It felt wrong at first, because I remember how when I found out the "truth," I was devastated. I couldn't trust or believe for a long time afterwards. I think it marked the beginning of my distaste for authority and my eventual slippery slope of a slide into Doctorate of Jurisprudence.
Me (in 1983): "wait, so there is no Santa Claus? So what about the Easter Bunny, is he fake too? And the tooth fairy? That is a lie. So you lied. You are a liar. And I guess God is a lie too?"
But here I was doing it, and after a few days, it just got really easy, so it was no problem, it was effortless, in fact, when the subject came up last week....
Santa Claus? Oh, well, he is on vacation. You see, he is so tired after Christmas, that he pretty much just takes the month of January off. No one really know where he goes, but TMZ got some pictures of who they thought was him and Mrs. Claus in Hawaii, and it probably was them, they were at a pretty exclusive place, which makes sense because it is a nice time of year there and you know, the North pole is so cold, then he comes back in February and he spends most of that time doing R and D for next Christmas, just checking out trends and projections, and then in March they start to gear up again, figure out where the sales are....
Vacation was all she heard. The rest was just me talking to myself. Santa Claus in on vacation. So was Uncle Gene. So whenever we drive past the one or two hold outs who have not taken down their Christmas decorations, Annabelle says "Santa on 'cation. Uncle Gene on 'cation too."
I guess it is pretty confusing to a little one, because since October, he has been all over the place, and then, pretty much on December 26, he is gone. No more Santa doll at Kroger, no more lights or decorations, no more trips to the mall /gazebo park/HEB and we just happen to run into him. It is hard to understand why we don't sing the Santa and baby Jesus songs any more and hard to understand why baby Jesus is no longer at the Church, especially when one or two losers won't take down their decorations and keep confusing the matter.
getting back to 1983-----why couldn't he have been real?
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