying, "We can just
leave anytime if you don't behave, we don't have to see santa, etc." I
think their threats lost effectiveness about the tenth time they made them.

I think there must be a special place in heaven for people who work as
santas in the mall. The idea of letting a million germ infested whiny
kids sit on my lap while wearing a suit that must make you hotter than
baking in the sun in the sahara would be my personal idea of what hell
must be like (the only worse job being a character at Chuckie Cheese
Pizza). Oh and only in New Mexico would you see a "santa habla espanol"
sign :-)

Anyway, I was worried the munchkin wouldn't take to santa so well (she
is 18 months old now) but she did great. We only wanted to take pictures
to give out as gifts and she didn't seem bothered by sitting in some
weird guy's lap, though she had a hard time not gawking around at all
the bright shiny things instead of smiling for the camera. I felt bad
because we had to turn off santa's fan to keep the kiddos hair from
flying around; how he kept from just keeling over from heat prostration
I have no idea. His beard was real so he had to have been at least in his 60s.

Well the pictures came out good, and after leaving a pile of money and
a note promising my left kidney to the photography company we left with
some great pictures. Ahh the wonders of Christmas.

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  • Next year ... (Score:3, Interesting)

    by tomhudson ( 43916 ) <barbara.hudson@ b a r b ara-hudson.com> on Tuesday December 14, 2004 @06:59PM (#11086992) Journal
    ... why not, instead of waiting in line forever, leaving a pile of money, etc ... , have one of your friends dress up as Santa for the pix, etc. I did the Santa routine one year - it was fun for everyone.

    • Re:Next year ... (Score:3, Interesting)

      by nizo ( 81281 )
      Hey not a bad idea, if we got a few friends to go in on it we could rent a santa suit and do this (probably cheaper). Though it really wasn't as bad as I made it seem, it was something like $20 or so. Besides, we would have missed out on waiting in line :-) (Which wasn't too bad either, since we went on a Monday night at a mall that is about to go belly-up). Interesting idea however that I will have to contemplate.

    • Re:Next year ... (Score:3, Informative)

      by Ethelred Unraed ( 32954 ) *
      have one of your friends dress up as Santa for the pix, etc. I did the Santa routine one year - it was fun for everyone.

      Whoa. An atheist Santa.

      *bdzzzt* I think my brain circuitry just shorted. ;-)

      (For those who weren't aware of it: Santa Claus comes from Sinter Klaas [www.sint.nl], the Dutch "St. Nicholas" [msn.com]. St. Nicholas in turn was a bishop in Myra, in what's today western Turkey, and is the patron saint of mariners, merchants, bakers, travelers, and children.)

      O kom er eens kijken, [liedjesland.com] wat ik in mijn schoentje vind.

      • Re:Next year ... (Score:3, Informative)

        by tomhudson ( 43916 )
        Don't forget that Christmas was really a pagan holy day - the cult of Mithras, tree worshiping, sex, etc ... well, they got the last one right - not much else to do to stay warm on a cold winter night way back when.

      • Re:Next year ... (Score:2, Informative)

        by jawtheshark ( 198669 ) *
        Well... One thing I want to mention is that many kids are scared shitless by Sinterklaas. Well, not really by him. In contrast to the nice elfish helpers of Santa, Sinterklaas comes with a bunch of black guys (that's wouldn't pass in the US, simply too politically incorrect) that throw around candy. However, if you weren't nice these bastards can put you in the Bag and take them with you to Spain.

        I practically peed in my pants when going to Sinterklaas when I was a kid... I knew I hadn't been nice...

        • Well... One thing I want to mention is that many kids are scared shitless by Sinterklaas. Well, not really by him.

          It's really not that different in America. There we have Santas in shopping malls with these huge, imposing "castles" (they seem to get bigger each year, too). Basically you stand in line, then walk all through this slightly intimidating complex to get to this big bearded guy (often a tad grumpy) sitting in a throne, and you sit on his lap. Then he asks you if you've been a good l'il boy.

          Som

          • Well, I did guess that... but I was really convinced that the Piets would take me away from my mommy. Let's just say that I took that very seriously...

            Let's just say that kids would be the same way scared from the American Santa, than kids would be scared from the grumpy old rich uncle that lives in his mansion and is only visited once a year (at Christmas) At least, I see it that way.

            Alas, I fear that Sinterklaas is dying (netcraft didn't confirm it...yet) Kids are incredibly confused due to televis

  • Oh and only in New Mexico would you see a "santa habla espanol"

    Sorry, not only in New Mexico. While not as big as yours, in the burbs of DC we have a gi-normous spanish speaking population and almost everything is bilingual.
    • While not as big as yours, in the burbs of DC we have a gi-normous spanish speaking population and almost everything is bilingual.

      Yeah. Over here in Krautland, Santa even speaks Turkish. So there.

      (Ironically the proto-Santa was a Turk himself, so to speak -- St. Nicholas of Myra. Maybe that's why he wears red and white? [globosapiens.net])

      Cheers,

      Ethelred

    • Yeah actually I figured other places (Florida comes to mind) probably do have spanish speaking santas, but I have to admit DC isn't one of the places I would have guessed had a large spanish speaking population. Interesting.

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